Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities

This is the first in a two-part series of the Great Dispersion of Americans across the country.For much of the past century, in both the United States and elsewhere, the inexorable trend has been for people to move from rural areas and towns to ever larger cities, particularly those with vibrant downtown cores such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and dozens of other iconic American cities. Most visions of the future still view urban cores as the uncontested centers of production, consumption, and culture, with rural areas, small cities, and suburbs relegated to the backwaters of modernity.A RealClearInvestigations...