There was a net out migration in the second quarter of 20 21, averaging 54 thousand people per month. That's more than double pre pandemic figures. New york and san francisco saw the largest increases in the sheriff people leaving.
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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