They figured they might as well save money and move back home with their parents until everything opens again. Then they'll probably go back.
I suspect things will pick up in SF as the bars and clubs and restaurants open again.
If 10% of the people don't come back, then prices may fall 40%.
It's a tough game things like this happen. My feeling is that we haven't even begun to see the beginning of this.
During the pandemic, this agreement has been broken, which has created a feeling of being cheated out of an agreement (despite the caveats above). It’ll be interesting to see if people will be excited to return to normal once this is over, or if people will re-evaluate whether they’re getting a good deal.
But then again, I suppose I'm biased by living in Boston, which... kinda hates fun and wants to make sure you go home early.
Miami closes at around 2AM (generally).
It's night and day.
It makes me miss the random industrial city in another country I lived in for my MSc. Admittedly, that's one of my favorite cities period, but it had night-owl bus lines, including BRT. You could go out at 20:30, stay out until 04:30, and get home at 5:45.
Why not just say Haifa?
I mean, come on. Are they shocked? Or is this how the townies want it? My impression is that quite a lot of the "natives" who think of themselves as "True Bostonians(TM)" (ie: not just those of us who've lived here for years, married someone raised here, and own property here) want this place to be the world's most populous (but rather restrictive) college town.
Why would they want more people around to ruin their city by walking around doing things? Come, spend your money like a tourist, fuel their businesses, get your degree if you're one of those workaholic nerds, and get the fuck back out. You can come back eventually if you manage to make the tenure track!
Massachusetts is overtly hostile to anyone who does not step in line the way a good well behaved cog in the machine should. Making it hard for people to stay out late and get drunk is just a specific instance of that.
When you picture the state as being run by a committee of stodgy puritanical authoritarians who live in Lincoln and Lexington it all makes sense.
Source: Native Miamian.
The Vegas strip is open 24h. NYC isn't.
Smoking, gambling and open liquor is about the extent of Vegas. It gets boring after a weekend there. Obviously if someone is dependent on any of the three it is the best place ever.
If you're like me who doesn't smoke, hate the smell, gambling is just $100 for entertainment value and drink beer while eating dinner it isn't the place to be at. This is generally what I hear fellow millennials once they visit.
There's clubbing, lots of high end dining, shows galore, Red Rocks for hiking and climbing, each casino on the strip is a spectacle, old Vegas, shooting ranges, etc. Most of those things costs a fair bit of money but are well worth doing.
I still love living in the city. Wouldn't move to the burbs if you paid me.
The remark was ironical.
When I worked in SF, one left the city when they had kids, and one bought a house, but they just enjoyed urban living, being able to walk places, have lots of services nearby, etc.
A few were part of a family where their kids were born there and were in school there, or the grandparents were nearby.
This was particularly eye opening: “For every 100 apartments in the city sold at market rates, the San Francisco school district expects to enroll only one additional student, the report said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children...
Reasons I moved:
- restaurants
- bars
- concerts
- larger dating pool
- greater LGBTQ acceptance
- close proximity to international airport
- can walk almost everywhere
- I find most american suburbs to be depressing
I am in my mid 30's and moved here about five years ago and I wish I had done it in my 20s. I hope you find a place you can enjoy!
I once met someone who was a lawyer who lived in Manhattan and worked in Princeton, NJ so his daily commute was Subway to Grand Central, Train out to NJ, bus to his work.
And look at all the people who live in SF and commute out to the South Bay for work.
Personally I'd never suffer that kind of commute and I live in Manhattan precisely to get my commute to walking distance but to each their own.
There will probably be some shift back, but I think after all this remote work will be a more permanent option for a lot of roles.
If you're able to get the same higher salary, but remotely somewhere with a more affordable cost of living, and aren't in that area specifically for in-person amenities, why wouldn't you?