The title (of the article, not this post) is misleading.<p>Americans are leaving New York City. The numbers they use followed by<p>"That means that, since 2010, almost a million more people have left New York for somewhere else in America than have moved to New York from another U.S. metro—more than any other metro in the country"<p>indicate that people are leaving NYC. They don't say where these people are moving to, or if they are moving to other cities or rural communities.<p>NYC, SF, LA, etc are dying. Other cities are booming. People aren't leaving behind City life, they're leaving behind city life in a few cities that are too expensive, too competitive, and offer very little in return.<p>Why pay $1500 / month for a shoebox in NYC when you can spend 1/3 of that in a smaller (albeit less romanticized) city?<p>There is a middle ground between the rat race of the Big Cities and the classical 60s American dream house, and people are going there.