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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Value of your real estate will go down as people flee to the suburbs.[/quote]

Nope.  Keep dreamin'.[/quote]

If COVID has shown us anything, it’s that we don’t NEED to live in crowded cities to do our jobs.

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?

We have just witnessed the apogee of urban living. It happened in January of 2020. Nowhere to go but down [/quote]

My wife's firm was about to move 800 employees from NoVA into DC. After the triple wammy of covid, BLM, and DC violence increase, they have as of last week told these employees to expect to work from home potentially forever. So, you may not visibly see DC "shrinking" but DC is losing a LOT of potential growth to its mismanagement and poor policies[/quote]

I hope someone from that firm is doing Mayor Bower's office the favor of letting them know this, and exactly why they changed their mind about the move.

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Let the press know too. Seriously. No tax base = no services[/quote]

My company has its office in DC. We may not renew the lease for same reasons. I personally will not go down there again as it’s too far and too many homeless begging, too many foul smells, too many Metro or traffic delays and honestly the restaurants are nothing different. Different names but same food types and quality. Yes, it’s nice to walk to places but too many cars competing with bikes, motorized scooters, and pedestrians, and too many crowds. Also, the homicide rate is far higher per capital in DC than in Nova or MD suburbs. In fact, if you look at city rates vs. suburban the stats tell the story that cities are more dangerous. The gap is closing in many cities, but violent crime rates are still higher.  https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0526_metropolitan_crime_kneebone_raphael.pdf [/quote]

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