03-27-2022, 01:02 PM
The "economic cleansing" of the most desirable, and therefore the most expensive cities - e.g., New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston - has been going on for three decades, causing a "relegation" of relatively low-income Xers to secondary cities - e.g., Des Moines, IA, Lincoln, NE, Madison, WI - and more recently, even tertiary cities - e.g., Enid, OK, Duluth, MN, Fargo, ND.
Interestingly, the exact same thing has been going on in Russia since the Soviet Union broke up - the working class has been pushed out of the cities of the Russian Core (e.g., Moscow and St. Petersburg; even Archangel, which is on the Arctic Ocean, has become pricey) and have been forced to reinvent themselves in Siberia (e.g., Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk).
So this appears to be a global trend - at least in countries with relatively laissez-faire economies (Russia has had a flat tax, with no standard deduction, since 1998).
Interestingly, the exact same thing has been going on in Russia since the Soviet Union broke up - the working class has been pushed out of the cities of the Russian Core (e.g., Moscow and St. Petersburg; even Archangel, which is on the Arctic Ocean, has become pricey) and have been forced to reinvent themselves in Siberia (e.g., Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk).
So this appears to be a global trend - at least in countries with relatively laissez-faire economies (Russia has had a flat tax, with no standard deduction, since 1998).
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