That is a good thought . Thanks <| sep |> Yeah , I got pretty lucky . I went pretty hard on this and the SV banner , though , as you can see by the lack of the Sale icon above the shop . Sending you the luck , <| sep |> I just don ' t see it . It ' s just a fact that the culturally impaired tribes of the south were democrats at the time . <| sep |> They made a fuck ton of money off it from helicopter stocks . Lady Bird was the largest share holder in the helicopter company that was providing then to the army . He did not loath the war , or at least his fortune didn ' t . <| sep |> The economy i think in general is good , certainly better than 7 years ago . but we ' ve also had an uninterrupted bull market in the united states for the past several years which has given a huge infusion to corporate america . that will not last forever and while the return to the city movement definitely wont be going away , at the same time i suspect we will be experiencing a correction sooner rather than later . no one can predict the future , but i suspect that while offices are doing well now , automation will begin to hit the white collar work force in the next several years hard . blue collar work went away in the 90 s 00 s . the next 20 years will be the destruction of high paying office work . as far as housing , its almost exclusively concentrated on luxury . that also is not sustainable . neither are niche buildings like Wanda which are dependent heavily on foreign money . also , its easy to be deceived by construction in just a few areas that you frequent , but go to many other parts of the city which used to be generally stable working class and you see them sliding , or already decimated . the black belt of chicago suffered most under the recession , and saw their home equitywealth entirely wiped out . that wont be coming back and it poses significant challenges for how to fund our city . i would also expect federal dollars under the new administration to dry up especially for public transit . also , the current premium place on living near public transit may dry up if autonomous rideshare vehicles become as commonplace as they are predicted to be . the better indication is looking at chicago compared to the rest of the country , because whats happening here right now isnt entirely unique . when you look at NY , SF , Seattle , Miami even smaller cities , they are all having building booms . so chicago , while its definitely going gangbusters on that front , is more just average when taken in the greater context . at the same time , we have the same structural deficits pensions , budget holes , etc that havent been resolved despite being in generally , economically calm times . in fact things have only gotten worse . this can be papered over for a while , but it only means when shit hits the fan again which it will , we are that more screwed .