folks, if you're seeing this, feel free to DM me candid stories of what you're seeing on the ground in DC, LA, SF, and NYC, the true "national metros."
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yeah, they're truly in the front lines. the us is such a threadbare, make-on-demand operation that even the slightest shock will break it. no norms of civic cooperation (except in rural communities like my hometown, which shut down well in advance of this)
i really think if and when this is all said and done, there's going to be mass internal migration...to mid-size cities from big ones, to suburbs from mid-cities, and to rural areas from the suburbs. a post ww2 anti-cooperation sprawl
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NYC, no matter how gussied up or gentrified, is always one minor spark away from a Snake Plissken situation
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if that means all the transplants leave NYC to us New Yorkers.....I'm OK with that! Those of us who were born here would love to have our city back
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which is totally fair, i'd say. returning to my home region was the best move i ever made, in every sense
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Agrred. I was starting to have a really strong urge to move out of my city a few months before this all started going down and there's never been a better example of "trust your gut"
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there are no services there you can't duplicate with amazon. sitting in a restaurant and eating brunch? being an "author?" i can do all of that in the pittsburgh suburbs. i could do it in harpers ferry, wv.
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