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I strongly agree with your last paragraph. It is a very bad habit, from within the event, for people to conclude that everything has changed, that this thing,
by foobiekr 6y ago
I strongly agree with your last paragraph. It is a very bad habit, from within the event, for people to conclude that everything has changed, that this thing, which is ephemeral, will have the particular long term impact that the authors are wishing for.
There may be long term effects, but ... In the valley, the number of people I personally know who are moving - not talking about it, actually moving - out of the city, in particular, but also out of the peninsula, is actually quite surprising. But I saw this happen in 2000-2002, as well, and half of them moved back by 2004.
- ne9xt 6y agoThe housing market in the Santa Cruz mountains is exploding as people from the city are buying homes in the mountains, enabled by WFH policies.
- arcticbull 6y agoYeah, though, once offices reopen and the remote employees are being passed over for promotions and raises, I suspect they'll be back right quick.
- recuter 6y agoIf the difference in cost and quality of living this enables is sufficient maybe fewer people will chase promotions.
- ghaff 6y agoOr maybe people will decide that as long as they can afford to live in the Santa Cruz mountains, all the office crap doesn't really matter very much. More generally I expect a lot of people are rethinking their priorities.
- randycupertino 6y agoHeck, even single family homes on the Peninsula and in the East Bay are flying off the market as people leave the metro areas and look for places with yards and pools.
- foobiekr 6y agoYeah. I've been strongly thinking it's time to sell my house in the peninsula.
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