Boston area population lost 2020-2021 (Nantucket: real estate, homes, buy)

[msRB311]

Sounds like people are looking for areas with lower COL and better weather.

Not that everyone would like a Houston or Dallas summer but I’d take that over Boston winters

[thebruiser500]

Better weather thats why people are leaving LA?

People here are delusional. It’s because Boston is hijacked by feminist anti-white communists who are tyrants that want to lock you down, force covid shot passports on you, close down local business but keep wal-mart and amazon open. Total joke. Enjoy your communist future.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by thebruiser500

Better weather thats why people are leaving LA?

People here are delusional. It’s because Boston is hijacked by feminist anti-white communists who are tyrants that want to lock you down, force covid shot passports on you, close down local business but keep wal-mart and amazon open. Total joke. Enjoy your communist future.

People are leaving because they can work from home and it’s simply not worth it to live in MA for some folks if you don’t have too and have the freedom to move and remain employed.

https://www.universalhub.com/2022/pe...r-pandemic-hit

Literally the first comment is I’m leaving due to rent. Bring back rent control.

[BostonBornMassMade]

A ‘demographic perfect https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/...op-population/storm’: Suffolk County had one of the steepest population declines in the US, census data show

Suffolk County had the seventh-largest percentage decline among US counties with over 20,000 population.

Only New York LA and San Fran area did worse.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Millennials are also aging out of cities. There no big generation to cause the type of gentrification we saw the last 15 years. Help is not on the way. I was saying that much 2/3/4 years ago on here.

International migration, which has typically helped drive people into Boston, slowed considerably last year. The county gained fewer than 3,000 residents who moved from another country. That number was 11,678 in 2017, Strate said, before the Trump administration’s more rigid immigration policies and the pandemic helped stanch the flow of people into the United States.

Strate said high housing costs could also be driving people out of Boston, as well as the flexibility many white-collar workers gained during the pandemic to work remotely. In some cases, she said, the millennials who once flocked to Boston a decade ago could now be “entering a different life phase,” in which they’re starting families and seeking the extra room and cheaper housing suburban and rural communities offer.


MA as a whole lost 38k people while growing in far southeastern MA. NH gained 11,000 people
There’s also what Strate called the potential “head for the hills effect” brought on by the pandemic.

Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard — popular destinations for people’s second seasonal or vacation homes — saw the biggest percentage gains in population in Massachusetts. And while New Hampshire saw more deaths than births, every county around the state saw more people move in than out, helping grow the state’s population by more than 11,000 people.

Dropping population, rising rents? MA housing market is broken and obviously needs development in the suburbs that is affordable and nearer to Boston.

[msRB311]

FWIW I do know people who are leaving or want to leave because of the political climate in MA/Boston.

But overall people are leaving because if they don’t have to live here they simply won’t. As others have said everyone’s money (even Tom Brady’s) can go further somewhere else.

[yesmaybe]

This is true but I think you will see a reversal with the 2022 numbers. Think of all that lab space being built... someone's going to have to go in 5 days a week to work it.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by yesmaybe

This is true but I think you will see a reversal with the 2022 numbers.

Why? More people would move here in 2022?

[yesmaybe]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Why? More people would move here in 2022?

People moving back now that the pandemic is over + people moving here to work the lab space.

[msRB311]

I don't know anyone moving back. I feel sorry for anyone who has a job that has been remote for 2 years and they're being made to go back in full time. Even if someone is hybrid if they moved away I guess they would have to come back. I personally don't know anyone who left thinking they'd return when needed. People either moved away for good or just worked from home here.

Bottom line is people moved away and I believe BBMM said this survey goes back before Covid even began.

What exactly does 'work the lab space' even mean? I work at a medical school and people have been back working in labs since 2020. They were the first ones back.