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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't assume childless high earners are going to shut up and accept living in a city in decline. Eventually you get sick of having your packages stolen all the time, having a local gov that is unresponsive and works against your safety interests (Charles Allen), having a uniquely horrible USPS problems in DC proper, having homeless encampments everywhere, seeing drugged out zombies loitering near your library, fearing that your car wheels are going to come off overnight, etc. You don't even realize how this all weighs you down until you have a few months away from it all.

Let's see how it all shakes out over the next couple years. Telework is here to stay. I don't know how that would NOT create an impact on the downtown long term. There's less incentive to put up with the above nonsense when you can commute 1-2 days a week.  [/quote]

Sorry, but these singles are bored stiff when they get out to the 'burbs or the sticks. It's one thing to spend a month at the beach in the summer.....but it's A LOT more isolating to spend the year there. The young & childless crave socialization and that doesn't happen in a meaningful way outside the cities.

DC, NYC, LA, Boston, Chicago, etc has ALWAYS had homeless, drugged out mental cases, and petty theft. It's a part of city life, even if unsavory and undesired. These complaints have been on Popville for the last 15 years.

As we say: "Welcome to the city, transplant."

The young and childless will keep coming here. Those with means will insulate themselves in nice parts of NW DC, MoCo, and NoVA. All your complaints have been apart of city living since.....forever. [/quote]

Yep, and people smart enough to remain childless are also smart enough to realize that the incredibly minor inconvenience of the occasional missing package and the infinitesimally small statistical likelihood of being a victim of violent crime as a relatively wealthy professional are peanuts compared to the actual, real, daily downsides of the suburbs.

Only the most myopic and hysterical residents are going to seriously think "You know what seems better than spending 5 minutes requesting a refund from Amazon twice a year? Exiling myself somewhere to spend hours a week in my car, far from nightlife and culture, so that I can occupy a giant house that I don't need and will have to waste even more time cleaning and maintaining."   [/quote]

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