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Originally Posted by Ant131531
Exactly. Again, if NYC and LA were soooo great, why are they leaving those cities?
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Because of cost of living issues and lifestyle preferences. And, in the case of NYC, because the black community is no longer really African American.
High outmigration isn't a proxy for lack of desirability. In the Northeast Corridor and Coastal California, it's basically because some people can't hack it, or, to be more charitable, there's a mismatch between skill sets and market conditions.
A working class black person who wants a cheap suburban home, and doesn't particularly care about having access to good jobs, culture, or urbanity, could hardly pick a worse place to live than NYC or LA or SF.