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People have been moving out of high-cost urban centers to cheaper areas since at least the 50s. And the "secondary" cities the author mentions are quite massive
by c3534l 8y ago
People have been moving out of high-cost urban centers to cheaper areas since at least the 50s. And the "secondary" cities the author mentions are quite massive cities. Second, the authors narrative that people are moving "from coastal cities to “secondary” cities" is not factually accurate in the narrowest sense: LA, NYC, and San Francisco (which was a secondary city not that long ago) continue to have population growth. People are still moving to these cities, except NYC which has leveled off a bit. And most of the secondary cities the author mentions are also coastal cities, they're just different coastal cities. The only phenomenon is one that's as old as the industrial revolution: increased urbanization.
- jjjensen90 8y agoIn fact Phoenix is on the list of "secondary cities" and is the 5th largest city in the US.
- rayiner 8y agoThere is a very large amount of out-migration from NYC. The city’s population keeps growing because of births and immigration, but many more people move from NYC to the rest of the US than the other way around.
- mdorazio 8y agoThis is also true of California in general [1] although I'm not sure if it holds for specific CA cities (I think it does, though). [1] https://lao.ca.gov/laoecontax/article/detail/265 https://lao.ca.gov/laoecontax/article/detail/265