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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by txcwpalpha on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:32AM (#22526188)
Many people, especially more recent generations, would happily choose the studio apartment downtown over living in the suburbs even if they worked from home all the time. In my remote job, I personally see the requirement to have more space for a home office as a burden rather than a benefit.
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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by philwelch on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:32PM (#22526734)
Yeah, most people eventually outgrow that.
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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by txcwpalpha on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#22526786)
Not sure why you think this. Recent trends have shown a massive influx to urban cores, including those of older ages that have families. It has nothing to do with "outgrowing" and everything to do with the fact that people no longer romanticize cookie cutter suburban neighborhoods like they used to. If anything, society is "outgrowing" suburbanization.
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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by philwelch on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:37PM (#22528266)
Nobody ever romanticized "cookie cutter suburban neighborhoods", they were just a refuge from crime, vagrancy, and the high cost of living in urban areas. All of which are factors that led me to no longer romanticize cities the way you do. The Bay Area might be an exception because not even the suburbs there are affordable, but at least in the Seattle area there's a definite lifestyle split between families and single young men.
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