Surprise Surprise People are leaving the Cities in Droves

finance.yahoo.com...

Americans are moving out of urban counties like never before

Exurban counties saw the biggest increase across the board, with about 80% gaining population. These counties are defined as areas with "a population smaller than 50,000, at least 25 percent of their population in a large or medium-sized suburb, and must be in a metro with a population of 500,000 or higher.”

I've never been a city mouse, and can't understand how people can live on top of each other, with no fresh air, man-made noise all hours of the day and night. That's just me.

People really just wanted to get out of the city, and even suburbs in some cases.
Someone mentioned a reason it in the comments of the article, but it is never mentioned in the article itself. People were already moving PRE pandemic due to crime. I think this is spot on but nobody is talking about it. Crime is bleeding into the suburbs too and everyone is sick of it.
You think the cities were food deserts before, just wait, they haven't seen anything yet. All that migration is moving tax dollars. Those tax dollars are going to have a profound impact on schools, services and just about everything. With all the people migrating, businesses in the cities are failing. I've seen it in the few i've visited. It's real. They need peopl with the means are leaving and they are taking their buying dollars with them.

I think we are going to see some really crazy things in the not so distant future with all this change. Is this a land grab for real estate in the cities? Cities almost always come back, investors can be very patient. How will this impact farmland especially smaller indepenent ones? I know by me, they are dissappearing one by one. Another big concern for rural areas is resources like water... We love our wells out here, but aquifers can only support so many houses. Long standing rural areas are being transformed overnight with all the new transplants, a lot of time, it's not for the better.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Which causes taxes and fees for those who remain behind to increase dramatically, due to crooks being in charge and needing specific levels of revenue.

originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: JAGStorm

Which causes taxes and fees for those who remain behind to increase dramatically, due to crooks being in charge and needing specific levels of revenue.

That was on our news. I do feel for the elderly and people that can't leave, a lot of them are going to really be in a situation soon. More taxes and less services!

I think some of these urban areas are trying to expand their city limits to incorporate some of the refugees, who are fighting same.
(sorry no source, I've just heard and read stuff)

I anticipate a fair amount of 'white flight' racist accusations
and state Boards of Education trying to redistrict / refinance.

a reply to: JAGStorm

What's crazy is how the Biden infrastructure plan pumped money into the cities to rebuild and repair streets that are sparsely populated now.

originally posted by: ElGoobero
I think some of these urban areas are trying to expand their city limits to incorporate some of the refugees, who are fighting same.
(sorry no source, I've just heard and read stuff)

I anticipate a fair amount of 'white flight' racist accusations
and state Boards of Education trying to redistrict / refinance.

Oh that is ABSOLUTELY happening. They are redistricting all over the place!

City living can be fun. I also enjoy country living.

When I was younger, I liked living in an area with a lot of things to do from dining out at varying restaurants to shows to museums to parks, etc. However, as I've gotten older, I am starting to prefer country living. I just want space, peace and quiet, fresh air, etc. The crime and foolishness of city living is starting to get intolerable.... thugs, homeless, constant govt fees (parking, taxes, etc)... just don't really want to deal with it anymore.

Only thing that really keeps me in the city is young kids and wife. If it were just me, I'd have a cabin in Tenn, North GA, or Western NC most likely. Just want a little place up in the mountains on maybe 20 to 40 acres. End of the road seclusion, so I can set up my prepper compound and check out from this clown show society.

I figure I can go to the big city a few times a year if I need to for enjoyment.

The timing is right for it, move far away from cities, make a underground shelter, fill it with water and food.
And when it is time to rebuild please remember to make the right choices when choosing a leader/leaders.

a reply to: JAGStorm

DeSantis mentioned this in the news in Florida and as usual it was taken out of content, the problem is that many are from democrat strong holds and they run away from crime infected cities, but at the same time they bring the same ideologies and way of thinking that actually made their communities struggle now, voting for the same crap over and over again, knowing that they are no good for their cities and state.

Maybe democrats now can use the "free space" to house the almost two million illegals that they have allowed to cross the border.

Cheap labor, free housing and the recycle of poverty goes on and on, nothing but imported poverty into the nation.

originally posted by: JAGStorm

originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: JAGStorm

Which causes taxes and fees for those who remain behind to increase dramatically, due to crooks being in charge and needing specific levels of revenue.

That was on our news. I do feel for the elderly and people that can't leave, a lot of them are going to really be in a situation soon. More taxes and less services!

you should feel sorry for them. after all this is not the first time that this has happened. in fact, this is what caused exactly what you said. and is the cause of once great cities like Detroit and Chicago become the hellholes they were in the 80's (things have improved quite a bit until apparently now). because just as you say, everyone that can moved out, leaving the poor to pay for all those social services, police, fire, government etc. and even now you will see this caused those cities such as Chicago, and Detroit to become pretty much bankrupt. because of course they can't get enough money from the poor to pay for everything. and this is one reason for giving huge corporations major tax breaks, such as paying no tax, to lure those businesses into their territory hoping to achieve two things. those being to lure people with more money back, so they can be taxed. as well as to bring in jobs, so that hopefully they can get jobs for some of their people, so they can collect more tax money from them.