The investment angle is definitely one way of selling it. As a native resident, I have been around just long enough to fully grasp the boom-bust cycle and what

The investment angle is definitely one way of selling it. As a native resident, I have been around just long enough to fully grasp the boom-bust cycle and what it means in a broader sense. The city is in wildfire season, and will again rise from the ashes. Just give it a few years to start recovery in earnest. For now the streets are emptier, and a little less safe. Our last boom, for all the downsides of gentrification and transience that it wrought, added another layer of cosmopolitan influences which has helped defuse old local tensions. While the local leadership isn't doing everything right(as we'd expect), they aren't actively moving in the wrong direction either - they are working reasonably quickly to address and attempt solutions for each crisis as it comes up, and indeed, the crises of 2020 have been hugely transformative for the city already, leading to a whole new set of traffic and transit policies, reforms in law enforcement policy, and more. It won't be long before the officials have to start choosing between making cuts to essentials and throwing out old pork constituents, and they have a riled up, locked down population watching every move. The only thing I'm truly concerned about is the state and national situations falling into the kinds of scenarios Robert Evans depicts in "It Could Happen Here".