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Our cities are going to be so sad after all of these changes. Knowledge workers are all going to be in the suburbs or working from home. Restaurants and bars
by nostromo 6y ago
Our cities are going to be so sad after all of these changes. Knowledge workers are all going to be in the suburbs or working from home. Restaurants and bars will be shuttered en masse. Parks and shopping plazas will be empty. Trains and busses will be ignored in favor of cars.
This really does look like it could be the end of new urbanism and the revenge of the suburbs.
- mcfunk 6y agoSeems a bit extreme. Plenty of people (younger people especially) prefer living in a city regardless of where they work.
- nameless912 6y agoCounterpoint: as a late 20something software engineer, I'm taking the opportunity to work remotely as motivation to move to a (cheaper) city and live right in the heart of downtown. Now that I can choose where I work, I can move to a city I love that's a bit cheaper than my current location, own a house in an awesome neighborhood, and hopefully take much more advantage of what the city has to offer. As of now, I've done very little exploring in my current (very large) city because 1) I live on the outskirts to be able to afford my rent, 2) I had to drive almost an hour each way to get to work, and 3) I was so "busy" due to my commute that I was exhausted in the evenings and busy with keeping the house in order on the weekends. Frankly, working remotely is giving me the opportunity to actually participate in the city culture I wanted so badly, but on a scale that's much easier to digest and enjoy.