The tax situation only affects people living outside of the US, and possibly needing to renounce your citizenship is an incentive to not leave the country. The

The tax situation only affects people living outside of the US, and possibly needing to renounce your citizenship is an incentive to not leave the country. The US is also one of the least taxed countries, despite rhetoric suggesting otherwise. The people who are "better off" are by far the most comfortable here and least likely to be feeling the impact of the increased cost of living. They're also the least likely to actually need the government services which aren't working. Lastly, as you hinted at near the end, the fundamental difference between moving to the suburbs and moving to another region (domestically or internationally) is that you are going to be far away from friends and family as well as developing whole new routines. In the suburbs you can just drive into the city if you had been doing something there regularly.