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While the moving industry is fractured among numerous small business owners and official statistics are tough to come by, one thing is clear: From professionals who are downsizing following a job loss, to students moving back in with their parents, to families fleeing the city for the suburbs, New Yorkers are changing their addresses in droves.
Matt Jahn, who owns Brooklyn-based Metropolis Moving, said he has been inundated with customer requests. It's more demand than he can handle."We are turning people away because we just don't have the capacity," he said."Normally, in a given summer, we spend a bunch on advertising. But we cut it this year because we couldn't afford it. And we have still had amazing demand.
"The first day we could move, we left," said Jaime Welsh-Rajchel. In mid-March, Ms Welsh-Rajchel, a dentist, and her young son, Henry, took refuge from the city with family in Pennsylvania while her husband, Todd Rajchel, a dental anesthesiologist at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick, stayed behind to spend the height of the pandemic intubating Covid patients.
"Everyone wanted to flee New York because it was the epicentre, but at the same time, our movers started getting sick," said Mr Norber, adding that the company lost a dozen workers who either fell ill or were too afraid to come in.
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