Posted on 01/22/2021 8:52:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's easy to guess the states people are leaving. Can you guess the top states where people are headed?
The above numbers are on a percentage basis of inbound to outbound moves, not absolute numbers.
The report is from North American Moving Services.
People are fleeing California for Texas and Idaho
Illinois, New York, and New Jersey are the three states with the most outbound moves.
The top five inbound states in 2020 are Idaho, Arizona, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina, with Tennessee overtaking South Carolina from the 2019 results.
Florida, Texas, and Colorado round out the top eight states for inbound moves.
Despite pandemic, people continued to move at rates comparable to 2019
Phoenix
Houston
Dallas
Atlanta
Denver
New York
Anaheim, Calif.
San Diego
Chicago
Riverside, Calif.
I am disappointed the report did not have absolute numbers, making the study flawed.
Nonetheless, Idaho is interesting.
Idaho has made the top 10 each year since 2015, most of the time on the top of the list.
Congratulations to Idaho and of course Illinois in reverse, a state I have written about many times.
Q: Why does it take 3 weeks to leave Illinois?
A: Everyone is leaving and that is how long it took to schedule a one-way van out.
"Everyone is leaving. No one is coming," a U-Haul agent told us.
We love it here in Utah. The photo opportunism are endless. There are 7 national parks within 5 hours or so of where we live.
House hunting at this very moment. Leaving Los Angeles for Michigan. Unfortunately MI is a blue state, but just about every county is red except Detroit, Ann Arbor and Lansing.
It’s home for me. So I’m going back to the area I love. It’s green and has trees. I will however miss the weather here in Southern California. Won’t miss the illegals, the high cost of living, the politics, and the electrical grid which has gone down bi-weekly for us for the past 2 years. Prior to that it hardly ever went down. But the fires changed everything around here.
All the exodus does is spread socialism.
I always think of one of my former coworkers when I read these stories. He fled Illinois several years ago because of “Illinois taxes and politics.” So, what does he do? He moves to Florida and continues to vote Democrat, voting for the same type of policies that made him leave Illinois.
Not sure about that, since it looks like Texas and Arizona are turning blue.
Bkmk
Wouldn’t it stand to reason its a lot of conservatives that are leaving the liberal heck holes?
Family settled in Idaho around 1919. I spent time growing up there. We spent a lot of time visiting relatives in Idaho — my last uncle passed last year in Twin Falls at age 99. We visited him every year for 35 years. I’ve got relations buried all over the state, too many to count. We bought a second house in the Panhandle three years ago.
Just a few connections. Now stay away!
Looking for new nests to foul.
A lot of good conservatives are leaving as well.
Signal Mtn, TN.
Red states are SCREWED! OOOHHHH BBOOOYYY! I’ve been seeing a lot of cali plates here🙁... A lot of those people are poison because of their voting habits ....they’re like Locusts... Destroy and devour! Texas is almost at the tipping point of no return. Illegals and migrants from other blue city states are rapid in our state big time! Austin used to be a pretty OK place now it’s a cesspool they’re all poisoning the waters with their liberalism and socialism...now it’s just a matter of time I’m afraid.
Down staters in Illinois are fleeing in droves. I live 12 miles from the IN border and would like to move to IN but the real estate prices in indiana within 20 miles of the state line are crazy
Not the people I talk to. A couple of young men from California were going to relocate to Tennessee and were asking about the registration requirements and magazine limits for guns. I told them that Tennessee was a free state and you were limited to the biggest magazine you could buy.
A fair amount of the farm fields that surrounded my area 20 years ago are now covered in new homes. There is a new development area on the northeast area of town that is still building out. The buyers coming in should be aware that the local job market is not going to support the kind of income they will need to cover the sky high mortgages should they lose their employment. Most work in town is retail/restaurant/help desk.
I live in Utah also It’s becoming a blue state more & more every year. SL County is a given, but Utah County is rocketing to the top. I can’t wait to leave.
From what I hear, no, they bring their attitudes and assumptions with them. Southern New Hampshire, home to refugees from the Gay State, is more conservative than NH at large though, which would seem to confirm your hypothesis. People are much better at recognizing a pleasant place to live than recognizing what makes a place a pleasant place to live.
Thanks for the advice. I’ve been relying on this article for retirement tax advice,
https://www.kiplinger.com/kiplinger-tools/retirement/t055-s001-state-by-state-guide-to-taxes-on-retirees/index.php
I made up a spreadsheet of many states for our particular balance of incomes and home prices.
For us and a 300K home, the lowest tax load 1-5 was WY, NV, KY, ID and TN. The difference between these wasn’t large. If I was still working it would be different I’m sure.
I want warmer, but I still want seasons, more conservative and friendly (MN Nice used to be real).
I’ve been hoping the KY governor is a temporary anomaly, but I suppose the larger cities dominate the state politics there too.
I live in a small community in the California Central Valley.
I am in my 70s and the wife in her 60s. Our home is paid for, and we have family and deep roots here. But I have been researching where we could move if things got really bad.
Being retired and with savings we can live off of our Social Security. So we would not have any problem financially leaving. But leaving means leaving our family support, church support and everything we know about getting around our community.
So moving is not our first option but it is an option.
I am looking into Texas as a destination, not one of the big cities but a small community.
Right now I am also making a list of things that would trigger a move. The big one would be repeal of prop 13.
Sometimes I think living a long time is not a blessing.
That should be posted on all interstate roads into TX.
Thanks, I’ll take a look. We did take about a 3 hour look at Chattanooga this summer. Not enough to get to know the area, but wasn’t seeing what we were looking for. But I do like the Appalachians.
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