Americans are moving out of big cities. Cost, quality of life and the pandemic are shifting decades of population growth patterns. So where do Americans want to live now?
Time’s review made only passing references to trademark Greater Minnesota features such as Rochester’s Mayo Clinic, the Iron Range/Duluth mining and shipping complex and the state's rich farmscape.
Research by Ben Winchester with the University of Minnesota found a migration of people ages 30-49 to rural areas in search of the attributes Prairie Waters markets for four counties in western Minnesota.