# Cities are not going away

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2021-02-04

chicago-council-on-global-affairs, covid-19, pandemic, survey, the-harris-poll, urban-living, urbanism, urbanite

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Here are the results from [a recent survey](https://theharrispoll.com/cities-are-not-going-away-according-to-urban-dwellers/) by The Harris Poll and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which asked 1,200 residents from the six largest metropolitan areas in the US how they were feeling about urban and suburban life during this pandemic. (The exact timing was last fall.)

The bar color indicates where the respondent current lives. So for example, of the respondents who currently reside in an outer suburb (blue bar), 73% said that they wouldn't change where they live. They seem to be feeling pretty good about their life decisions right now.

But for respondents who live in an urban area (black bar), 50% also said that they wouldn't change where they live. And interestingly enough, 25% of all respondents living in a city responded by saying that they were actually _more likely_ to move to another urban area. ([Perhaps Miami?](https://brandondonnelly.com/2021/01/28/rich-people-and-nerds-in-miami/))

For these urbanites, of which I would include myself, the city is far from dead.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/cities-are-not-going-away)*