Everyone wrote off the Midwest, you know, the flyover states, the places where young people leave. But the Census Bureau just told us something interesting. The Midwest is the only region in America where every single state grew last year. Everyone.

Not California, not New York, but the Midwest. I don’t know if it’s the cost or the pace or something harder to name. Maybe we traded the affordable for the aspirational.

And now we’re trading back. The coasts still get the attention, but the middle, it’s quietly filling up. It’s funny how the overlooked places have a way of becoming the chosen ones.

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