The article actually missed one angle: increasing cost of living. It's not just that prices are dropping for services like food/trasportation/etc, but that it'

The article actually missed one angle: increasing cost of living. It's not just that prices are dropping for services like food/trasportation/etc, but that it's happening while rent prices are going up. If anything, local service prices ought to be rising along with rent. It's doubly striking that they are dropping.