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WookieMan says

I think urban exodus is going to be far greater than people realize.

True, all things being equal. But the trending ban of personal cars in the name of "going electric for the environment" will pull people back to the cities. When private cars are unaffordable, people will need to live near work and shopping. Unless the electric car mandates are hard removed, we are at the end of the golden age of personal transportation.

AmericanKulak says

That's why Obozo wanted to end Zoning Laws and have Sec 8 projects in Suburbs.

Section 8 is already everywhere, including the suburbs. Back in the 1990s when I had rental homes that were nice 3br 2,5 bath 2 car garage in a newer subdivision, I was approached to do Section 8. I declined. Most Section 8 is low end homes owed by slumlord Dems because it is more profitable, but much higher end homes are permitted.

Jerry showed us all just how fucked up people are.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Jerry showed us all just how fucked up people are.

Or
That people like watching freak shows.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Jerry showed us all just how fucked up people are.

It started that way. Then it moved on to actors and/or people taking advantage of incentives (hotels, restaurants, cash) to pretend they have a scandalous story. The show got totally out of hand towards the later years.

The urban exodus will exclude those who have sec 8 HUD paying 90% of their rent.
Government workers and geezers without money will also stay put.

BayArea says

It started that way. Then it moved on to actors and/or people taking advantage of incentives (hotels, restaurants, cash) to pretend they have a scandalous story. The show got totally out of hand towards the later years.

The problem with shock is that you eventually bore the audience and can't top the last show.

People have always liked freak shows and drama, nothing new under the sun. People brought tickets to see "Glenn or Glenda?" in the 1950s in your downhome small town theater. I remember some Horror and Low Budgets ("Video Dreadfuls") from the 1970s and early 80s more fucked up than anything made today, which is tame in comparison. The Mountains have Ears. Blood Drinking Freaks. Kentucky Woodchipper Massacre. Faces of Death I-MXCVI, etc.

I think exhaustion and (worse in the PoMo era) boredom from shock is taking over, people have had a bellyfull.

Howard Stern was most decidedly a freak show of the pathetic and the dismal urban freakoids in olden days. One show was really unbelievable when he had a whole group of men with micro penises display themselves nude on the show, micro penises and all.

clambo says

The urban exodus will exclude those who have sec 8 HUD paying 90% of their rent.
Government workers and geezers without money will also stay put.

I think that there will always be a demand for affordable housing that will keep cities occupied. Those Hondurans gotta live someplace.