Many large US cities - downtowns specifically - are in trouble, with falling populations and empty offices, both largely due remote working arrangements.
One interesting measure of the drop in people and economic activity in cities: cell phone usage versus befote the pandemic in select cities, as shown below in a chart this week from the Wall Street Journal:
Source: Wall Street Journal
San Francisco, for example, is becoming an empty shell, with cell phone traffic just about 30% of 2019 levels.
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