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Blecher_onthe_Hudson t1_j8les2p wrote

Reply to comment by DeepFriedAsses in Remote Work Is Costing Manhattan More Than $12 Billion a Year by Jahooodie

I'm sure it's going to seem counterintuitive to you but cities are actually quite environmental, can you imagine the landscape if everyone in New York City actually lived in single family suburbs?

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DeepFriedAsses t1_j8m1ce7 wrote

I’m aware, thank you. I don’t see where I suggested single-family suburbs, but I totally get how my comment implies that. Rather, it’s great to see the outer boroughs and JC thriving as opposed to a few Manhattan neighborhoods. Plenty of people still enjoy living in cities for residential and social reasons even if they don’t need to commute to a central business district for work.

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Blecher_onthe_Hudson t1_j8n2x3n wrote

Ah. That's kind of old news actually. In the late '90s there was a lot of breastbeating about Manhattan becoming unaffordable to the middle class. We now live in the result, the resurgence of JC, Brooklyn, Queens, and even the Bronx to some extent. I actually had a letter to the NYTimes published predicting exactly this.

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