Chicago net migration trends and investor outlook

[Ryan Bird]

I saw an Year end report that talks about negative net migration trend in cook county and especially in the city of Chicago. I’m curious how investors take these numbers. I see such articles on negative net migration starting from 2017 so believe it’s nothing new. Some of the real estate “investing lessons/podcasts” tells me to look at migration /population growth and find cities with positive growth.

Does net migration trend really matters? Curious to see why should someone invest in Chicago even with negative net migration numbers?