[ichabod1]

New York is at a relative advantage, despite losing a chunk of its financial engine, because the jostling proximity of architects, fashion designers, software writers and other creative types will reenergize its economy.

MAjor barf alert. Isn't this what "that man" is all about? Creating a depression so all their maoist ideas can be foisted upon us? B@stards!

[DB]

That fact is the Internet (really data communications) allows people to leave the cities and continue doing their architecture design, fashion design, software writing anywhere they damn well please.

I did it more than 20 years ago and I’m not going back. I know others that have done the same.

[Darren McCarty]

Richard Florida

That's all I needed to see. He's the major founder of the "new urbanism" and "creative class" junk that is all the rage these days.