Migration to and from Providence

[JBtwinz]

It's a no brainer that those that move away did so for reasons they only know or care about. If you have found your utopia or paradise it is unrealistic to think your going to have anything good to say about where you came from....those still living in RI have found their home and for better or worse they will stay the course.

The many reasons people move away might not be the same reasons people are looking to call RI their home. I think those that tear down where they originally came from might be trying to reassure themselves of their move to their new location and the shortcomings they are finding there.

To the couple moving to Nevada....good luck, there are so many things to see and do outside the strip and there are a few secret little places that most visitors don't know about around Freemont Street.

Nevada is also a classic example of a place that has some of the highest unemployment, biggest housing bust, and tremendous overbuilding, but it has so much else to offer also.....and there are plenty of people living there just like those in RI that would not live anywhere else.

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by Snowball7

p.s. i just checked about 50 counties
and every single one had substantially
more incoming than outgoing.
that makes me question the validity.

You're probably looking at places you perceive as desireable, i.e. everyone agrees and moves to them.

Click around anywhere in the Midwest, and you'll see many more outgoing.

Overall, outgoing and incoming are 50/50. You need one to happen for the other to happen.

[WhatUpFLA]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

You're probably looking at places you perceive as desireable, i.e. everyone agrees and moves to them.

Click around anywhere in the Midwest, and you'll see many more outgoing.

Overall, outgoing and incoming are 50/50. You need one to happen for the other to happen.

Most people from the Midwest move to Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and the Gulf Coast of Florida.

[Saltatrix]

Overall, outgoing and incoming are 50/50. You need one to happen for the other to happen.

So there is like a toll or some sort of permitting system, in that you can't move into a state until a lot of other people have vacated it? Maybe that's how they do it in Japan.