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Originally Posted by 10023
That’s the opposite of what I’ve experience, and even what the business media says is typical, which is that more senior people (who have obviously benefited from the office environment, ipso facto) want to go back to the office and the juniors don’t.
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Maybe it's a cultural thing, or specifically an LA thing? My partner's experience is that the boomers who live on the fringes of the metro area, bought homes out there presumably years ago when it was way cheap, and also to get away from "big bad scary LA"---total white (conservative-leaning) boomers. Then, when the pandemic/WFH hit them, according to my partner, several of them LOVED it---because it was a novelty for them, and it also meant not having to make the long commute, either by train or by driving. Even one younger 30-something my partner works with prefers working from home in the IE and staying there (she's from there and leans conservative) and thinks PASADENA is the big bad city. Haha!
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Originally Posted by LA21st
Buses in LA have definetely gotten more crowded lately in my experience.
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I sure hope so. Maybe that means Metro/MTA will reevaluate the bus lines they've discontinued. It's so lame; every 6 or 12 months, Metro evaluates bus ridership to determine which lines to ramp up/discontinue/new ones to create, and it's always from the previous 6 or 12 months. In June/July of this year, they eliminated *two* bus lines we live adjacent to due to low ridership, so instead of 3 handy bus lines we used to have, now we only have one (though supposedly they increased how often a bus on that one line arrives at the stops). They discontinued 2 bus lines (an east/west line and a Rapid Bus line) due to "low ridership," but those ridership numbers were based on last year in the middle of the pandemic shutdown when hardly anybody was taking public transit. DUH!!!! We of course still live near the Metro L/Gold light rail line, so that's still handy.