Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them

Re:Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking... by wasdfff on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:47PM (#20904902)

I dont think I could ever move back to the midwest. Spent a couple years in columbus and that city gets old pretty fast. Either you pay 1.3k a month to drink in a 4 story apartment complex with thin walls and a pool closed for 8 months of the year, or you live out in white bread suburban hell until you are in hospice care. Not for me.

Where I’m at now is probably the most multicultural city in the americas. You see signs in all kinds of languages on a daily bases. Neighborhoods actually have striking character. There are interests I have here that I could never pursue in any other city. There’s also the weed, the weather, the fact that ambitious transit is actively being built, and, my god, the FOOD. My ashes will be scattered across the santa monica mountains.

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Re:Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking... by burntoutfire on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:04PM (#20906141)

> or live out in white bread suburban hell until you are in hospice care

Funny how 95% of world population would be ecstatic about moving there, yet you describe it as hell.

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Re:Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking... by patthebunny on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:45PM (#20911609)

Feels like a pretty drastic over estimation.

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Re:Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking... by burntoutfire on Sunday September 08, 2019 @03:31PM (#20912814)

US is one of the very few places in the world where most people live in their own house, even if it's in "hellish" suburbs. Outside of US, even in first world countries, most people live in flats. Also, majority of world population live in flat out third world countries, and for them, moving to a "boring" (safe, clean, reasonably well designed, consisting of polite/civilized people, having working, high-quality infrastructure etc. etc.) US suburb would be a huge improvement.

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Re:Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking... by patthebunny on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:54AM (#20929589)

> Outside of US, even in first world countries, most people live in flats

That's where the overestimation comes in. You assume people are miserable and would rather live in a ridiculous house and have to take a car to go do anything.

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Re:Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking... by selimthegrim on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:53PM (#20905757)

New Orleans would like a word.

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