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While a lot of people have moved out of metro areas, I don't think many have done so permanently. Why spend 1000s on a small apartment in the city all alone whe

While a lot of people have moved out of metro areas, I don't think many have done so permanently. Why spend 1000s on a small apartment in the city all alone when you could ride out the pandemic at your parents' in a large suburban home? Maybe some people with families already may choose to stay in their new suburb. But young people will come back. Why? Because a large city is one of the best places to look for a partner. Or put more succinctly, people want to fuck. It might take a while for more young people to flood in, and in the meantime rent prices might dip, but I'm confident people will want to keep fucking in the future. So as long as that's there, I think cities will recover :)

Yetanfou 6y ago
That's a strange way of looking at things in the age of Tinder. In other words, you do not need to live in the city in order to be in the city every now and then. Those who have found out they can enjoy the positive aspects of cities without having to endure the negative ones will be hard-pressed to voluntarily subject themselves to a life of high rent and high crime, all in order to get laid when they realise they can get the latter without having to endure the former.