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Personal geographic mobility has been declining for a long time in the us: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/01/mover-rate.html https:

Personal geographic mobility has been declining for a long time in the us: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/01/mover-rate.html https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/... It’s reasonable to believe that an overall declining mobility rate means that people aren’t moving for jobs. One interesting note in that data- it appears intracounty moves declined much more quickly than inter-county moves. I suspect that the increasing ubiquity of personal automobile ownership helped drive that decreasing mover rate, as it enabled more work opportunities to be within reasonable distance of peoples existing accommodation (and moving sucks).

perl4ever 6y ago
According to the [curbed.com] link provided by the sibling comment, the proportion of people moving for work has increased significantly. At the same time, it didn't provide detailed information. So when you have trends going in opposite directions, you can't say a priori if they cancelled out. People are clearly moving less; if the information posted is accurate, more of the moves are for work. But why can't we start by examining the source of the opinion? My instinct was that it is ill-founded, but who knows if I am right, because I was guessing. What is the reason that you believe people are moving less for work in the first place? It doesn't take research or debate tactics to simply say "this is what convinced me".