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>Simply speaking, my gut tells me this isn't just about San Francisco. It's not. I live in the Northeast and it seems like every day on the local news there i

>Simply speaking, my gut tells me this isn't just about San Francisco. It's not. I live in the Northeast and it seems like every day on the local news there is a story about businesses and residents fleeing NYC. 5 months of WFH (and knowing a lot of people personally touched by Covid) is starting to reshape a lot of attitudes about what is really important in life. It's also opened a lot of eyes to the fact that company culture and organizational inertia were the main impediments to remote work, not technology. I don't think the genie can be put back in the bottle.

PhoenixReborn 6y ago
NYC being a large city, the story is slightly more nuanced than that. There has definitely been a large exodus from Manhattan and Brooklyn, but less so from Queens (where I live, and which was much less tech-centric even before the pandemic). That being said, I do agree that the genie probably can't be put back in the bottle and there will be an at least semi-permanent shift of people away from cities.