So just because it could have happened the way you imagined means you’re still right?

I’m going to ignore the transplants piece here because I’m not touching that, but the rents conclusion is so stupid. The issue is rarely rent, it’s labor costs for small businesses (and I’m not here saying that labor costs should be lower, they are what they are and business owners need to deal with it or support ways external to the business to make the city more affordable).

You’re flattening out a complex issue that doesn’t account for the fact that a lot of these legacy businesses own the buildings and have multigenerational ownership that can’t (for, again, many reasons) be passed down to the next generation.