Everyone's moving to more comfortable places with lower costs of living. NYC is not an attractive place for job candidates unless those candidates are already in NYC. Even companies with a strong presence in NYC are expanding in places like Nashville, Omaha, Dallas, Denver, etc. rather than in NYC.
At some point, New Yorkers ought to ask themselves why everyone wants to move to these nice midwestern cities.
Consider that your perspective might be skewed because people in lower COL areas tend to be those who place more emphasis on COL?
I think more and more tech workers are going to wake up to the fact that while mega-city life can be cool, it's not the only way to live.
I think there is something to be said about early career people rushing to NY and not realizing how much 80k really is, though. Schools should really have a class for all majors that just goes over how you calculate and compare cost of living and put a price on benefits, including the intangible benefits like having other employers you could move laterally among without planning to uproot and go 1000 miles away.
Job-wise, the NYC tech market is as good as ever.
Not sure why you chose the midwest as a qualifier here - out of all the cities you listed, only Omaha would be considered a midwestern city.
Out of the 15 fastest growing cities according to the Census, almost none of them are in the midwest [1] (Only one really: Columbus). Admittedly it's over a short time span.
Also: #5 is LA, a city I don't think anyone would consider to be low cost of living.
The real story is that the south (+ Texas, depending on what you consider Texas) seems to be growing rapidly, not the midwest.
1: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/estimate...
It's actually pretty important, because the crux of your argument is that they're moving to places with much a lower CoL. If people are moving from NYC to LA/Seattle/etc., your argument doesn't really hold much water.
> or you could take my point that there is a reason why people are moving out of places like NYC in favor of less dense cities that don't smell like urine.
Where are you getting that information from? As far as I can tell, NYC has had about a 6% population growth since 2010. It actually matches the US overall population growth pretty well, which is pretty impressive for what is far and away the most populated city in the country.
Gee, I don't remember mentioning "LA/Seattle/etc." by name. Unlike some other cities that I mentioned by name. Did you see the part where I mentioned cities by name?
> As far as I can tell, NYC has had about a 6% population growth since 2010. It actually matches the US overall population growth pretty well
Great, now compare that to the growth rates of Dallas or Nashville or etc.