Anthony Giusti stands outside a home he is painting in Houston on March 23, 2022. The San Francisco-area native left the Bay Area last year and moved to Houston where he started a home-painting business. He was one of tens of thousands of people who left the biggest metro areas in the U.S. and moved to Sunbelt metros during the first full year of the pandemic, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday, March 24. (AP)
