In apartments, town-homes, and back in the days of the "starter homes" when one could move easily, while making money on the sale, simply does NOT exist right now.
No, the young couples sporting Obama stickers on their minivans and suvs are staying put and voting for libs.
That is not our problem. Mind control is our problem.
There is no doubt that depression slows the rate of movement but the average stay in one location is not changed that much.
And movement from the cities is driven as much by perceived relative prices as anything else, if not more.