white flight = moving out of city because of fear, cost, crappy schools, etc. is flight. A white person moving to the boondocks because they want to homestead or live off grid is not "flight".
gentrifier = higher income person/family moving into a city or neighborhood, raising the housing costs by doing so, causing the long time residents to leave because of said costs and changing the culture of said area because the old families don't live there anymore.
White flight is a term used as slant, it isn’t some nuanced term for actually determining the different intentions of movers. If enough white people move for whatever reason then there’ll be someone waiting to paint it as racism.
Schelling’s segregation model comes to mind in these moments but I never see that mentioned, strangely. Oh, the inconvenience of maths that explains things better than divisive and ignorant rhetoric!
> Not surprisingly, those aren't the only two options.
"white flight" == moving out of the area
"colonizer/gentrifier" == moving in to the area
The only remaining option is to never move.