City life is so overrated. There is nothing I can’t get from the local Walmart... or online.
The internet brings many city advantages to the country such as extensive shopping and ways to socialize with anyone else in the world. Self-driving cars with sleeping quarters will enable people to live much farther from their city jobs. Factories have always avoided ultra high density high rise cities but these semi-rural jobs have been lost China, which is a big unmentioned part of the migration away of young people. The coming robotics wave may bring some high pay manufacturing jobs back to semi-rural areas. The article neglected to mention that much of the city population growth is from massive immigration from third world countries, needed because Democrat city voters don't reproduce at replacement levels. Trends go in cycles and it may soon be trendy again to move away from the polluted and overpopulated concrete and steel communist insane asylums. The first terrorist nuclear attack may set that migration off. Enjoy the peace and solitude of the countryside while it lasts.