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Many fled NYC, some moved to Capital Region, address-change data show | The Daily Gazette
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CAPITAL REGION The anecdotal evidence was there all along: People left COVID hot spots for the relative safety of the Capital Region in 2020.
There were more out-of-state license plates in parking lots; driveways with more cars in them; new faces out for a walk in the neighborhood; downstate residents buying Capital Region houses.
Now, the Capital District Regional Planning Commission has quantified some of the shift. Using U.S. Postal Service data on change-of-address requests, it found a significant number of New York City-area residents moving to the larger Capital Region counties. ....

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