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Remote work is gutting downtowns
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Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#122perfect setup for Sunk Cost Fallacy on a massive scale
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to get the bus to work about 10 years ago because parking in the city became so expensive (I stopped long before Covid hit). The thing I don't miss is that I got sick every single Winter. All it takes is one inconsiderate person to not cover their mouth and everyone is getting ill. And it happened all the time . I had a commute time that ranged between one and two hours over that stretch as I'd lived in a coup…
> The thing I don't miss is that I got sick every single Winter. All it takes is one inconsiderate person to not cover their mouth and everyone is getting ill. And it happened all the time. Give it a few years without exposure, and you will have very hard time if you have to get exposed again. I did 2 years for remote work with a single day with long exposure each week, after a few years with low exposure. I then had…
There is no scientific basis for this assumption (the idea that you rake in immunity "debt" by not getting sick, leading to worse symptoms /when/ you get sick).
Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#124We built downtowns like deserts, rather than mixing housing, commercial, and office space holistically.
Chicken coming home to roost.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The thing I don't miss is that I got sick every single Winter. All it takes is one inconsiderate person to not cover their mouth and everyone is getting ill. And it happened all the time. Give it a few years without exposure, and you will have very hard time if you have to get exposed again. I did 2 years for remote work with a single day with long exposure each week, after a few years with low exposure. I then had…
Nah, its just what happens when you have a kid. I was exposed all the time commuting to work on public transit. Once my kid got into preschool I was sick for months at a time.
It's hard to explain the near exponential increase in pathogen exposure when 20+ kids are in a room doing the least hygienic things imaginable for 4-8 hours a day.
I rode the subway every day for years and rarely got sick, but a few weeks of a kid in daycare and it was all coming at me at once.
Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#126No problem. Convert those commercial spaces to residential. There is a major housing shortage.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
A place where people live.
I'm not from the US - what is downtown used for today?
Predominantly, downtowns will have a financial, medical, and government district.
Government: police, city hall, courthouse, administration for city, county, state, and federal agencies.
Medical: usually a major or university hospital with various outpatient services in nearby.
Financial: banks, banking services, property and financial services.
Typically, just these 3 things were enough to compromise over 50% of commercial downtown properties. We're not even approaching cities that have a major HQ or specialty (manufacturing, tech, media, print).
For a lot of cities once a major tenant moved out, they really only had government and medical as the city's economic engines.
My city I've watched transform from being a violent, crack infest dump to a very desirable, fair weather place to be. And because of the loss of so much commercial business in the 90s they managed to avoid the glut of commercial properties. We pivoted to residential/mixed-use development in 2003 and it's really paying off now.
Our downtown doesn't do anything in particular (except maybe crypto) except be a place for socializing.
Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#128It doesn't "cost" them that much if they never had that money to begin with. If I give you $10 every month and then I stop for a month that doesn't mean me not giving you $10 cost you $10.
People are still living they are just doing it somewhere else and the money will follow.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids[1]. [1]: https://youtu.be/N1KvgtEnABY
I guess a lot of people got triggered by the first words and never finished reading after the downvote. Such an amazing movie...
The downvoters know the truth. rbanffy, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, rbanffy, __children's_ice_cream__.
You know when fluoridation first began? Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, rbanffy. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Re: Remote work is gutting downtowns
#130Gooood shit.