For years, college grads have favored big, expensive metros even as non-grads have moved away. But that has changed, and it started before the pandemic. New story/ interactive lookup today with @emilymbadger and @jshkatz www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html Here are some notes on method:

The challenge in reporting this story is that while the Census Bureau has various place-to-place migration files, they don’t break things down the way we wanted - by metro and education level.