@sharghzadeh Usually when places experience a population boom they export their population to surrounding areas. Don’t see why this wouldn’t just occur. Egypt & Pakistan are historically speaking rare examples where the population keeps growing but stationary.
@Empty_America You see this perfectly in NYC. All the white ethnics left so the only white ppl left are suburban transplants (upper middle class and above) and the behavior is quite stark between them and native NYC minorities and whatever white ethics are left.
King68TheGreat almost KICKED this girl out of his crib after she tried to ask him out for FREE FOOD and started making DISRESPECTFUL jokes about him after he REJECTED her 😳
The bottom line on all "Cost of X" things is there is no servant class anymore.
When a US citizen makes you a sandwich, they are a person with material expectations much like your own.
Panda has to pay the manager 85K because that is what it costs to get a capable person.
Over the past decade, a new generation of retail brands have branched out from their Elizabeth Street origins and multiplied across the city. Of course, you won’t find them on mall-brand shopping corridors like Manhattan’s 34th Street or Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Instead, these chains have congregated in stylish shopping strips like Bleecker Street in the West Village and Cobble Hill’s Bergen Street — corridors that have a distinctly “neighborhood” feel and attract younger shoppers with plenty of cash and a taste for (mildly) adventurous fashion.
It’s a positive trend for the city, says Jonathan Bowles, executive director at the Center for an Urban Future, who has been tracking the city’s chains for 18 years. “I think New Yorkers are after interesting retail and for a while, it seemed the phrase national chain meant something boring and generic — the same retail mix they have in Cleveland,” says Bowles.
It also coincides with a noticeable exodus of the megachains. In recent years, some of the most prominent national brands, such as T-Mobile, Starbucks and GNC, shed dozens if not hundreds of locations within the city. But the mini-chains are making up for the closings. The city now has 19 Warby Parkers, for example, along with 19 Aesops and seven Buck Masons.
Anne Kadet explores the phenomenon happening across the city: https://t.co/bXlSbSiOB9
@BowTiedBull@KalanixCruz Average is skewed upward by billionaires so average in this case is less than 10% of the population. Median reflects reality. Agreed with your point writ large