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>>> NYC real estate is arguably one of the safest bets in the modern era.

Respectfully disagree. All it will take is 1 dirty bomb going off in manhattan to make parts of the city unhabitable or unsafe.

If and when that happens, it will be pandemic-level exodus. NIMBY and all that

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Considering NYC recovered economically from 9/11, which made parts of the city uninhabitable. I don't see this being as big of a concern, though it would be tragic if something like this happened.

Random cataclysms are not something you factor in to normal decision making. So, yes, Google's decision is a safe bet.

There are leaps of logic and then there are Olympic somersaults.

A dirty bomb is not the same as a nuclear bomb. It takes a nation state to build a proper nuke, but some random terrorists could cobble together a dirty bomb.

Regardless, nobody plans around for it. It doesn't make any sense.

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