Posted on 12/27/2009 9:22:48 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I slipped a line, NY has the highest rate of people moving out in the country.
dammit, did it again, it’s MICHIGAN
I hear it all of the time. I hold my tongue but I sometimes want to take them on. I'd ask them would you move to SF and complain about the gays, Gulfport Miss. and complain about the oil workers, Pittsburgh and complain about steel, or NYC and complain about the aholes? Of course not. Most people know what an area is like before they move there unless they're morons or arrogant and expect things to change just because they show up. I would then follow with if things are so great where you came from then what are you doing here?
Been done already - Vermont.
Exactly. They try to treat the locals like the hired help and can’t figure out why the small town folk have such an “attitude”. “Gosh, why did these locals get pissed-off when I bought out the local diner, cut everybody’s pay in half, violate every labor law in the book, treat them like my butler, and try to pick up on their daughters?” Then they proceed to import cheap Mexican labor and leave when the place becomes a rural ghetto.
“Ohio is another Rust Belt state going through economic turmoil, much of it tied to the auto industry.”
That’s a rather superficial analysis. Industries grow and industries shrink. This has always been the case. The real story is why nothing new ever comes to N.E. Ohio.
And the answer is the adversarial attitude towards business here.
Until that changes (and it won’t happen in my life time), things will continually get worse here.
Hey, maybe that’s why I’m a pessimist!
“A lot of Californians moved to neighboring Rocky Mountain states, which showed up in the 2008 election results.”
Yes, and they’ve certainly and prohibitively driven up the cost of land.
Have to respectively disagree with you Spike on that one.
My wife and I will be moving out of state as soon as she retires (three years). One of the main reasons we are moving is because of the toxic socialist atmosphere of those in control of the state.
I bet the majority of people in California moving east are conservative. Those moving north to Oregon and Washington are the liberals. Oregon and Washington are already lost to the libs so the net impact on those states is zero.
Yes, but they are not all there yet. Maybe we can all chip in for a private subsidy to get them there???
Not N.D. too much oil up there in a field called the Bakken waiting to be pumped out of the ground.
• Don't mess with Texas: More Americans moving in
Net loss: 31,690 residents
Like its next-door neighbor, New Jersey has been a Mecca for foreign in-migration.
That helped save the Garden State in the year ended July 1, when it posted its best showing since 2002, with just 32,000 more people abandoning the state than adopting it. That compares with almost 77,000 in 2006, it's worst showing of the decade.
Yes ILLEGAL IMMIGANTS love it here! We fund everything for them. Walk into any post office and you'll see them with wads on money like a gas station attendant. They send it back to Mexico - tax free!
Some cities like Newark, Trenton and Camden are war zones. SHHHH even cops don't want to go into that jungle. We wink at crime.
Yes sireee if you can MOVE OUT OF NEW JERSEY!
Even with Christie in there as governor the state is still run by RINOS and Demoncrats and is VERY corrupt. Most of our government official are under indictment or in prison.
They moved to the Western Slope and immediately supported politicians who raised local taxes to build gyms, water slides, and ball fields in the middle of God's greatest natural recreation areas
I qualified my statement.
S’OK.
In CA, I suspect there is a correlation between the illegal immigration and the people leaving the state.
Unfortunately, California through illegal aliens in the census count, has 6 more congressmen than they deserve.
Due to California’s numbers and Electoral College bloc voting, Democrats start every presidential election with 20% of the required votes in their pockets without even needing to spend a dime out there to compete.
Your are right. They would never want to drill. How will they stay warm? Hm...
Someone else suggested Vermont. No problem with that since there are so many there already.
I’d be willing to give them 3 states, Michigan being one of the 3 and the other 2 would be the ones with the crappiest weather...Like Illinois (because of Chicago) Not sure which the 3rd one would be....I have lived and complained in Michigan all my life, but that might get this old lady out.
If you love Mexico (not the Americanized part) you'll love it here. Of course the liberals live on the hill in gated communities...even though they don't believe in "fences"...what hypocrites....and the rest of us get to live in barrios...
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