Economics

More People Are Leaving NYC Daily Than Any Other U.S. City

The Manhattan skyline is seen here from the Williamsburg neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 9, 2015.Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg

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By Wei Lu and Alexandre Tanzi

August 29, 2019 at 6:30 AM EDT

Corrected

August 29, 2019 at 6:01 PM EDT

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Scores of people are leaving the New York City area behind every day.

New York leads all U.S. metro areas as the largest net loser with 277 people moving every day -- more than double the exodus of 132 just one year ago. Los Angeles and Chicago were next with triple digit daily losses of 201 and 161 residents, respectively.

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