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    Quote Originally Posted by Newpublius View Post
    Read one article where 40% of the population of Manhattan (Manhattan, not all of NYC) has left due to the pandemic.
    The question is whether they will come back.

    New Orleans lost a million people after Katrina. But the majority of those on welfare who where dumped in other cities like Houston.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    You haven't been to the burbs then. There is exponentially far more to do in Rural America than there is in the Urban Cities. Far more. Far safer. Far cheaper. Far cleaner. More friendlier. Better schools. Cheaper taxes. More responsive government.

    I lived in the city while in law school and a few years after. I moved back to farm country in 91 but still have a Cleveland and Akron office.
    Farm country isn't what I call the burbs. Suburbs are the areas at the fringes or just outside of the city with nothing but residential housing and shopping malls.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Farm country isn't what I call the burbs. Suburbs are the areas at the fringes or just outside of the city with nothing but residential housing and shopping malls.
    They still have lawns, back yards, fresher air, quiet... in the burbs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    By the same token, suburbia hasn't exactly been a barrel of laughs either. I think people living in the burbs have even less to do than people in cities.
    I think it depends on where the burbs are located. If they're outside a large metropolis on the east or west coast, that might be true, but in our nation's heartland, people have been ignoring a good amount of the shutdown guidelines since they started, meaning families have been barbequing with the neighbors as the kids all swim in the pool, and the majority still won't don a mask to go grocery shopping.

    Then there's me -- life hasn't changed much for me, because I work from home anyway, but I did start picking up my mom's groceries so she wouldn't have to go shopping. We have committees and groups that have still been meeting in homes, but now we're dealing a bit differently with elected officials since our governor isn't allowing large public meetings. Last weekend we boated and water-skiied for the second time this spring with our friends and the lake was pretty busy. Lowes has been packed from day one.

    With all the rioting, I think folks are forgetting about the virus -- or just choosing to ignore it.
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