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Originally Posted by vintageogauge

As noted a lot of these people leaving the city have jobs that allow hem to work from home, many of them high paying jobs. If anything this influx will help the smaller communities giving small businesses a better opportunity to succeed, more tax revenues for schools, property values most likely will go up. We left a town of about 20,000 when we retired and moved down here, since Covid started, homes are selling now at much higher prices there, usually more than asking and are on the market only a few days.

According to Zillow the value of my son's house in a bucolic town of 7,200 on a large lake in Idaho has gone up almost 40% in less than three years. They have a ski resort there as well as an Amtrak stop.