People are leaving large, dense, expensive urban cores for smaller, less dense cities and suburbs. Remote work is also playing a role with up to 23 million Americans predicted to relocate because of covet 19. The second trend is people and companies moving to warm, low tax states in the south and southwest. It's because property is cheaper but they're still within driving distance of a city.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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