New York Is Losing People at Fastest Pace in America
Bay State exodus 2d only to N.Y
From deep within liberal lines, it's not just taxes and housing, there are too many reasons to count!
Posted on 04/20/2006 11:28:58 PM PDT by neverdem
The 1990's exodus to other states from California and from the Northeast appears to have eased since 2000, but not in metropolitan New York, a Census Bureau analysis says.
The Midwest is still losing residents, and the West is gaining. The South remains a magnet for migrants, but the influx of new residents has declined steeply outside the South Atlantic region.
The analysis, which is being released today, looked only at people moving from one place to another in the United States and did not take into account people arriving from other countries.
Maine, Rhode Island, Maryland and Wyoming, which lost population to other states in the 1990's, have gained residents from elsewhere in the country since 2000.
In five other states — Indiana, Minnesota, Utah, Mississippi and Oklahoma — the pattern was reversed: more people moved out than in from other states.
William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution in Washington, attributed much of the pattern to soaring housing costs.
"In effect, the housing affordability crunch in metro New York is a windfall for nearby areas like Allentown and Poughkeepsie and Southern hot spots like Tampa and Orlando," he said. "And on the West Coast, it's interior California and the rest of the West that is gaining."
In California, on average, 221,000 more people moved out every year than moved in from other states in the 1990's. From 2000 to 2004, the annual average net loss declined to 99,000 as more Californians moved inland from cities on the coast instead of moving to other states. San Bernardino has gained more migrants annually since 2000 than any other metropolitan area.
"It's the next frontier," said Marc J. Perry, who wrote the Census Bureau analysis.
About 183,000 more people left New York State annually than moved in from other states...
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New York Is Losing People at Fastest Pace in America
Bay State exodus 2d only to N.Y
From deep within liberal lines, it's not just taxes and housing, there are too many reasons to count!
Weather is certainly a big factor in the NE. Why suffer through northern winters when you could have a much easier time down south?
I know a guy who's moving to southern Il, where he is from orignially, and his brother pays $1100/year for 20 acres and 2600' house.
Combine the climate with high housing costs and high taxation and you have a perfect storm that is driving people out of the region.
"In effect, the housing affordability crunch in metro New York is a windfall for nearby areas like Allentown
As someone who lives in northeast PA, believe me, it's no windfall. These people bring the low morals and incivility that NYC is famous for, with them.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
SNORT.
We should build a wall at the New York border.
We've experienced a reverse migration from NYC over the last 20 years, which brings the sort of stuff you mention. The worse being grafitti.
And isn't it astonishing that people tend to move away, as somebody already noted, from nanny states seeking to disarm them to places where they can breathe free and take a little responsibility.
Of course, Noo Yawk is so hip, so cool, such ahappening place. But faced with the choice between living the way newsies think we all secretly want to live and living like free people, folks turn out to prefer being unhip and free to being oh so hip and slaves.
Maybe there's hope for us.
Gee, who would have thunk it? People are leaving Blue states due to high taxes and are moving to red states with lower taxes.
I'm stuned I tell ya.
New York City is still attracting the wealthy like crazy. The tax base should remain OK, as the blue collar and government employee types don't exactly contribute much to the tax base, no matter what they think. Not any more.
Interestingly enough, very few Nuyoricans and Dominican Yorks choose South Florida (Miami-Dade/Broward/Palm Beach), due to the fact that its become an expensive part of that state. The Jewish migration from New York/New Jersey to South Florida (especially Palm Beach, North Broward, and even portions of coastal Dade) continues, albeit largely of the upper Middle Class to wealthy, to say nothing of wealthy South Americans.
I was aware that a lot of Puerto Ricans (not just from NY, also from PR itself) had moved to the Lehigh Valley over the past decade or two, but wasn't aware of the Poconos being a magnet as well.
The reverse migration of Nuyoricans to the Island is quite different from that of Dominicans, since most Nuyoricans who move to PR don't do it to retire, they move to PR to work under less stressful conditions and nicer weather.
My secretary, pardon, administrative assistant, is Nuyorican, and boy is she pushy.
I think I dated her once. LOL!
I got a joke about Puerto Ricans/Nuyoricans in Pennsylvania.
I was at nearby Fort Indiantown Gap training with the Guard. A couple of buddies (anglos) and I went to the movies, in Lebanon I think it was. We sat in front of these two girls, who immediately started cussing in Spanish about or choice of seats.
My buddy from Alabama was asking me what they were saying. I told him to forget it.
The girls keep on keeping on about us in Spanish (Pendejos, cabrones, blanquitos, etc.) for a few minutes.
One of them then taps me in the shoulder and with an attitude asks me in English, "Hey, what time is it?". I replied to her IN SPANISH and in my best Puerto Rican accent, "son las dos de la tarde" and give her "the look". Needless to say the two girls froze to death and then left the theater.
My buddies just couldn't stop laughing.
Unfortuately, it appears we have many liberals/greens moving to Montana, a change is in the air and it isn't for the better.
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