I think the age of one of the largest generations and the timing of the pandemic is important to think about. If you were getting to your 30s, you are about at

I think the age of one of the largest generations and the timing of the pandemic is important to think about. If you were getting to your 30s, you are about at the age where dual income career minded couples start to have children. The opportunity to work remote is convenient to those couples that were looking to move to a smaller more affordable area as their children made it to school age. It’s not that the pandemic will never end, its that it gives a lot of people an easy way to relocate as they do not have to quit their current job and/or find a job while living outside the area they are trying to move to. Even if their job requires them to start working in the office again, they’ll have already had time to get settled in their new area and will have a much easier tome finding a new job there.