re: There are now over 13,000 empty apartments in Manhattan — an all-time high

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I fricking hate it and I'm glad It didn't happen to me for all this.

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It gives me an excuse to be a lazy piece of shite and look at the internet all the time. I love it. Granted, I was doing that before this all happened, so not much has changed.

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I think someone made this comment on the poliboard:

"DeBlasio has done more damage to NYC than Osama bin Laden"

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That was me.

I have a petroleum engineering degree

I don’t feel sorry for you a bit

CM degree alone should open plenty of doors. Just gotta re-evaluate maybe.

Not for nothing, but Manhattan has always had the best gender ratio if you're a single dude and can afford it.

And we're not talking OT 4's either.

Will be interesting to see how that's impacted.

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Will be interesting to see how that's impacted.

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I think more people will leave earlier in their life
Like instead of getting married and spending some time maybe have a child there for 1-2 years, they’ll get married and move to NJ,CT, LI or Westchester

more younger people right out of college , especially those that start on a Wall Street with lower paying jobs and have to have a roommate or 2

Then again I could see younger people completely ditch Wall Street jobs because the pay is shite, the work life balance sucks and it’s not the Tech companies

No one wants to live in the suburbs when they’re 20. Young people want to live places where they have easy access to food and nightlife because they want the chance to meet someone of the opposite sex. Big cities with jobs and relatively safe neighborhoods still offering that experience will still be desireable after Covid. However, cities which do not, will not be. I don’t think we’re about to see a major shift in urban to suburban for twenty-somethings, but we may see a big shift in what cities are the trendy cities to move to.

For the last 10 years, Austin, Portland, Seattle, Denver, Brooklyn, and Nashville have all been super trendy. I can see some of those continuing to boom while others are replaced by new hip places.

The reality is that high population density, walkable cities with diverse restaurants and thriving nightlife in relatively safe neighborhoods will always have an appeal. Suburbs are only good for raising children to send to public schools.

I think the real shift will be families to rural small towns where their parents or grandparents grew up or tourist sites (beach towns and ski towns). Most suburbs only exist to provide public schools for those who need convenient commuting to big cities. Without the need for that commute, these communities have no other purpose. I think many over 30 will start returning to small rural towns and certain small towns will become trendy as young women look for a “Hallmark Christmas Movie” lifestyle.

A lot of small towns are depressing, but having deep roots in a community is a really underrated perk, especially once you start having kids.

Is 13,000 in a city of 8 million a lot? NYC is a shite show but that doesn’t scream huge number to me.

If remote working becomes the norm, I can see thousands of people buying an RV and setting up shop wherever and whenever they want.

As long as you have internet, you can work from wherever if working remotely becomes acceptable across various sectors.