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... Like in the Chicago area, the New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas — among the most expensive to live in the U.S. — saw decreases due to people moving out. Though they recorded more births than deaths in 2021, that increase was not enough to offset the migration out of the area. ... “There is clearly a dispersion, but I think it’s a blip,” William Frey, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s metropolitan policy program, Brookings Metro, told The Associated Press. “We’re at one of the lowest levels of immigration in a long, long time, and...