According to this article titled “Americans are Fleeing Big Cities”,
Northeasterners are moving South and West. West Coast residents are moving inland. Midwesterners are chasing better job markets. And just about everywhere, people are escaping to the outer suburbs, also known as exurbs.
“It’s a case of middle class flight, a flight for housing affordability,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “But it’s not just white middle class flight, it’s Hispanics and blacks, too.”
Sadly, some of the best places to live quality wise have a poor economic base.
Available “good jobs” go to the people “in the loop”… not strangers moving in. It’s who you know, not what you know.
In my local community in the mid south, our Chamber of Commerce gets 2 to 3 inquiries daily about people wanting to relocate to Tennessee because there is no state income tax (despite the politicians best tries) and – by comparison – low property tax rates.
Here, however, the biggest local industry just shut down losing 1200 jobs.
They may be replaced soon… may not.
Many people work 2 jobs to do better than getting by… a “day job” with benefits and a part time job or business.
People who are retired would do well here.
Young families need a business or job that can be performed online by telecommuting, though some of our best neighborhoods don’t have DSL.
The trend will not only continue, but expand… and telecommuting will be part of it.
Remember I told you about Penturbia – a social theory predicting a new wave of urban/suburban depopulation and rural growthquite a while ago?
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