Whatever Happened to the “Magnet Cities?”
COVID19 has opened our eyes to a new possibility. Give people a choice of where to live – one that does not depend on where they make their living – and they vote with their feet for lower density, more green space and, most of all, for affordable costs. It has become clear that the celebrated “magnet cities” are threatened by their own success. They are dangerously overcrowded. They are vastly over-priced for all but the most over-paid. That’s why San Francisco and Manhattan have only half the number of children per household as the US metropolitan average, while suburbs and e