Climate change has some moving to the Midwest

Purple flowers in a field.
Lupine flowers along Highway 61 north of Grand Marais, Minn.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News

Go Midwest, young man?

That’s the title of a recent piece in TIME Magazine that touts the Midwest as a place people will likely move to in the future. So which factors make the Midwest a potentially attractive place to relocate?

Alana Semuels, the author of that piece, shared more from her reporting.

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