Summary: <p>As the president continues his verbal assault on America's urban centers, presenting nightmare scenarios of what will happen to the suburbs absent his protection, the story of a pandemic-induced mass migration from cities has proliferated in the media: families fleeing increasingly hellish virus-infested urban wastelands, making their way into the safe, idyllic suburbs where bluebirds sing, kids roam free and there’s a Mattress Firm in every strip mall. </p> <p>It all makes so much sense. But it's not true.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jandrews81/status/1298345076419170304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1298345076419170304%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.curbed.com%2F2020%2F8%2F31%2F21404333%2Fsuburbs-housing-boom-urban-exodus-coronavirus">Jeff Andrews</a> wrote about this media myth in a recent Curbed article called <a href="https://www.curbed.com/2020/8/31/21404333/suburbs-housing-boom-urban-exodus-coronavirus">No, the Pandemic Is Not Emptying Out America’s Cities</a>. In this podcast extra, Andrews joined Bob to dissect the tale of the urban flight that wasn't. </p>
