I’m skeptical that there will be dramatic changes post-COVID.
We’ve been bombarded with news stories and think pieces about how COVID is changing everything about how we work and how we live, but most people are excited to return to their pre-COVID normal life ASAP.
There are scattered anecdotes about people using COVID to move out of big cities and take up simpler lives working remote, but I also have scattered anecdotes of people taking advantage of the situation to move to big cities and get high paying jobs due to the post-COVID job boom. Housing and rent prices are skyrocketing and lumber prices are up because demand for housing and new construction, including in big cities, continues to increase rapidly.
The articles about how we were all going to flee bug cities and work remote jobs after COVID were premature.
We’ve been bombarded with news stories and think pieces about how COVID is changing everything about how we work and how we live, but most people are excited to return to their pre-COVID normal life ASAP.
There are scattered anecdotes about people using COVID to move out of big cities and take up simpler lives working remote, but I also have scattered anecdotes of people taking advantage of the situation to move to big cities and get high paying jobs due to the post-COVID job boom. Housing and rent prices are skyrocketing and lumber prices are up because demand for housing and new construction, including in big cities, continues to increase rapidly.
The articles about how we were all going to flee bug cities and work remote jobs after COVID were premature.