The Great Pandemic Migration is over. Here's who won and lost

[RobDownSouth]

America's once-in-a-lifetime Great Pandemic Migration is over.

The winners

• The Golden Triangle in Texas (Austin-San Antonio-Dallas). Rural homeowners within the triangle got squeezed by encroaching suburbs and exurbs of McMansions built for the influx of high income folks immigrating from larger coastal cities.
• Every Florida county bordering a major metropolitan area
• Resort towns in Utah, Colorado and Idaho, as work-from-home job shifts permitted people to live year-round in their vacation homes

The losers

• Large high-priced real estate in or around major coastal cities like Los Angeles, New York and especially the San Franscisco/Silicon Valley area.
• The state of South Dakota, where well-paying oilfield jobs vanished when COVID cause a large softening in demand for domestic oil

 

[Chernosoth]

Population distribution is in constant flux. Covid was a minor blip. We have bigger changes coming with climate change and rising energy prices depopulating suburbs and some large newer cities.

 

[LLCox]

People from NY and Fla. bought up every property that was for sale and many stayed. Now the ONE North/South hwy and the One East/West hwy is nothing but strings of cars year around. I hate to get out in it. So WNC lost.