Really good piece but I’m curious why you used Oak Park and Carol Stream as an example? I just found it odd because I grew up in a suburb, Addison, that was actually closer to Carol Stream than to Oak Park. And I had a shitty Blockbuster in my town.
Honestly it's where I first found data of each location. But I wanted to think of them as equivalent—the worker at the Blockbuster cannot switch over to Netflix in the same way the consumer easily can. Meanwhile, someone who lives in Oak Park is less likely to go to work in the Netflix distribution center than someone in Addison. But once the Blockbuster job is gone, where should the worker go?
Really good piece but I’m curious why you used Oak Park and Carol Stream as an example? I just found it odd because I grew up in a suburb, Addison, that was actually closer to Carol Stream than to Oak Park. And I had a shitty Blockbuster in my town.
Honestly it's where I first found data of each location. But I wanted to think of them as equivalent—the worker at the Blockbuster cannot switch over to Netflix in the same way the consumer easily can. Meanwhile, someone who lives in Oak Park is less likely to go to work in the Netflix distribution center than someone in Addison. But once the Blockbuster job is gone, where should the worker go?