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.
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
Why a city? I mean, for "why not own and operate a tramp freighter engaged in cabotage up and down the coast of America" I sort of know the answer, but why a city?