Time spent inside close quarters during the coronavirus pandemic is causing some urbanites to consider moving from the city, a recent Harris Poll shows.
Nearly 40% of U.S. adults living in urban areas indicated they would consider moving “out of populated areas,” compared to 29% of overall respondents. And 43% of urbanites – a significantly higher percentage than of suburban (26%) and rural (21%) residents – said they’d recently browsed real estate websites such as Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com.
“Space now means something more than square feet,” Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema said, according to Axios. “Already beset by high rents and clogged streets, the virus is now forcing urbanites to consider social distancing as a lifestyle.”
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