> Seems most large metros are going through some post-COVID pains I don't know about the US, but here in Canada the 2016 census was already showing meaningful

> Seems most large metros are going through some post-COVID pains I don't know about the US, but here in Canada the 2016 census was already showing meaningful decline in communities with >100,000 people, with communities of 1,000-29,999 people picking up most of the slack. COVID may have accelerated things, but signs of a 'counterubranization' movement were already presenting itself long before we ever heard of COVID.