> I think it is only a few terminally online people that object to this. The reality of the matter is that the insane population growth of the 20th Century led

> I think it is only a few terminally online people that object to this. The reality of the matter is that the insane population growth of the 20th Century led to some pretty haphazard development (e.g. CDMX’s never ending sprawl). This has made areas with livability amenities (e.g., walkable safe neighborhoods) relatively rare all things considered. For various reasons, certain areas with good amenities remained isolated from broader real estate markets (e.g., living in CDMX would seem laughable to an American in the 1980s based on crime statistics alone). Because of COVID, a lot of those areas are now a part of larger real estate markets. The people who live there now realize that they can’t afford the prices that the larger market brings, so acting in self interest, they try to remain isolated from the market. (In the vein if SF experiencing the worlds problems a decade before anywhere else) This is basically the story of SF’s Mission district over the past 20 years and why you’d see ridiculous things like people protesting new development because it had floor to ceiling windows. It’s a weird phenomenon, but one that most people on this forum can’t really relate to.