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Originally Posted by Randomguy34
Huh, I remember 2 weeks ago in the General Development thread we were discussing anecdotes of more Florida people moving here. Looks like we now have some evidence of how popular Chicago is to Florida residents.
Also, since the 2020 census' estimates for Illinois were way off (and likely Chicago's), how much faith should we place in the ACS survey's upcoming estimates? Will this year's release be calibrated off of the old 2020 data, or use the corrected estimates?
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It will for sure be interesting to see but I think ACS should always be taken with a grain of salt. They may get some of the general trends right like education, income, etc but I'll be interesting to see upcoming how some of the other data is. I think that the migration data for counties/states is releasing in August via 2020 ACS. It's also possible that ACS is getting some of the more solidly middle/upper middle/upper class neighborhoods pretty correct while they're getting the others like lower middle class or lower class areas not very correct.
The rise of the remote worker is definitely interesting. I found this vlogger on YouTube with like 900K subscribers and she is traveling around, staying in a few cities for a month or so at a time. Then she'll pick one to move to - I think she's from Seattle? Anyway Chicago sounds like it's near the top of her list but I think she represents a portion of workers who are moving around. I've been wondering lately if all the out of region license plates I've been seeing are people who actually moved here vs. remote workers who are going to work here for 3 months and then move onto the next city. But something like Redfin search data is interesting. Doesn't mean they move to every place they search, but I think someone who is looking continually at purchase prices in other places is probably at least somewhat serious about moving to somewhere and for longer than just a few months.
Also the Florida thing is interesting. Have an employee who lives in the burbs and said a few of his family friends/doctors moved to Florida during the pandemic not because "Fuck Illinois/Chicago!" but for some other reasons. Those reasons are kind of gone now, so he was thinking that some might end up moving back to the Chicago region soon.