SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR [1]”. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. Today, a special look at the ongoing outmigration from America’s urban centers.
Urban Exodus Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
The Washington Examiner reports: Urban exodus that began during pandemic shows no signs of slowing down [2]. Here is an excerpt:
“Taken together, the metropolitan area of New York, Newark, and Jersey City lost more than 385,000 people in 2021.
New York City’s population loss in 2021 was almost six times the size of its population loss in 2019, according to census data.
The availability of remote work, the persistence of pandemic-related restrictions, and the rise of crime and inflation have all contributed to a stream of people finding homes outside their cities even after the height of the pandemic in 2020.
“In many cases, there was a shift from larger, more populous counties to medium and smaller ones,” the Census Bureau noted [3] about trends observed in 2021.
Washington, D.C., lost more people in 2021 than it had in the previous two decades, according to the D.C. Policy Center [4].”
The Work From Home Revolution
Pew Research: COVID-19 Pandemic Continues To Reshape Work in Americ [5]a.
Remote Work Is Here To Stay And Will Increase Into 2023
Published by Forbes, back in February: Remote Work Is Here To Stay And Will Increase Into 2023, Experts Say [6]. This article begins:
“While some companies continue to thumb their noses at The Great Resignation and insist that employees come back into the office, data scientists at Ladders [7] insist that the writing is on the wall. Remote work is here to stay. According to their projections, 25% of all professional jobs in North America will be remote by the end of 2022, and remote opportunities will continue to increase through 2023. Researchers from Ladders [8] have been carefully tracking remote work availability from North America’s largest 50,000 employers since the pandemic began. Remote opportunities leapt from under 4% of all high paying jobs before the pandemic to about 9% at the end of 2020, and to more than 15% today [9]. “This change in working arrangements is impossible to overhype. As big as it is, it’s even bigger than people think,” said Ladders CEO Marc Cenedella [10]…”
Where Are People Moving in 2022?
Recently published by a storage space trade publication: Where Are People Moving in 2022? [11]
Rural Destinations Are Winning In The Great Relocation
Another from Forbes: Four Reasons Rural Destinations Are Winning In The Great Relocation [12]. A pericope:
“Moving to a smaller community likely comes with an opportunity to lower your household overhead by decreasing the cost of rent, mortgages, childcare, and food. This potential cost of living decrease means that not only may home ownership and other investments become more of a reality than when you were thinking of buying in an expensive urban center, but you may actually have more expendable income for enjoyable expenses like pets, vacations, and hobbies. The standardized salary of an urban job in rural area can give you a little wiggle room to spend more money on life enriching and wealth building activities.
Our society is in the process of building a lot of “new normals,” and your local lifestyle can be one of them. Use the opportunity of having higher location flexibility to design your life from the ground up, because we’re not returning to life as it was, we are in the midst of creating a new way of living.”
Where Are People Moving in 2022?
Recently published by a storage space trade publication: Where Are People Moving in 2022? [11]
Gen Zers Are Buying Homes: Where They’re Looking
Posted last month by The New York Times, and widely-syndicated: Gen Zers Are Buying Homes. Here’s Where They’re Looking [13].
Corporations: The High-Tax State Exodus
A FoxNews video report: Caterpillar, Boeing, Raytheon revive high-tax state exodu [14]s. “Job Creators Network predicts Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Iowa, Arizona, South Dakota to see influx of companies.”
The Pandemic Migration’s Lasting Impact
From Fortune magazine: The pandemic migration’s full impact is becoming clear—and it’s a ‘big deal’ for the future of cities and white-collar work [15].
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