“...set far from urban jobs.”
Bloody European moron. Companies seek out stable individuals who are willing to work.That means young families with children, Christian, educated.
These companies are not locating in liberal hellholes populated by head-bangers, with three inch steel washers hanging from their tongues, a severe case of herpes and a barely functioning cocaine-addled brain.
A tour of nearly any American liberal city reveals giant clusters of shuttered factories, crumbling infrastructure and boarded up downtown districts.
Exurbia is the new America. Why would Americans move to the city so they can drive to their jobs in exurbia 30 miles away?
This guy is a moron.
You're right. Most of the journalists and economists who are speculating that suburban land prices will drop must live in the city themselves. In Buffalo, for example, out of 550,000 jobs, only 50,000 are downtown. I suspect that's a fairly common percentage among medium-sized cities.
Most jobs in America are now in the suburbs and people travel from one suburb to another to get to work and home again. Downtown is a place to go for the occasional night out. I think the speculation has gotten ahead of itself.
What does being "Christian" have anything to do with it? The coastal Northeast and the Pacific Nortwest are thriving with educated people, even though both regions are highly secular and have large populations of nonChristian faiths.