Been thinking about this - An old friend who is a NYC lifer (in his 50s) who lived in NYC during 9/11 remarked to me he feels it will take the city overall much longer to recover from the pandemic. The way he said this stops you in your tracks.
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Replying to @semil
IDK, having read Frank Snowden, Laura Spinney and Frank Snowden’s books on the history of epidemics and society, cities come back. Can’t beat the velocity of ideas in cities. On a relative basis, remote work may close it somewhat. Still not fast enough.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
he didn’t say it wouldn’t recover. this is more about a feeling in 2001 compared to 2020.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @semil
Could be faster if feds chose to help states and cities, which typically have to run balanced budgets every year and can’t deficit spend for longer periods of time.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @semil
Trump moved to Florida. If you think about the SALT tax, the GOP has a political incentive to see less wealth and population in cities.
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Right it’s not their base so why do they care?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @semil
Conversely, people become more conservative as they leave cities (on the margin) so they’ll recruit voters as people leave cities.
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Don’t think that’s necessarily true if suburbs are becoming less white at a time when the Republican Party has abandoned trying to appeal to non-white votershttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/upshot/all-white-neighborhoods-are-dwindling-as-america-grows-more-diverse.html …
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