> This is often stated on HN and Reddit, but simply not true. At no time in US history has there been less internal migration.
That's a pretty big claim. Do you have any data to support that? This [0] seems to tell a different story.
[0]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/03/net-domestic-...
I'm not talking about 2019 to 2020/21 pandemic migration that your article covers. Those years will obviously be an outlier. I'm talking about long-term demographic trends over the past 100+ years.
Edit: A very quick google before a series of calls today: https://www.brookings.edu/research/despite-the-pandemic-narr...
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.3.173
It's more difficult to find stats going back 150 years quickly, but the visualized data I've seen on that is pretty striking.
This is often stated on HN and Reddit, but simply not true. At no time in US history has there been less internal migration. It's actually one of the major problems we have with inequality - people are demonstratively not moving to where the economic opportunity is compared to generations past.