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Even with a massive drop in rents, rents would still more than cover development costs. The limiting factor isn't the cost to construct high density housing units - it's the difficulty of getting permission to build high density housing units.
The permission (via zoning and permitting) is part of the cost.
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From personal experience, I disagree. You're assuming we cannot carry out non-well scoped work just because we're remote? The project I'm currently leading definitely gives lie to your assumption, and I'm a member of an offshore team. I'm not saying that projects with substantial manufacturing components don't benefit from proximity. Also, those project you mention had huge political issues (not great examples). And…
Your personal experience may have been different, but it does not change the fact that almost no major commercial product has come out a fully-distributed company. Individual anecdotes that support one case or another are easy to dig up, but you would be hard-pressed to find large pieces of really innovative software products developed without people in close proximity (you could claim that the Linux Kernel is a big…
Claim I agree is there are no (financially) large and successful software companies have been fully distributed from the ground up.
Which is very different from the claim I strongly disagree with which is: only routine, well-scoped work has been successfully carried out by offshore teams.
I DO agree that there's an advantage to on-site work.