This thread is of great interest to urban planners post-pandemic. I’m sure that there is a similar movement of people from UK and I suspect Irish urban centres to their periphery. Or to the countryside.
https://twitter.com/benjazehr/status/1613492918961979392
My guess as to the reason for the long-term movement at least since the 1990s and its recent reversal is that a steady trend had developed in which people moved to get a job, or to be with friends and relatives, or they followed traditional migration routes.
The pandemic destroyed long-term built-up habits and routines, including family life. It frightened people and forced them to rethink their lives and life styles. It broke supply chains, but also demand expectations, leaving us frustrated and disappointed.
Changes in lifestyle induced by the pandemic have led to this reversal of the move into central urban centres. It seems obvious why. WFH has become real and realizable. You can live almost anywhere now, so why not move somewhere else. And change your job too!
Since friends and relatives are a drag factor, holding back moves to far-away places, people will tend to move to the urban environs surrounding the centres. Or they will choose localities with good transport links to their previous homes.
So now we have the #SecondGFC in which property loans figure prominently, caused by WFH. And these snowballing phenomena come from the pandemic and Putin’s war. And the result is urban migration and hopefully a better lifestyle.
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