City dwellers are rethinking where they want to live amid the coronavirus pandemic
CNNCNN — A moving truck came to Rebecca Stevens-Walter’s New York apartment this week. And Cortright says they reveal an important distinction: “Density,” he argues, “isn’t destiny.” Translation: There are plenty of densely populated cities around the world that haven’t seen coronavirus cases climb as much as New York’s has. “It’s not just a New York thing,” says William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. “If here we are in New York City, and the reasons we’re here, the reasons we’re willing to sacrifice all the basic sort of life benefits that a lot of people have…is for the art, the culture, the diversity, the neighborhood camaraderie,” she says. “New York provides a safety for us that we really can’t get anywhere else,” she says.
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