The University of Toronto Downtown Recovery project uses mobile phone data to assess recovery in urban areas.

https://downtownrecovery.com/dashboards/recovery_ranking.html

Some of these are a little quirky but overall a fairly strong revealed preference for cities without radical progressive prosecutors who let violent felons out on bond repeatedly and coddle criminals. also the urban areas are tech hubs

 Downtowns with the strongest recovery:

- Salt Lake City
- Central Valley CA
- mostly SW cities

Weakest recovery:
- San Francisco
- Midwest cities
- Seattle, Portland