A lot of people are preparing for the worst. From Michael Snyder at endoftheamericandream.com:
7 On Your Side Investigates requested from the United States Postal Service how many families requested a change of address and moved to zip codes outside of New York City, and the numbers are big.
In fact, those numbers show that over 246,000 New Yorkers “have filed a change of address request” just since the month of March…
Overall since March, more than 246,000 people have filed a change of address request. That’s an almost 100% increase compared to the same time period in 2019.
Of course people have been moving away from other major cities in very large numbers as well, and this has created a tremendous glut of empty apartments that need to be filled.
