Well Oldestyle, if you take your partisan rose colored glasses off, you could see that inflation has been coming for a very long time. And exacerbated by a global pandemic that by my recollection in this country, the response that your savior Donald John Trump offered, completely and utterly threw up all over its shoes. So, running back to the OP (in part), here's where Hillary Rodham Clinton, being a career politician, would have been a much better choice to handle the pandemic than the absolute shit show that pretended to be President for four years...and didn't give one shit about actually doing the job.
Again, people are moving to lower cost of living centers..until they start rising in cost as well (happens when more and more people move and demand services like housing, healthcare, etc).