Re:Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
by a3KEaWOcZr on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:43PM
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What's a city/small town culture go to do with it? Whether its a city or a small town, if a local lived their entire life (perhaps generations even) in a place and due to high demand was priced out, its the same. Saying its unfair if it happened to me in mountain ski town but its OK if it happened to someone from the Bronx is just hypocritical. Sounds more like I care about this now because its happening to me.
Whether you like it or not, the pandemic happened, technology has advanced, there was high demand in the cities for decades and now its subsided a little and the smaller towns have some higher demand too. Only difference the culture of the city/small town makes is how welcoming/indifferent they are or how much harder they will make it for the new comers.
The cultures of small towns really don't have much elasticity nor are they expected to have it. People don't like change and normally no one except other small town people come in.
Cities are generally something that people rotate through in huge numbers. Cities are always changing while still keeping some on the side as a homage to their identity. For the most part though they are always in flux by nature. NYC is not the same as it was 10 years ago. ________ NY, largely the same for the past 200 years is suddenly changing radically in the tech WFA renaissance. There is no doubt in my mind the council will be hi-jacked if it hasn't already - some of those ordinances are "a little out of touch for modern living".
Anyway, before I rant too much, my point is that comparing the elasticity of a city's culture to the rigid and fragile cultures of small towns is ridiculous.