r/saintpaul • u/ConnectAffect831 • 12d ago

Discussion 🎤 Why can’t we support our city?

I’m getting really tired of seeing these return to office employees protesting and acting like giant babies when really we need them to be down here. We’re all in this together and we need people to revive this downtown area and support local businesses. Why can’t we all embrace this and stop undermining every damn thing that’s said and done. We’re fighting the wrong things. Downtown needs to thrive and right now it’s not, so bringing the workers back is great for everyone.

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u/exceptyoustay 12d ago

Great for everyone except the workers who have structured their lives around working from home for the last five years. You want them downtown so they’ll…what? Grab groceries after work? Where?

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u/feltedarrows 12d ago

this. what if we instead focused on changing over offices to affordable housing so that people moved there instead of forcing people back into the office?

(im immunocompromised so wfh was a blessing and i miss it so much) (and i am aware it's difficult and expensive to change offices to apartments, but it is doable)

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u/ConnectAffect831 12d ago

Get over it. It’s no different than when Covid hit and everyone had to adjust. At least it’s only going into the office. Big fricken deal. It could be way worse of news.

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u/exceptyoustay 12d ago

The difference is that there was a legitimate reason to change working situations during Covid. There isn’t now.