> The article doesn't make that entirely clear.
Yeah, articles like this frustrate me because there isn't much of an attempt to paint the whole picture. It's a catchy headline and a cursory examination to back it up. For example:
> The net number of taxpayers moving out of New York based on the preliminary 2021 tax-year data at the time was over 10,000 higher than the annual net average of 28,700 personal income taxpayers between 2015 and 2019
There's a turnover of people moving in and out of every state, every year. That the figure was around 1/3 higher in 2021 than in previous years certainly feels notable.
> The migration trend followed a net total of 112,400 taxpayers moving out in 2020, nearly four times as many as in 2019, according to the comptroller’s study.
Now what might have occurred in 2020 to cause such large numbers of moves? It amazes me the article doesn't say the word "COVID" once. In that context the 2021 numbers look like a move back towards the norm of previous years. But there's no attempt to examine that.