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| Why Are Vast Numbers Of People Relocating To Small Towns All Over The Country? |
| 2024-05-30 |
| [Econ Collapse] In recent years, Americans have been fleeing our largest cities in unprecedented numbers, and many of them have decided to settle down in quiet little towns all over the country. There are many reasons why this is happening, and I will highlight several of them below. If this trend continues, what will our major metropolitan areas look like? Violence, theft, drugs, homelessness and international migration have all risen to crisis levels and are putting a tremendous amount of strain on our core urban areas. Meanwhile, many small towns are absolutely booming as wave after wave of big city refugees comes pouring in. People have been leaving large metropolitan areas for a long time, but once the pandemic arrived that trend greatly accelerated... In the three years before the pandemic, counties in metro areas with at least 1 million residents lost a total 200,000 or so residents annually to other regions, after figuring both people moving in and leaving, according to the Goldman report. After COVID, those losses vaulted to 750,000 in 2021, 650,000 in 2022 and 550,000 in 2023, according to Goldman and Census data. The numbers reflect annual changes through July of each year. A separate study by Lombard shows the domestic migration losses were concentrated in the largest metro areas with more than 4 million residents. Those cities shed a total 400,000 residents annually before the pandemic and have lost 820,000, 707,000 and 591,000 residents, respectively, over the past three years. And it is being reported that last year small towns became "the nation’s top destination for domestic migrants for the first time in decades"... |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Small towns still feel, look sound and smell like the United States. Situational awareness made sane people see the insanity being forced on the urban cores, and they fled, we certainly did. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-05-30 17:11 |
| #12 Because, for the moment at least, we're left alone to live our lives as we see fit. And at least where I live that goes for everyone: white, black, or Hispanic. None of us are exactly eager to go back to "the real world." |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2024-05-30 15:41 |
| #11 I'm all for barriers and traps along 1-10 west of El Paso. You know, the california road. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-05-30 13:48 |
| #10 Lobe plugs, hog rings, and a side shave. Austin manners, didn't root for the home team, likely play Covid all over again. Didn't scout out where her and her 'husband' were moving to? Brilliant - bet they run stops with their bikes too. That's what happened out here during Covid; liberal granola fruits would spend a week so they could go maskless, bike through stop signs and have their coyote bait dogs just shit wherever. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-05-30 12:27 |
| #9 typically these small towns are satellites of larger urban areas |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-05-30 12:20 |
| #8 #7 The photo of blondie puts it in context; in stead of hanging out and saying 'I'd pay HER to leave', they actually did it. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2024-05-30 11:56 |
| #7 I was paid $10,000 to move from Texas to this tiny Arkansas town |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-30 11:27 |
| #6 Stop & Shop supermarket chain sparks fears of mass closures as 'difficult' decisions hinted at by bosses |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-30 10:56 |
| #5 When all the normies are out, cordon sanitaire around the lawless hellholes. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-05-30 10:33 |
| #4 ...and those trucks carrying food and other goods have to pass through those/by those towns on the way to the big cities. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-05-30 10:30 |
| #3 Why? Because we still have Cops, and guns. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-30 10:22 |
| #2 Have you seen what those cities have become? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-05-30 10:17 |
| #1 “A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”....? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-05-30 09:30 |
