consider all the resort towns crying how they can't find enough service workers

before, service workers were probably living with a few roommates and doing okay because their individual expenses were low. but the lockdowns cost some of them their jobs, and they had to move back home, and all those fragile little living arrangements were smashed in an instant. even the ones who wanted to stay probably couldn't afford to without their roommates

and now, rent is sky high so even if the exact same group of roommates all got jobs and wanted to move back to that town because they all had nothing better to do, they probably can't afford to do it

the situation that slowly built up over decades to allow the resort town access to cheap labor is gone, and unless someone intentionally rebuilds it it's probably not coming back

RT: https://poa.st/objects/fa960e3f-a512-41e9-8275-d530a9658a08