The term "exurban migration" is the same as what is
sometimes called "reverse migration." This is migration in which, instead of moving
from more rural areas to an urban core, businesses and residents move out of a central
city to communities that are outside the central city's ring of
suburbs.
In the past, the trend was for businesses and
people to centralize. Big cities grew up because of this trend. Exurbs (wealthy area
beyond the suburbs) tended to empty and become, at most, bedroom communities or commuter
towns. However, in the past few decades (in the United States, at least) this trend has
reversed. The idea of living in a central city or of having a business located in such
an area has become less popular. As this has happened, suburbs and even exurbs have
boomed.
Exurban migration, then, is this "reverse" movement
out of the cities and into relatively distant, exurban
communities.
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