I have been living in my own little bubble over the last 18 months.
Since COVID started, everyone I know is working remote. For some reason, I assumed that a majority of people are all learning to do their job remotely.
I even went as far as thinking about real estate values due to the change in acceptance of remote work. I had heard that a lot of people, especially the young folks without a spouse of kids were moving to South America and other parts of the world to stretch their salary and enjoy the travel experience at the same time.
I thought the days of rush hour commute were all history.
Then last Friday, I was on the highway at 6am to drop someone at the airport. The lanes were packed. Even more than I remember pre-COVID. It was a shock to see how wrong my assumptions were. I think a lot of the people are back and working in person now.
I guess things are getting back to normal. I was just unaware.
Since COVID started, everyone I know is working remote. For some reason, I assumed that a majority of people are all learning to do their job remotely.
I even went as far as thinking about real estate values due to the change in acceptance of remote work. I had heard that a lot of people, especially the young folks without a spouse of kids were moving to South America and other parts of the world to stretch their salary and enjoy the travel experience at the same time.
I thought the days of rush hour commute were all history.
Then last Friday, I was on the highway at 6am to drop someone at the airport. The lanes were packed. Even more than I remember pre-COVID. It was a shock to see how wrong my assumptions were. I think a lot of the people are back and working in person now.
I guess things are getting back to normal. I was just unaware.