By now it's well known. Work-from-home led to many people moving to locales where they could work remotely initially and later in hybrid solutions since heading into the office wasn't required at the peak of COVID-19. And even now it isn't mandatory all the time at many companies nationwide.

Employees have favored all sorts of locations, from their weekend and vacation homes to brand new sites in a different climate, places closer to family or because they offered greater affordability.

Smaller towns and suburbs, some in bucolic settings and far less congested and expensive, experienced a big influx, according to Placer.ai, which notes in a recent report that this accelerated domestic relocation trend began even before the pandemic. And it's continuing now and may, in part if the WFH trend continues.