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Don't forget about the poor local businesses. Someone needs to pay to keep the executives' lunch spots open.

Well, not if rents crash because all the offices moved out from the area, and the lunch spot can afford to stay open and lowers prices.

We don't talk enough about how the real estate industry is a gigantic drag on the economy.

Hey now. Little coffee shops and lunch spots and dry cleaners are what make cities worth living in in the first place.