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The Top 15 Destinations for Americans Escaping the City in 2020

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In 2020, Americans fled from big blue blob cities to escape the COVID-19 pandemic, the strict mandates of governors and mayors gone wild, and the rioting and looting that took the cities by storm in the summer. Now CoreLogic has determined which cities gained the most refugees, and which lost the most residents. The top 15 destination metro areas were:

  1. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
  2. Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
  3. Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
  4. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
  5. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
  6. Port St. Lucie, FL
  7. Jacksonville, FL
  8. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
  9. Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL
  10. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
  11. Stockton, CA
  12. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
  13. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
  14. North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
  15. Greeley, CO

The 15 places Americans were most eager to leave were:

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
  3. San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA
  4. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
  5. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
  6. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL
  7. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
  8. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
  9. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
  10. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
  11. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
  12. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
  13. Salt Lake City, UT
  14. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
  15. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Of the most popular destinations, 13 of the 15 were located in America’s Growth Corridors. Of the cities Americans were escaping, only four were in growth corridors.

Action Line: America’s small business owners and Liberty Retirees know what they want in their hometowns. They want low costs, low taxes, and to be left alone. That’s why they’re looking for a better America. If you want to move somewhere safe, look at my Top 10 Best States for Survival.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com