After years of eating metropolis dust and being derided as merely bedroom communities, small to medium-sized towns across America are enjoying a boom in popularity. In part, they have COVID-19 to thank for it.
“During the pandemic, when remote working was enforced, the concept of ‘Zoom towns’ became a phenomenon,” wrote Snejana Farberov earlier this year in the New York Post. “These remote suburbs and rural areas soon saw an influx of city workers ridding themselves of their cramped apartments and homes in favor of larger and more affordable living.
“Young adult populations in most rural counties were accompanied by a surge in incomes, suggesting that many were able to hold on to their remote work arrangements in the postpandemic years.”…