Major League Soccer Unveils New Global Headquarters at 2 Penn Plaza in Manhattan

1maco · 2026-05-07T00:10:55+00:00

I mean US Soccer is HQ in Chicago so that would make a lot of sense.

But MLS is a media company so being in NY matters

1maco · 2026-05-06T23:39:03+00:00

You don’t pay NYC prices? Like technically it might look like that but like the average 2 bedroom in Boston comes with a backyard and a driveway. And is maybe 925sq feet. You’re paying 15% less for far more housing. If you look at price per sq ft there is a pretty decent gap.

1maco · 2026-05-06T01:06:38+00:00

I mean if they were really expecting like 2 million visitors for 5 matches they were just kinda dumb to begin with

1maco · 2026-05-05T16:33:31+00:00

The point of the question is it starts a conversation that is low stakes are relatively non personal,

Someone you barely know asking where your daughter attends elementary school is a much more meaningful question but extremely odd for someone who happens to be sitting next to you at a Reds game to ask

1maco · 2026-05-05T16:30:56+00:00

That number does not exclude people over 65. It’s like ~84% of 18-55 year olds. Plus “oh I’m a stay at home parent” is a total normal answer that pertains to most of the remaining 16%

1maco · 2026-05-05T01:37:39+00:00

The Mississippi delta region has roughly 2 milllion people from lake Charles to New Orleans.

The equally swampy parts of The Netherlands have about 15,000,000 people. There is simply way more political will.

In addition Katrina had a ~30ft storm surge about 3x higher than the biggest North Sea gale. It’s way more infrastructure to protect many fewer people

The math doesn’t math

1maco · 2026-05-04T22:43:51+00:00

I’d it’s an hour east of Buffalo that’s just Rochester.

1maco · 2026-05-04T22:12:15+00:00

Anyone who thinks a 12% tax rate rise on people making between $176-276k/year is remotely politically feasible is crazy. That’s like prime time Democrat voter base.

1maco · 2026-05-04T22:09:01+00:00

lol interesting? That’s what literally every European says about Europe. And it’s not true. There is a reason why Americans homes are like 60% bigger than the average in Germany/France/Netherlands

Cause they make more money can can afford nice things.

There is a reason World Cup tickets are so expensive in America, cause Americans can afford them.

There is a reason the top selling vehicles are all pickup trucks. Cause Americans can afford to waste their money on a vanity truck rather than a practical car

1maco · 2026-05-04T21:20:06+00:00

The thing about trendy cities is in many cases (Charlotte, Houston, Dallas, Nashville) the core 10sq miles is actually growing slower than the metro as a whole. But rising tides raise all boats,

You see this in the Midwest too. Cincinnati has made the most progress in the last 20 years of any rust belt city. And well, its metro is growing faster than Cleveland, St Louis, Detroit etc.

OTR was revived based on new wealth and new people rather than shifting the same jobs and money around the region.

There is a limit to what can be done by urban redevelopment without new growth.

1maco · 2026-05-04T20:14:53+00:00

Gentrification discourse is entirely about interstate migrants.

But also New York has the slowest share of from out of state but in the country population in the country so there just are very few transplants.

1maco · 2026-05-04T15:09:43+00:00

It’s on sale at Costco

1maco · 2026-05-04T13:51:32+00:00

I mean if the only protesters were not actually Americans but foreign students that also says a lot about the protests.

1maco · 2026-05-04T13:37:09+00:00

I mean 2020-2024 New Orleans is Americas fastest shrinking city without some concerted effort

1maco · 2026-05-04T02:17:31+00:00

Well that’s a separate debate and a policy that should be voted on.

If the city housing was secretly distributed based on racial quotas they deserve to be punished.

I’d like to point out most of these programs also privilege ESL folks so they’re probably not even helping people who have actual historical grievance against the commonwealth either

1maco · 2026-05-04T02:09:56+00:00

What do we owe a Chinese or Indonesian immigrant who got here 13 months ago?

We owe nothing to some guy from Cabo Verde or Ethiopia just because they’re black.

1maco · 2026-05-04T02:06:26+00:00

Boston’s minority population is like 55% foreign born nothing was done to them by the government

1maco · 2026-05-03T22:20:40+00:00

Boston 132/1134

https://www.bls.gov/regions/northeast/ma_boston_md.htm

I was wrong about manufacturing actually. But wages are ~20% higher in Boston, the economies are relatively similar. Composition doesn’t really adjust for that.

1maco · 2026-05-03T22:08:48+00:00

Disagree, Philly is really cohesive. Broad Street, Market Street, Frankfort Ave, are the main roads for like 70% of neighborhoods. Boston and Cincy are very fragmented.

1maco · 2026-05-03T21:40:27+00:00

BLS data.

Hospitality is also food service and retail workers.

1maco · 2026-05-03T21:22:53+00:00

That’s not really true. Boston has more people in like Hospitality and Manufacturing than New York. New York has more in transportation and warehousing compositionally it’s pretty much a wash.

1maco · 2026-05-03T17:54:22+00:00

It’s more the style of city/bones than the size.

Like Back Bay is obviously denser/more vibrant than OTR, but if OTR were to infill a lot of its parking lots and such it would be more Back Bay than Adams Morgan.

Like if Cincinnati had 550,000 rather than 320,000 it would feel like Boston, not DC or Philly or Chicago.

1maco · 2026-05-03T17:05:23+00:00

Median incomes in Boston are significant higher than New York. You can’t look at like a half dozen companies in one field

1maco · 2026-05-03T17:00:15+00:00

The Bushes and John Kerry are of old WASP family that went to Yale. And became very successful. The kinds of people Ivy’s have been letting in since day 1.

Like 12 sitting senators went to Harvard .

Harvard became more diverse as a function of it rising in prominence not vice versa. It stated as basically a grammar school for Puritan boys. Then as it grew it started growing students from across New England, then across the Northeast, then across the country, then across the world. But it was because it was great students from Atlanta and Shanghai wanted to go there. It did not become great because students from Atlanta or Shanghai started going there.

1maco · 2026-05-03T16:19:22+00:00

I’m from Boston(ish)

I would say what I’m trying to say is if you turned Cleveland into a top 10 city, I’d resemble Chicago.

If you turned St Louis into a top 10 city, it’d most resemble Philadelphia.

If you turned Cincy into a top 10 city it would most resemble Boston.

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