Migration to smaller cities seen in the US

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Migration to smaller cities seen in the US

Urban population growth in the US exactly isn't as big as the phenomenon seen in countries like China and India, but there's certainly population growth in North America, projected to be around 100 million by 2050, mainly fueled by population growth in the US. What's stunning is that much of this urban growth is not happening in the big cities anymore, but in smaller, manageable cities that have populations of less than 1 million.

Early on in the 20th century, if you are ambitious, you only had a few cities to turn because this is where the big guns are. Notably, these are cities like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. However, these days certain cities have already shown that they have the capacity to attract global business, fueled by the growth of the population in these smaller cities.

Cities like Austin, Houston, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, and Raleigh-Durham are among these cities that we are talking about. For businesses, their main advantage here are lower operational costs plus high growth rates in contrast to the rest of the nation. For ordinary citizens, one driving factor for their migration here are the lower housing rates. It becomes easier to fulfill the American Dream if you are in a city that can make you afford it more easily.

Then there are also problems that you regularly see in megacities, like traffic issues (this despite the fact that cities like New York have the most advanced transit systems around) and relatively higher crime rate drive the outmigration of people from these megacities to the smaller ones around. Who wouldn't want to be in a city where your work is just a few minutes away?

Americans are not exactly going back to the 19th century and early 20th century when a lot of people are still mostly living in the farms or in small towns, but this emerging migration patterns in the US generally mean that Americans don't exactly like big city life either.

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