Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too.

The college graduates who fill white-collar jobs in the San Francisco area began to leave in growing numbers about a decade ago.
Working-age Americans with a degree are still flowing into these regions from other parts of the country, often in large numbers.
The college-educated workers who’ve turned away from them are increasingly migrating toward major metros that are still prosperous but not quite so expensive
For every move that anecdotally points to these trends — and the pandemic produced many such anecdotes — it’s trickier to capture these patterns nationwide.