Is there ever going to be a reason for people to move in the future? It seems to me like it would be climate-based instead of for work as it was in the past.
Millions of people moved to the midwest for automotive jobs. What new industry is going to cause that many people to re-locate these days? I think it wouldn't only happen if something like a drought causing people to move out of the southwest or sever flooding a la Katrina.
> Is there ever going to be a reason for people to move in the future?
Yes.
> It seems to me like it would be climate-based instead of for work as it was in the past.
There may be some point in the future where geography is irrelevant to economic prospects, but that's quite some way off still.
> What new industry is going to cause that many people to re-locate these days?
Even without new regionally concentrated industries (which may still occur and draw people in, but are hard to predict), the collapse of existing regionally-dominant industries will cause people to move for economic reasons -- maybe not all to the same place, but out from places experiencing that kind of collapse to places that aren't.
Even most postmodern industries are geographically clustered, and regional evidence within the US suggests economic prosperity is not getting more even, ergo, migration is likely to continue. Globally, migration is likely to accelerate in the near term. For my forecasts of future immigration, see here:
https://medium.com/migration-issues/a-prophecy-of-immigratio...
Millions of people moved to the midwest for automotive jobs. What new industry is going to cause that many people to re-locate these days? I think it wouldn't only happen if something like a drought causing people to move out of the southwest or sever flooding a la Katrina.