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June 9, 2024

DC Elites Spark Boom in Poverty-hit State – Locals Left Living in Cars

MSN – Washington DC’s wealthy remote workers are ditching the nation’s capital for the country roads of West Virginia – pushing up rent costs in the poverty-stricken state and pricing out locals.

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A shift to remote working during the pandemic has enabled DC’s top earners to relocate to rural areas and swap cramped apartments in the bustling city for large homes set among mountains and forests.

Migration trends have historically seen people leave the metro area for wealthy counties in Virginia and North Carolina. But demographers have identified a new trend of movement to West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle.

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