[bobbean]

That doesn't make any sense. You really think remote tech jobs are the leading cause of this population decline in a state of 39 million people?

[dragonwriter]

Remote work (which isn’t just tech, though perhaps more in tech) is a factor, both in people being able to move out and in people not moving in.

Probably an exaggeration to call it the leading cause, though, curtailment of immigration and accelerated retirements compounding the existing trend of taking retirement savings to move somewhere lower CoL are big factors.