[raiyu]

Basically a summary:

1. Focuses mostly on Nashville

1. Cities that have a young urban population with job creation that isn't tied to old industries are thriving.

2. Nashville has no State Income tax, and most cities and states that have no State Income tax are doing well as remote work takes over and tech workers relocate to take advantage.

3. Mention building a convention center for $600MM but no real numbers on what that had to do with the cities expansion. Uncorrelated at best.

4. One major change was the overhaul in zoning regulations that allowed developers to build vertically to accommodate a growing population. Perhaps an parallel to what is happening in San Francisco.

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Summary: The economic turnaround from the recession has unevenly favored cities that are tied to non failing industries in decline. Seems pretty obvious.

[cwp]

Alas, an overhaul in zoning regulations is decidedly not happening in San Francisco.

[TallGuyShort]

Sounds like #3 is cited by entrepreneurs in the article. Not sure that remote work is common enough yet to be having a significant impact, and I'm not sure how remote work would affect it more than other jobs would...

[elhudy]

Isn't part of the purpose of the article that: in order to "catch up", lagging cities would need federal intervention.