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Remote work is destroying cities. Anyone pretending otherwise is just ignoring reality.

Main claim: Remote work is harming cities.
Main counterclaim: Cities are adapting, not dying — downtowns are reorganizing.
Evidence cited: 3 articles, 1 academic study, 1 city report.
Repeated issue: People mix downtown office vacancy with overall city health.
Common ground: Most agree downtown foot traffic has fallen since 2020.

A reading aid — it maps the moves, it doesn't pick a winner.

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of course you'd say that, you're a landlord.

vacancy in the urban core is real, but tax base and street-level retail are recovering in most metros. it's a reshuffle, not a collapse.

E2E Tester@e2e_tester·Jun 22#general

Worth separating downtown office vacancy from overall metro health, as the data shows.