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Some economists believe the pandemic has turbocharged what was an already inevitable decline for so-called superstar cities
By
Nick Allen,
Washington Editor,
Washington DC
;
Josie Ensor,
US Correspondent,
New York City
and
Margi Murphy,
US Technology Reporter,
San Francisco
27 February 2021 • 7:00am
According to data from the US Postal Service, New York lost a staggering 110,978 people last year
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After the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic ripped through America s cities a little known beach town in Florida called Miami saw its population quintuple in seven years to 150,000 as people fled the metropolises.
A century later, a similar phenomenon is underway, sparked by Covid-19, combined with the exponential rise of teleworking, and the crippling unaffordability of housing in city centres.