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will become apparent and strengthen. And that's good, not just bad. No one thinks what we've created is the best we could have. By a long shot. It's just what people did willy-nilly with the current uncharted circumstances when they were where people had never been before.
One thing experts are examining is how all these sprawling subdivision deserts we currently call "the American dream," miles upon usually dangerously un-sidewalked miles from anything worth walking to, empty-street places where it's impossible to tell if anyone is home behind the doors, will evolve. Because they will.
Note that genuinely urban areas, with their plethora of concentrated amenities, are pricing most Americans out. We left to live in the country knowing we wouldn't be able to afford to return. And we haven't invested over an hour just in driving time alone for a concert or large political rally in a very long time.
And in addition to the problem of previously livable if unexciting suburban neighborhoods no longer served by even a mall to stroll in, between rising urban prices and dropping wages for half the nation, sometimes drastically, urban ghettoes are giving way to suburban ghettoes, which display all the dysfunctions of the inner city ones regardless of color.
But that's just a bad side of the transitional coin. Will charming, wonderful new townships capable of providing reasons for people wanting to gather around them, summer concerts in the park, etc., form in many of what are currently mostly cultural wastelands with no "there there?"
The answer is yes. Many of tomorrow's wonderful places to live and raise families are only plans in the minds of those who will make them happen now. Some well positioned decaying malls and strip malls will become parks and centers of community activities. But how many how fast, and where? I think we can safely assume blue states will lead the way.
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