Has anyone Covid-relocated from a largish coastal metro (SF, LA, Portland, Seattle, NY, Boston, DC) to a smaller city anywhere that’s *not* Austin or Miami?
The Schelling point cities are weirdly dominant in migration patterns.
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Hypothesis: “where to move to?” is not an Excel-complete problem
So if you start a spreadsheet to solve it, you’ll get frustrated in a few hours and just decide to move to Austin because 2 of your friends did.
The social graph is a dominant variable in mobility decisions
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You may think you’re solving for weather, taxes etc., but you’re solving for “how many people will I already know when I land there?”
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I really need to stop bumming around and settle down. Goal is to pick a city by age 50.
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I’ve never moved for friends/community ever though. I’m convinced the formula is a wishful dream. Hell is other people etc.
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I’m amused by how this idea keeps cropping up. I’ve concluded it’s unworkable because these communities don’t actually exist as the clean sets people imagine. They’re leaky fuzzy small world groupings which lack sufficient consensus. You can get to n=10 at most without going cult twitter.com/leepnet/status…
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I thought it would be smart to move from Boston to somewhere smaller and cheaper, but the problem was too open-ended and I gave up. I'll probably end up in Salem or somewhere else nearby.
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Still largish coastal metro, but San Diego for me. Somewhat lower cost of living, better weather, and the beaches were the big draw
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We're in Sacramento, which was mostly friends-family-and-driving-distance-to-the-Bay-Area
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“In the first quarter of 2021 in Austin, there was a greater share of home buyers who had lived in San Francisco the previous year than there were people who had moved within the city, according to the real-estate brokerage Atlasa.”
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