Why I’m Leaving New York City. More than half a million people left New York in 2022

[Jonathan Whatley]

New York City's population declined by almost half a million between 2020 and 2022.

"In the two years leading up to the pandemic […] about 40,000 remote workers moved away from metro New York. Then, 200,000 [remote workers] left in [the next] two years."

Many communities receiving net remote worker in-migration were vacation towns. Several in Florida but several in blue states, including Ocean City, NJ, Cape Cod, MA, and Salisbury, MD.

The Places Most Affected by Remote Workers’ Moves Around the Country (Emily Badger, Robert Gebeloff and Josh Katz, The Upshot from The New York Times, June 17, 2023)