>>We are watching the death of American cities. I doubt many businesses will return. There will be an exodus from cities. People who can afford to leave will leave. They have already been doing it because of high taxes. For those that have not left, what did those taxes buy?
I saw book collector stores move out of town decades ago as their owners migrated to the rural areas of the state. There was a network of book searches that bookstores would do so their clients could still buy books from them, they were able to avoid skyrocketing rents/taxes and live a relaxed bucolic life.
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I can see that. They probably didn’t understand that books contain knowledge.