http://dagblog.com/link/there-s-exodus-star-cities-and-i-have-good-news-bad-news-34268 Comments for "There’s an Exodus From the ‘Star Cities,’ and I Have Good News & Bad News" en http://dagblog.com/comment/305433#comment-305433 <a id="comment-305433"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/there-s-exodus-star-cities-and-i-have-good-news-bad-news-34268">There’s an Exodus From the ‘Star Cities,’ and I Have Good News &amp; Bad News</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Before Covid, these cities were<a href="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/managed-obsolescence-homelessness-in-americas-gilded-cities/"> "America's gildest cities."</a></p> <p>Covid shut down all but essential work so that the cities are now filled with people who can't or won't leave. I can say that downtown SF, always filled with strange people, suddenly had a bit of an old west vibration. I was working a job there and was struck by how harsh the roughness of its occupants was - it felt like the whole city was now homeless. Unlike Seattle or Portland, SF was aware of how screwed up it can be and is able to deal with it.</p> <p>On the other hand, people were really friendly. Not what you would expect from such a rough exterior. Once industry is started up again like it was before Covid, we will see what superstar cities are like. California lost a full half percentage point of population in 2020 - My wild guess is that a considerable amount of people won't return.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 15 May 2021 17:04:41 +0000 Orion comment 305433 at http://dagblog.com