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Do you think people will move back once the pandemic is over?
by aantix 6y ago
Do you think people will move back once the pandemic is over?
- HenryKissinger 6y agoNot all of them.
- 121789 6y agoYep, I think the vast majority will. Many companies are allowing remote work for the rest of 2020 with no change in compensation. Once that ends, I'd expect people to come back. I think probably another driver of the decreased rents are the recent college graduates that had no reason to move to SF once the virus hit and everything closed. I'd expect them to move to the city once things get back to normal
- crooked-v 6y agoOn the other hand, there might be a fair number of people who move to comparable but much cheaper locations (and given the insanity of SF, that includes most other major US cities) while still trying to work remote indefinitely.
- neilparikh 6y agoYup, I suspect many of those live in SF want to be in a city rather than suburbs, but they're not tied to SF specifically. They just choose SF because that's where the jobs are, and would just as happy in a different urban area.
- claudeganon 6y agoI moved out of LA the fall before the pandemic, but I’d move back in a heartbeat if there was a vaccine and lower rents. It ended up being a very smart move for my partner and I to skip town when we did, but we both miss the city every day.
- rabidrat 6y ago"over", hah. All signs point to COVID-19 becoming endemic within our (US) population, like the flu already is. Even if we develop a vaccine, chances are it would not grant long-lasting immunity, and chances are even better that some significant fraction of the population would refuse to get it for partisan reasons.