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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.

For decades people from all over the country, many of these small towns moved to places like NY, Chicago, SF etc. and the respective suburbs in search for better jobs, opportunity etc. It didn't seem like it was a big concern then to anyone that the locals in these cities could be negatively affected by higher rents, home prices etc. Why is it different when the reverse happens?

If its ok for a young person to leave their hometown, move to a city and call it home to make a better life without thinking about the locals, then it must be ok for a person with a small family living in a city to move to a smaller town and call it home to make a better life for his/her family.