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NYC is doing great, as are quality-of-life focused cities like KC, Miami and Columbus.

Maybe calling every critic in your town names and letting QoL go to absolute crap is the real driver of movement.



By what metrics is NYC doing "great"? The amount of crime and visible urban decay/blight seems just as pronounced (in Lower Manhattan) as it does in San Francisco


>The amount of crime and visible urban decay/blight seems just as pronounced (in Lower Manhattan) as it does in San Francisco

The crime/urban blight angle is a red-herring; It implies that there was anytime in the last 30 years that New York/San Francisco was anywhere nearly comparable to a city like Tokyo.

Manhattan is already seeing a net influx in people moving back into the city.[1]

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-covid-recovery-nyc...


Name an intersection- I’m all over town and things seem normal downtown. Times Square has gotten worse I suppose.


By rent inflation?


Those cities are also not reliant on one market sector that has happened to have a spectacular 20 year run. I guess Financial Services might be the closest thing, but there's a lot more to NYC than Wall Street.

The comparison to Detroit seems apt. When the automakers scaled down, there was no "Plan B" and the city leaders were too incompetent/corrupt to actually lead.




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