Economy
The Jobs That Are Getting Priced Out of Superstar Cities
It’s not high costs alone that are pushing people out of expensive cities—whole categories of jobs are underrepresented there.
Recently, I emailed a carpenter to ask him to repair some minor damage to the roof of our Toronto home, inflicted by the harsh winter. He told me he’d had it with Toronto’s high housing prices and had moved back to the West Coast.
Then, when I asked a friend of mine if there was someone he would recommend, he told me the roofer he used had just moved to Ireland. He’d signed off his last email: “Nobody can afford to live in this city!”