Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron about people getting out of Florence because of the plague in about 1353. Florence is still very much a going concern an

Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron about people getting out of Florence because of the plague in about 1353. Florence is still very much a going concern and I think cities are not going away. Many cities are quite safe, schools are what people want them to be, and they're also much better for the environment than suburbs. People did not "flee Rome to Gaul and Britannia" for a bit of fresh air - they conquered those places at sword point.