People absolutely can choose to change where they want to live, by educating themselves on what’s available in places they previously thought were uninhabitable

People absolutely can choose to change where they want to live, by educating themselves on what’s available in places they previously thought were uninhabitable to them. Much work can be done remotely, and much other work is done in many different places than it used to be done in, not to mention the possibility of commuting to/from a job in an expanded range as a result of housing scarcity. Moving is very much a growing option for people, and the data for cross state moves shows that to be the case [0]. [0] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/state-to-state-migration.html https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/state-to-stat...