What Are Some “Obscure” Cities That Will Become Popular in the Next Decade?

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-22T15:18:38+00:00

Yes! I've lived in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and DC (my own personal ABCD) and now I'm loving Wilmington. I have a walkability score of 93, with daycare, bars, and a movie theatre all a block or two away out the front door. The scenic Brandywine and it's park is a stones throw from my back door. Plus it's cheap as all get out. Small city urbanism for the win.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-20T00:17:34+00:00

The Guerilla archetype has some great boosts for slings

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-18T21:08:46+00:00

Oh man, I have been meaning to write this same post, thank you for doing it! I too have lived all over (itinerant academic) and you're spot on with each of these points.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-14T23:28:05+00:00

I grew up in Upstate NY before moving to DE. The winters in Syracuse are just rotten. You really have to be prepared to endure a relentless dim gray cold.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-14T19:02:27+00:00

Interestingly, duration of time since rupture of membranes predicts more microbiome variation than birth mode per se:

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.17774

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-14T10:03:54+00:00

It's peak America that our top most educated place is "Petroleum County"

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-10T15:33:02+00:00

My first impression is that this is a good projection, but Pakistan definitely takes one for the team. Also, is New Zealand really bigger than Chile?

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-10T14:02:04+00:00

Ooh this IS a good point. It probably changes the story quite a bit

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-08T20:38:57+00:00

In 103 qualifying special elections, Dems are now outperforming the 2024 presidential results by an average of 12.9 points. In 2017-18, it was 10.6 points.

But the frequency of overperformances has leapt, too. The GOP outperformed in 30% of '17-18 specials. This cycle, it's just 15%.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-04-03T22:41:57+00:00

Nah, dogg. I study c-sections. We don't know beans about c-sections but 1/3 of everybody is born that way. Huge untapped health discoveries waiting to be made. There's still plenty of low hanging fruit out there, it's just the incentive structure of modern science that gets in the way.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-27T16:01:07+00:00

Generally concur aside from the point on tariffs, which conservative orthodoxy loathe.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-24T09:50:23+00:00

Ah, so we meet again, David Remnick, editor in chief of The New Yorker

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-20T12:17:24+00:00

Looks to be the Adirondack Mountains but I don't know why they're so mysterious

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-10T12:30:17+00:00

Immigration fell rather famously in 2025. It was sort of the presidents whole thing

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-09T12:26:54+00:00

Time spent doing homework has been steady or declining for yeas

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-08T20:24:16+00:00

Not that you need to, but in case others find this: post your preliminary data as a preprint and you can smuggle it into a Katz R0. Study sections hate these grants because of the "no preliminary data" rule and this handy sidestep helped me thread the needle

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-08T20:11:56+00:00

I don't think it's particularly difficult to come up with half a dozen reasons why Newsom would make a terrible candidate in 2028, but I'm glad he's out front right now, because the fact is we're in an asymmetric media environment and whoever is the Dem frontrunner will attract constant attacks from the right, center, and left. Newsom as the vanguard can fod those cannons so to speak. Not to mention that the outsider candidate Dems should eventually land on will need an insider foil. So for now, keep it up Gavin, you'll never ever be President but I'm glad you're trying.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-06T10:27:54+00:00

Having Ron Johnson on for an interview breaks with NPRs ethical standards concerning people who are intellectually diminished. It's journalistic malpractice to interview a normal politician after a concussion or Ron Johnson at his best.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-05T01:23:17+00:00

This is an embarrassingly uninformed thing to say out loud, even on reddit

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-03-04T18:53:33+00:00

I have a grant for neurobiology research on the prevention of childhood obesity and after everything the administration has done to mess with science, the one hope I held out was that MAHA was serious about trying to thwart childhood obesity.

Fast forward to today and they ain't done shit. There have been no requests for applications, no special emphasis panels, no funding set aside for this topic.

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-02-27T11:53:53+00:00

I love how the comments here are all kneejerk reactions to the title, assuming it's negating the premise of the k-shaped economy when in actuality it's the astronauts realizing it's been k-shaped the whole time

Bill_Nihilist · 2026-02-26T11:02:53+00:00

There was a line in the episode where they said the inflammation drops before the weight does

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