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From the cities to the heartland: a new American exodus?
From the cities to the heartland: a new American exodus?
Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox have published a two-part investigation into internal migration patterns in the USA. They demonstrate that more and more people are choosing to move out of or away from big cities, and move to smaller towns and rural areas, largely due to quality-of-life considerations.
The first article is “Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities”.
Urban cores have started to shrink, losing first to the suburbs, then to ever further exurbs, and now to small towns and even rural areas. For the first time since the 19th century, America’s growth pattern favors smaller metros – Fargo, North Dakota, as opposed to Portland, Oregon – many of which once seemed out of favor.
This transformation can be hard to detect because demographers often discuss metropolitan regions, which put city centers at their cores. But this method of classification masks the trend that much of the growth is at the edges of these areas. In virtually all the fastest-growing metros, it has been the further-out exurbs, themselves until recently rural areas, that have experienced most of the…