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As someone who lives in one of those states, I can tell you why people don't move here. Terrible schools. Not great healthcare. Not a ton of job opportunities. But we have cheap property and low taxes.
People essentialise cost of living, but job opportunity is the more decisive factor. It's the same story in Canada. You can buy a house in Saskatchewan for under $150,000 USD ($200,000 CAD) in a small or mid-sized town and then you realise that there are only limited jobs which pay poorly compared to anywhere else in the country.
Step 1. Get three different full-time online jobs: J1, J2, and J3.
Step 2. Move to Saskatchewan.
Step 3. After 5 years of never spending money and huddling against the elements, you'll have saved enough to make the down payment on a 50 square meter condo in Toronto.
Assuming that you avoid obvious pitfalls like buying avocado toast you too can achieve success and live the #CanadianDream.
as a georgian i'm lowkey surprised south carolina got more influx of ppl from other states than georgia has in this time period, although it's likely for the same reason all these southeastern states are gaining in population
Cheap housing, low taxes, nice weather.... I have no idea why people would want to live in a place like Illinois or Pennsylvania. We all value different things.
That is rude to people from Alabama. I"m from NYC and I'd sooner live in Alabama because it is warmer and has a great coastline. New York City has no natural beauty. Although I was terrified driving down there when I was six with my dad because we had New York plates and it was like My Cousin Vinny without the Brooklyn accents; we thought they'd hate us but they were hospitable. Lol! They were actually very friendly. It was my mother's neurosis and bias that made us all(except my father) a little afraid.
There aren't places of natural beauty in NYC sure, but plenty of places in New York state. The Catskills really aren't that far of a drive out of the city, and the Finger Lakes region is beautiful. Once you get beyond city limits, New York is like something entirely new--people are immediately nicer, there's waaay less congestion, housing is cheaper.
I don't necessarily think such observations should be deemed too political for discussion. While claims that assert one political party's superiority over another should warrant resetting comments, simply noting trends from the quiz, as here we see that generally people are leaving Democratic-leaning states and moving towards Republican-leaning ones, is a factual observation. It doesn't inherently imply a political bias or permit a debate but rather allows everyone to draw their own conclusions from the data.
Idaho is incredibly beautiful and has relatively low taxes, so people are moving there from Washington, Oregon, and California, which are increasingly unaffordable. Of course, the infrastructure and social services reflect the low tax rates, but as someone who hates hot weather, I'd move there over any of the other states on this list!
Similar to Arizona 40 years ago and Nevada 10 years ago: Relative proximity to the West Coast, lower housing costs due to low density (though prices have skyrocketed in Boise/Meridian and Couer d'Alene since the pandemic), and natural beauty.
I was surprised about Alabama as Birmingham, Mobile, and Montgomery are all losing population, but then Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and the next 10 largest cities after Tuscaloosa are all growing, up to 16th Gadsden at 32,000 people
Step 2. Move to Saskatchewan.
Step 3. After 5 years of never spending money and huddling against the elements, you'll have saved enough to make the down payment on a 50 square meter condo in Toronto.
Assuming that you avoid obvious pitfalls like buying avocado toast you too can achieve success and live the #CanadianDream.
Republic states = arriving
It wouldn't effect this quiz too much, as this is people who move from one state to another.
Also: Mormonism.