Considering there is no regional specific trends and the highest % of jobs are actually in white collar jobs (pro services, healthcare, etc.), I think its fair to assume this data represents the whole of the US...no matter where you live.
You should re-read my comment - I was inferring this was the case (to your point) based on the regional numbers. It's not perfect but it's indicative. I didn't have the time to dig into more data.
> If there were 10,000,000 jobs in NYC and 1 job in Kansas or 10,000,000 jobs in Kansas and one in NYC, the graphs would look the same.
These numbers are irrelevant anyway because they're always going to be correlated in some way to local population (thus per capita is important here)
You should also check housing prices in states like Kansas, they're all through the roof - https://www.zillow.com/ks/home-values/ - in other words people aren't magically leaving these places for major metros (people follow jobs).
Anyway took some digging but here is some data that explains it better:
For example - Ohio has 231k openings compared to NY's 345k with a fraction of the overall population.
So, no, leaving a major metro doesn't mean there "aren't any jobs". Quite the opposite actually. This has been talked about endless in media for the last 12 months, so it's no surprise the data supports it.
I guess you missed the 13.6% delta increase in the last year...I meant through the roof relative to previous years. Not sure how you interpreted that any differently given the context...
So your statement was about 2nd order price growth vs the first order prices themselves? You literally said “the prices were through the roof”, not the growth. Yes something that is really cheap can experience rapid price growth and still be relatively cheap.
> You literally said “the prices were through the roof”, not the growth.
Maybe english is not your first language but when something is "through the roof" it means it raises at a very rapid rate. In other words, speaking to the velocity, not the overall speed.
> Yes something that is really cheap can experience rapid price growth and still be relatively cheap.
You're being overly pedantic about this for no reason. Put this into the context of the discussion. Yes, moving from San Francisco, CA to Wichita, KS will mean your cost of living will drastically decrease. The discussion is about whether there are jobs in Wichita. People will naturally migrate where jobs are and a rapid growth in housing costs (i.e. demand outpaces supply) means people are staying where the jobs are.
Again this has been all talked about in the daily news cycle. Covid has allowed a significant portion of the population to virtually live wherever they want. Thus people are moving from large cities and suburbs to more rural locations. Thus jobs are opening up in these areas (think Wichita) because both remote workers are moving there and then local markets that can't be remote (think retail) will grow as a result.
> Maybe english is not your first language but when something is "through the roof" it means it raises at a very rapid rate.
English is my first language, but I get your meaning now. It wasn't that Kansas property was expensive, just that it went from very very cheap to just very cheap very quickly.
Fair. But "cheap" is relative. Most people who don't work in tech that would from <insert big city here> to <insert small city here> are going to get wages relative to their living cost. So "very cheap" isn't really a thing anymore.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/o...
Considering there is no regional specific trends and the highest % of jobs are actually in white collar jobs (pro services, healthcare, etc.), I think its fair to assume this data represents the whole of the US...no matter where you live.