geographically, many americans have been moving to small cities located beyond congested metropolitan areas, such as minot, north dakota; boone, north carolina; traverse city, michigan; and concord, new hampshire. these small cities are called

micropolitan areas

Explanation:

The small cities like the likes of Boone, Traverse City, Concord, and Minot are cities that fall in the category of micropolitan areas. This basically means that they are well urbanized and well organized, as well as being very close to the metropolitan areas, but are just slightly aside, and are smaller.

More and more Americans have been moving into the micropolitan areas in the past couple of decades. The reasons for this are numerous, with the major ones being:

- these places are much easier to move around

- tend to be safer

- are much less crowded

- there's much less noise

- in general the life is more relaxed in them than in the large metropolitan areas

- they are cheaper and more affordable

this is false

explanation:

just took the test the answer is b.