Are you reading about "reverse migration" locally?
It has started here for a while now, perhaps slowly around 2000 tech bubble burst, and then accelarated around 2007-08. However, after Covid people have really started to jump ship.
The reason I say all that, is maybe now it is time to jump ship and leave the west to move eastward. I know for a fact, I am not retiring in the US :)
If I move any more east I am in Russia ;D
But yes, I have heard of a few people heading back to various places, because they aren't getting jobs here.
You got to leap frog :)
Cheaper, better education, better quality of life if you stay in the mountains.