Diary of a rail fan in Kansai,Japan(Ver.2)

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Why is suburban boom declining?

People are panic buying homes as prices skyrocket around the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/13/business/global-real-estate-prices/index.html

Also in Japan, people living around downtown fled to suburban areas last year. But now, many of them are suffering from long commuting time. That's because more and more companies require attendance at office. In some cases, by requesting management class staffs to come back to office, subordinate employees are indirectly forced to commute to office.
So, we should think that trend caused by pandemic would disappear soon.