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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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Chad Stahelski on Returning to The Matrix
Jay Cutler Believes Bodybuilding’s Men’s Open is Returning to Its Greatest Era
At this point in time, the Men’s Open division resembles a loaded gauntlet. Usually, a bodybuilding class will feature a champion, in this case, Hadi Choopan, and only another worthy contender or two. According to Jay Cutler, this reality couldn’t be further from the truth for those who currently reside in the Men’s Open. On Mar. 26. 2023,…
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Liv Tyler’s Incredible Hulk Character Is Returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
It’s been 15 years since The Incredible Hulk—the Louis Leterrier-directed, pre-Disney Marvel Studios film with Edward Norton playing the big green guy. A lot’s changed since then—but Liv Tyler’s character Betty Ross endures. She’ll make her Marvel return in Captain America: New World Order.
Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense documentary is returning to cinemas after 39 years
David Byrne is, quite literally, suiting up for the film’s release
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Mortal Kombat’s Hiroyuki Sanada Doesn’t Know If He’s Returning for Sequel Yet, but He’s Game
Lucy Letby killed two babies from set of triplets after returning from Ibiza holiday, court hears
NURSE Lucy Letby murdered two babies from a set of triplets immediately after returning from a holiday to Ibiza, a court heard yesterday.
Baby O died during her first shift back at the Countess of Chester Hospital, while his brother Baby P died a day later.
Letby, 33, is accused of injecting them with air.
The court heard their parents begged a transport team to transfer their third triplet to another hospital.
Their father said: “We said there’s no way he’s staying at this hospital.
“If you don’t take him, we’ll take him ourselves.”
The jury heard that the child was moved.
Letby, originally from Hereford, denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill a further ten between June 2015 and June 2016.
The trial at Manchester crown court continues.
Messenger is returning to the Facebook mobile app after nine years away
It’s been so long since Meta cut Messenger out of the Facebook mobile app that Windows Phone was still somewhat of a thing at the time. Almost nine years later, Meta is ready to bring them back together. “We are testing the ability for people to access their Messenger inbox within the Facebook app and you’ll see us expand this testing soon,” Facebook head Tom Alison wrote. “Ultimately, we want it to be easy and convenient for people to connect and share, whether in the Messenger app or directly within Facebook.”
When Meta removed Messenger from the Facebook app in 2014, it said that “our goal is to focus development efforts on making Messenger the best mobile messaging experience possible and avoid the confusion of having separate Facebook mobile messaging experiences.” It’s unclear whether Meta has any plans to bring messaging back to the mobile browser version of Facebook. It started pushing mobile web users toward the Messenger app in 2016. In any case, having one fewer app to juggle on your phone is probably not a bad thing. You might be able to send messages to Instagram users from the Facebook app too.
Meta made the announcement in a bizarrely framed blog post about Facebook’s focus areas for 2023. The post seeks to assure people that “Facebook is not dead nor dying,” as it now has more than 2 billion users.
In an effort to become more competitive with TikTok, Meta is attempting to shift Facebook away from an app where you keep up with friends and family to more of an entertainment and discovery platform. It’s trying to “make Facebook the best place for social discovery and sharing,” as Alison put it in the blog post.
A key reason why Meta is bringing messaging back to the Facebook app is to “make it easier for people to share what they discover on Facebook via messaging, when, where and how it suits their needs, without needing to switch to another app,” Alison wrote. TikTok enables users to share videos that they stumble upon with their friends through built-in direct messaging. So, on one hand Meta is reversing course and going back to an older way of doing things, but on the other it is, once again, aping a competitor.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/messenger-is-returning-to-the-facebook-mobile-app-after-nine-years-away-191426674.html?src=rss
Amazon Employees Are Fighting on Slack About Returning to the Office
Amazon employees are fighting it out about the company’s planned return to the office in Slack channels, according to Insider. First, employees created a Slack channel to fight against the policy. Then, a pro-office return group was formed, the outlet reported….
Per CNBC, “remote advocacy” became a common Slack channel status. However, some people who welcomed a return to office life fought back, Insider reported. Over 700 people joined a pro-return-to-office group. Its description says employees need to “Think Big” about the return to office policy. (By comparison, the pro-working remotely channel has around 28,000 members.)
“I look forward to the prospect of seeing more of my coworkers in the office,” one person reportedly wrote in the channel. Another said that the company should try out the four-day workweek and swap out the remote-flexible schedule. Another message links to a 2021 article in the Harvard Business Review called: “Why You May Actually Want to Go Back to the Office.”
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