[Alberta's Child]

I don’t think it’s out-migration as much as it is birth and death cycles.

Pennsylvania has one of the oldest populations of any state. Outside the major cities it’s even more obvious.

45 of PA’s 67 counties lost population between 2010 and 2020.

[ConservativeInPA]

Pennsylvania has one of the oldest populations of any state

Correct. And what do old people in Pa do? They either die or move to Florida, if they can.

The Census Bureau’s numbers don’t make much sense, or perhaps it’s the writer not being clear, i.e., more than 1 million immigrants. It’s a lot more than a million. I would use the phrase more than 1 million to mean something like 1.1 million, not 2 million. The government is just cooking the books again.

[Captain Walker]

I don’t think it’s out-migration as much as it is birth and death cycles.

A family member visited a friend out there about 20-25 years ago; he described television commercials encouraging young people to stay in the state.

There had been (and may still be) a trend of people attending college out of state (in the south, mostly), lining up a job there, and never looking back.

It's not the flight to sanity that today's migration is, but the exodus from PA is not new.