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Yeah I "am worried" about NYC. The decrease in office use maps to decrease in "I have to live here because of work" just as the eroding quality of life is decreasing the "I live here because I want to."

So the trend over time will be that folks left in NYC are increasingly poor with no other options, completely eroding the tax base and sending the city into a spiral. I didn't live here in the 70s but I expected something similar.

In the early 2000s-2010s there was an interesting trend of adults moving to the city and raising kids there vs the burbs. I think that's over and done with, everyone with money and energy seems to be moving to the burbs if not to Florida.