Usa, escape from cities: 9 million Americans moved during the pandemic

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February 06, 2021 Driven by the need to find more affordable prices for rents or due to job losses, there is a trend in the United States of America to leave the large urban centers.

Americans are used to moving from one city to another to start a new life, but with the coronavirus this need has become even stronger.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, in March of last year, until October, almost 9 million have changed residence, almost 94,000 more than in the same period of 2019. The data comes from the analysis of the American Post Office on changes of address.

New York turned out to be one of the most abandoned cities, the ones from which the most people left.

According to a data published by Bloomberg in late December, as early as 2019

it was losing 376 residents a day before becoming the epicenter of the outbreak.

In 2020, more than 200,000 people would have left.

65 percent of those who changed their address did so to go to cheaper and less populous areas of wealthy Manhattan.

33 percent of those who left

moved to

, 29 percent went to the residential area of ​​the Hamptons, away from the Big Apple, and 8 percent chose

.

Most of those who moved from San Francisco, California, wanted a place at least a hundred miles away.

Other cities that have experienced depopulation include

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and

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Two-thirds of the transfers involved moving from the center to the suburbs or to rural areas, with low density and with the price of houses, for sale or rent, much more affordable.

A widespread need, considering that millions of families have had to face economic emergencies and job losses with the pandemic.