How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle

As a columnist, I ought to personify the conventional wisdom that distance is dead: All I need to get my work done is a place to perch and a Wi-Fi signal. But if that’s true, why do I still live in London, the second-most expensive city in the world? If distance really didn’t matter, rents in places like London, New York, Bangalore and Shanghai would be converging with those in Hitchcock County, Neb. (population 2,926 and falling). Yet, as far as we can tell through the noise of the real-estate bust, they aren’t.

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