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Then the jobs will move to where the people are.

A community near me is booming because telecommuting makes it practical to commute to NYC by train twice a week. Eventually that will lead to new business and economic activity. We shouldn’t be screwing up property rights everywhere because tech companies are too stupid and have too much dumb money to geographically diversify and prefer to pay too much for talent instead.

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It doesn't work like that. Stockton and Tracy aren't magically experiencing a jobs boom because we forced all the poor people to move there.

No, that region is over cooked and at capacity.

IBM, GE and other legacy technology companies demonstrated in their heyday that you can run engineering organizations in all sorts of places. Mainframe tech was done in Binghamton, Kingston, and Vermont of all places.

What property rights are violated by blocking an apartment building from being built on a vacant lot? The rights of the owner of the vacant lot.

Out of migratory curiosity, what community?

The one my friend was telling me about recently was Catskill, NY. It’s about 30-40 minutes south of Albany. Some of the market attracted to Columbia County is crossing the river.

It’s a struggling area with a lot of nice cheap property, both in and out of town. The Hudson Amtrak is about a 15 minute drive and 2-2.5 hour trip to Manhattan.

IMO Upstate once you get out of the Hudson Valley is relatively cheap and nice.

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