The New Yorker's view of the world?

Today's WSJ, includes Joel Kotkin's "The Myth of the Back-to-the-City Migration". Many commentators live and/or work in Manhattan and cannot imagine that they are the outliers. Many others have not yet accepted the auto-oriented city -- which is here to stay. Still others cannot imagine that the suburbs offer enough in the way of "density" in various "sub-centers" to fulfill urban areas' role in providing all of the agglomeration benefits and opportunities.

It's akin to high-speed rail, rail transit, downtown convention centers and sports stadia, transit-oriented development, and many variants. One side of the brain (if brains actually have sides) says, "get used to it." The other side says, "this is waste, fraud, and even occasional theft."

I suppose this is why they have Tylenol.