It’s no secret that people are leaving San Francisco during the epidemic, and a new study finds that many commuters across the U.S. are fleeing expensive metropolitan areas, with Chicagoans and New Yorkers moving to Florida and Austin and Seattle attracting the most “ex” Californians.
Real estate information site Zillow released the company’s first migration report on June 6, finding that 11 percent of Americans moved last year, which is higher than the 9.8 percent migration figure reported by the U.S. Census Bureau between 2018 and 2019.
During the 2019 coronavirus disease (Chinese Communist Virus, COVID-19, Wuhan Pneumonia) outbreak, San Francisco’s apartment vacancy rate increased, rents dropped, and “out of San Francisco” was no longer news.
A report by Zillow, in collaboration with NorthAmerican Van Lines, shows a different result. This analysis of moving company van routes shows examples of cross-state migration.
According to Zillow’s migration report, Chicago topped the list of the top five cities in the U.S. during the epidemic, followed by New York, Los Angeles and San Diego, and San Francisco ranked 5th.
The two major cities to which Chicagoans moved were Phoenix and Sarasota, Florida; New York had the most people moving south to Charlotte, North Carolina (Charlotte) and Miami, Florida (Miami).
Those exiting Los Angeles and San Diego choose Dallas, Texas, and Dallas-Fort Worth and Phoenix, Arizona, which are 40 minutes apart.
Austin, Texas and Seattle, Washington are the most popular cities where “former” Los Angelenos, San Diegans and San Franciscans intersect.
The top five cities for San Franciscans to move to are Seattle, followed by Austin, Portland, Oregon, Phoenix, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado.
Those who moved away from San Francisco’s South Bay Silicon Valley in San Jose made Austin, Denver, Boulder, Colorado (Boulder), Charlotte, North Carolina (Charlotte) and Fayetteville, Arkansas (Fayetteville) as their new homes.
Jeff Tucker, senior economist at Zillow, said Americans have been moving away from expensive big cities in droves since as early as 2018 in search of affordable, mid-sized city living, a trend exacerbated by the epidemic. Thirty-one percent of survey participants said they would move away for a year or more, and 76 percent said emotional factors made it difficult for them to move, while 80 percent of those who moved to a new city said it was “worth it” and 50 percent of those who moved “felt happy and more relaxed after moving.
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