Where Are Thousands of New Yorkers Moving The Great American Migration Explained

New York State has lost a larger share of its population to other states than any other state in the country, and New York City alone lost more than 400,000 people between 2020 and 2023, so where are they all going? This video follows the new New Yorker map through Florida, Texas, North Carolina and smaller destinations like Nashville, Philadelphia and the Hudson Valley. It explains the affordability frontier that has pushed families south and west for decades, and how remote work made a long-running decision impossible to postpone. You will also see how these moves travel through networks of friends and relatives, and what the arrivals are doing to the towns they land in. The video closes by asking what happens when the cheaper place finally runs out. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:37 Why New Yorkers Are Leaving 4:04 Two Engines of Migration 5:04 Remote Work and the Exodus 6:35 Florida and Miami 9:23 Texas and Austin 12:07 North Carolina Growth 16:35 How Migration Spreads TAGS where are new yorkers moving, new yorkers moving to florida, new yorkers moving to texas, new yorkers moving to north carolina, new york city population loss, new york state population decline, new york migration explained, great american migration, miami wall street south, austin housing affordability, raleigh population growth, remote work migration, internal migration united states, affordability frontier, census bureau new york population, new yorkers leaving new york