Read about edge cities - these are essentially super suburbs with at least as many jobs as residents. IMHO (and I will defer to Koya) edge Cities will fare much better than far flung bedroom communities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_city
The reason edge cities will (in some cases) flourish, is two fold.
First, there is a ton of economic activity there for a reason (proximate to key metro centers and other factors in their favor).
Second, they often have a mix of uses, the problem with Edge Cities is they are usually auto-dominated ... think class A office building park with buildings surrounded by pools of parking, each disconnected from one another... but at the other edge of the office park you have restaurants, maybe retail in a strip or power center format. There is enough economic activity to have malls - the largest and more high end of which are doing well, the mid size and smaller, not so much.
But all of those uses can be reconfigured... it's actually one of the books I listed about and its called "suburban retrofit" - a major component of my work, actually. So, a dying mall might have its center cut our and daylighted for an outdoor pedestrian shopping experience while they add condos and apartments creating a sorta downtown like environment. Office parks will be repositioned and redeveloped as the sea of asphalt for parking is reworked into dense, mixed-use and multi use buildings within a walkable setting - with parking being provided in structures (because auto's will still be the primary mode for most people, just not as overarching as it is today). Often these edge cities have transit options as well.
I'm working with GWU's real estate school with a gentleman who is a Brookings fellow on some research (well, they do the research, I've helped them with their New York ground testing for their results and will do the same in Dallas, and I've helped sponsor the program through former company along with promote it during my speeches and panelist opportunities).
That research shows significant additional economic value (and also now social equity because transportation costs are reduced and access to employment and upward mobility increased) for walkable urban places... again, morseso with transit, but not transit dependent. That research shows that about 1-2% of a region's land mass is dense urban, called Walkable Urban (think major city core and large urbanized centers), about 3-5% are walkable communities (local serving and some regional serving downtown type environments). About 2-3% of the land mass are Edge Cities... and 90%+ is driveable, low density, single use suburban.
Most of the growth and economic development will take place in the growing walkable urban communities and by converting edge cities into walkable neighborhoods and, for larger centers, potentially true Walkbale Urban Places. The idea is we need to move some of the 90% into the walkable neighborhood, smaller scale mixed-use urban fabric and we need to move the Edge Cities into true Walkable Places.
You can check out a bunch of that research, including reports showing how companies are now moving from the suburbs to walkable urban places, here.
