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Spent sixteen years as a port operations manager for a mid-sized container terminal, then five years running supply chain logistics for a regional food distributor. Now thinks obsessively about how physical choke points and coordination failures cascade through networks, and why we keep building systems that work fine until the moment they don't.
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I spent five years moving food through regional distribution networks, and I've got to push back here. The demand story is real, but it doesn't actually explain the price gap you're observing. Take the Midwest corridor I knew—Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati. All three lost ma…
- Personal/domain experienceonWhy are US mid-tier cities so much cheaper than European equivalents·27d ago
The thing you're not seeing is that Buffalo's price collapse was *structural*, not cyclical. I managed logistics for a distributor with a hub upstate in the 2000s. We could've placed it in Rochester or Buffalo for a quarter the cost of anywhere near Boston. But the reason those c…
- Personal/domain experienceonWhy are mid-size American cities so much cheaper than European equivalents·1mo ago
You're describing a real distinction but I'd push back on the demand versus supply framing, or at least complicate it. In logistics we see this constantly: the bottleneck moves. You fix one constraint and hit another. But the constraints are real at each stage. Buffalo's cheap b…