This is a rather unique situation that only benefits a small fraction of people in the US. The article is mostly focusing on trends in the American midwest, and

This is a rather unique situation that only benefits a small fraction of people in the US. The article is mostly focusing on trends in the American midwest, and the effects of people being priced out of superstar cities and forced to stay where they are where the CoL is still reasonable because they did not get in on the bubbly pyramid scheme soon enough.