Mobility | Migration | Fertility | Automation | One More Rhyme: Inflation

These things tell the current story.

I’ve kicked tires on these types of topics for years now, so I’ll just summarize a couple of general things herein.

In 2020, during the initial throes of COVID, I was doing some work writing articles for an apartment locator service. They focused on the DFW area, so I wrote a lot of articles about that area and its growth from 2010 to 2020 (which was high), and migratory patterns from California to DFW and the east coast to DFW (which is what I did in my own life). It was interesting stuff. Data can be cool, you know? I wouldn’t call myself “data-driven” per se, but it was interesting.

I started thinking more about that stuff then, especially since almost everyone I know from the east coast lives on the east coast still and I don’t, and I also saw some stat around COVID saying that 78% of American women live within 18 miles of their mom, which makes sense given child care costs. Now, my ex-wife was living about 1,100 miles from her mom. We had no kids. My current wife, with whom I have no kids because my sperm is crap, lives within 12 miles of her mom. I guess I’m a lived statistic.