Why Americans are leaving big cities behind

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Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Americans are moving out of big cities. Cost, quality of life and the pandemic are shifting decades of population growth patterns. So where do Americans want to live now?

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0:00.0	Many Americans are rethinking life in the big city.
0:09.5	Take Katie Garner.
0:11.4	We just moved to Augusta, Georgia this summer in July.
0:17.1	Before that we were in New York City.
0:19.4	We were there barely briefly.
0:21.0	We were only there for about a year.
0:22.9	And before that we were in Austin, Texas for a long time.
0:26.2	And previously wasn't considered a big city,
0:29.5	but it definitely has gotten that way over the past decade or so.
0:33.2	Now Katie says living in both Austin and New York
0:37.3	was great, but it was also making it hard
0:39.9	to achieve their financial and lifestyle goals.
0:42.9	They couldn't afford to buy a home and worried they'd
0:45.8	be stuck renting forever.
0:47.4	So when she tried to balance all the good things
0:50.0	about New York against the less good things.
0:53.4	Some of the perks of living in a big city,
0:56.2	all of the really cool things to do in big cities.
0:59.2	Those are awesome, but we weren't doing those things
1:02.8	most of the time.
1:03.6	We have two little kids.
1:05.2	And so the things that we do in our free time
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