[mattzito]

According to postal service data, it was an extra 1.7% compared to 2019:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/19/upshot/how-th...

Which is not small, but it bears out my anecdotal impression as an NYC resident- most of the people leaving are people who would have left in the next few years anyway, the pandemic just moved up their timeframe.

And no one moved to avoid the “egregious lockdowns”, it’s just that working from home is a lot harder in an NYC apartment compared to a house.

[ghaff]

While I'm aware of specific exceptions, I expect that's the norm. People who had moving out of the city on their radar screens deciding that the past year was as good a time as any to accelerate the process.

The question will be whether the usual cycle (of about the past 20 years) of an equal or larger cohort of young people move in to replace them.