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Americans Begin Returning to Cities After Remote-Work Exodus, Data Shows
The exodus of people fleeing large urban areas during the height of the pandemic appears to be reversing, according to data from the Census Bureau released Thursday. Many workers who could telecommute abandoned crowded cities and counties for suburban or rural areas when covid struck, causing demographers and businesses to wonder whether the movement signified a permanent shift. But the overall patterns of population change are moving toward pre-pandemic rates, the bureau’s Vintage 2022 estimates of population and components of change show.
Eleven of the 15 largest metro areas gained residents or lost fewer people compared with the previous year, including the D.C. metro area, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution senior demographer William Frey…. Among the most striking recorded shifts were in Manhattan and San Francisco, both of which lost population at a significant rate between 2020 and 2021. Manhattan, which shrank by 5.87 percent in 2021, grew by 1.11 percent last year. San Francisco lost 6.79 percent of its population in 2021 but shrank by only a third of a percentage point last year. Both are home to a large number of people who were able to work remotely during the pandemic. Covid rates in New York City were especially high early in the pandemic, and many Manhattan residents moved to outlying counties….
“Many counties with large universities saw their populations fully rebound this year as students returned,” said Christine Hartley, assistant division chief for estimates and projections in the Census Bureau’s population division.
The article also makes the point that immigration into America was temporarily restricted during the pandemic, so outflows never had a chance to be counterbalanced by inflows. And the exodus to the suburbs may have already peaked. Last year Manhattan gained 17,472 people, the article points out, while counties outside the city lost residents. The Census Bureau notes that was a pattern for 2022: “the smallest counties nationally, those with populations below 10,000, experienced more population loss (60.8%) than gains (38.3%); while the largest counties, having populations at or greater than 100,000, largely experienced population increases (68%).”
Beyond that, the executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute argues that it’s just too soon to know whether the pandemic-era outflow from cities was permanent. “We’ve just been through a major health and economic shock. There’s been what I call a doomsday narrative about what’s going to happen, with predictions of empty downtowns and city centers that wither and die.” They believe the new census data “should give us pause in terms of declaring that we’ve arrived at a new normal. It’s highly likely that some of the folks who left will come back, and we really don’t know if it’s going to be a lot of them or just a small portion.”
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Is the ‘exodus’ over? Here’s how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk’s acquisition
Was there a Twitter exodus or just a Twitter pause? Did it even matter? New data takes a look at how a range of “Twitter alternatives” have fared in the months following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the popular microblogging network, now that the burst of new installs driven by his takeover has tapered off. The […]
Is the ‘exodus’ over? Here’s how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk’s acquisition by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Big Metro Exodus mod changes are coming, so pick it up cheap on Steam
Developer 4A Games has just announced something that not many studios do, but it’ll definitely see Metro Exodus mods – and potentially game-wide overhauls – improve in both quantity and quality. The post-apocalyptic FPS game series will now have its SKU released by 4A Games, so prepare for mods galore.
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London exodus is slowing down as 20,000 fewer properties were bought outside the capital
How Mastodon is scaling amid the Twitter exodus
Twitter is in crisis these days. Under new owner Elon Musk, the service has lost more than half its staff through layoffs and quitting, made erratic moves in its product and platform strategies and is facing up to reports about its financial state. That disruption, in true tech industry style, has led to the emergence […]
How Mastodon is scaling amid the Twitter exodus by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
The exodus at Twitter may have been the plan all along, maybe?
When Peter Clowes last updated his LinkedIn profile, he listed his role as “Layoff Survivor” at Twitter. Yet Clowes, a senior software engineer who joined the company in the spring of 2020, is now gone, too. He quit yesterday, dispassionately explaining last night on Twitter that he decided to leave not to hobble Twitter or […]
The exodus at Twitter may have been the plan all along, maybe? by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
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Labour racked up shock £4.8million loss after member exodus
LABOUR saw a £4.8million loss after 91,000 members quit last year, its accounts show.
The party raised £46million in 2021 but has spent £51million.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had been met with a exodus of members[/caption]
The “difficult and demanding year” was blamed on redundancy payments in a cost-cutting drive.
Labour insisted it was now “on track to a firm financial footing”.
Some grassroots campaigners have blamed the exodus on Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.
But the losses reignited more party infighting as grassroots campaigners pointed the finger at Sir Keir’s leadership.
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Momentum said his “pledge-breaking and factional approach have prompted an exodus of members and a financial crisis for the Party.”
The Lib Dems also racked up a £1million deficit after hemorrhaging 25,000 members.
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