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Nope. Still love New England - and seeing the shit shows in other states, I’m happy to be here.
Longer term, climate change is going to make New England even more attractive so even if I go elsewhere temporarily, I am definitely holding on to my real estate here.
People who are leaving the city solely based on the fact that restaurants are closed, or feel there is nothing to do, no events, etc. are exceptionally short sighted. There is a swarm of people moving to the “burbs” and overpaying for homes there. It’s very 2016 (minus covid). In about 9-12 months you’re going to see everything opening back up (offices included). The city will be alive, and everyone who moved out will start to get bored of their limited choices for dining and entertainment and starting coming back into the city. If you want to move for other reasons, do it. If you want to move because the city “sucks” right now, just give it time.
That 9-12 months is very optimistic. I don't see offices opening in anywhere near full or required capacity for at least 2 years.
Even if a vaccine is developed in the next 6 months. Producing, distributing, and administrating vacancies to every American will take forever (esp once you count in the anti vaxx crowd). If after it all settled down people want to come back to the city people are always renting and building new places in Boston. I don't see anything going back to complete normal ever but maybe semi normal in maybe 5 years which is a long time to wait it out in the crowded city where parking a car is practically a car note in some parts.
I live in the city, about a mile walk from the office. We used to love living in the city but the calculus has changed. The tradeoff to small living space, noise pollution, traffic and lack of green space was offset by being walking distance to work, great array of restaurants, pubs, cycling studios, and relatively low crime. Since Covid, the city is just not as appealing. Besides the obvious effects from the shutdown and looting, there is a tension and crime is getting worse. Still love New England but a place like NH is looking more and more appealing.
K1 - we're exploring the idea of a NH ski house. Would love to have a weekend or remote work getaway place. We're thinking Sunapee just because it's relatively close and has the summer activities centered around the lake as well as decent skiing (admittedly not as great some of the bigger mountains in NE).