[CTartist]

Originally Posted by JayCT

We discuss this annual “report” every year. It is flawed at best. It only includes data from one moving company which hardly reflects moving patterns accurately. Jay

I don't think the link I put up with all the years is flawed. Is it perfect, probably not but so are all the charts and graphs you will see. Let's keep looking at every year and compare it to the birth rate (and thus requirement rates) of the baby boomers. I bet it will take the pattern I have been saying all along. We just need another 10 years to go when the last of the baby boomers like me will be retiring. Instead of just discounting it let's keep looking every year.

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by CTartist

I don't think the link I put up with all the years is flawed. Is it perfect, probably not but so are all the charts and graphs you will see. Let's keep looking at every year and compare it to the birth rate (and thus requirement rates) of the baby boomers. I bet it will take the pattern I have been saying all along. We just need another 10 years to go when the last of the baby boomers like me will be retiring. Instead of just discounting it let's keep looking every year.

[Lalalally]

A report just came out this week. We are the #4 state with the fastest migration OUT/ shrinking population, after Illinois, New York, and New Jersey.

[CTartist]

Originally Posted by Lalalally

A report just came out this week. We are the #4 state with the fastest migration OUT/ shrinking population, after Illinois, New York, and New Jersey.

It makes perfect sense that a pattern that has been going on for decades (people moving down south in retirement) is at it's peak now that the peak of the baby boomers (like my husband and brother) are in their first retiring years. It is so logical I don't understand how others don't "get it".

My husband is 64 but is waiting for full retirement at 66 to stop working. I have no doubt there are scores of people in CT my husbands age who have retired at 62 and flew the CT coup. My brother who is 63 was going to move at 62 down south decided not to yet because his entire immediate family (including his parents) are still in FFC.

[CTartist]

I am going to tell you some of my other observations. COUPLES move down south in retirement. When one spouse dies and there is one left many surviving spouses run out of money. Take a guess what I am observing.

When the surviving spouse runs out of money down south they move back to CT to get the goodies like subsidized housing. Let me tell you that pisses me off to no end. Here is a new law I would like to see in CT. There should be a residency law for a certain amount of years or no goodies to the people who move down south and move back to CT for the handouts.

[Eolector]

We left in 2014 after 35 years... both boomers. There were MANY places nicer than the People's Republic of Long Rivers and no reason whatsoever to stay. (Great pizza was NOT enough incentive to remain.)

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by CTartist

I don't think the link I put up with all the years is flawed. Is it perfect, probably not but so are all the charts and graphs you will see. Let's keep looking at every year and compare it to the birth rate (and thus requirement rates) of the baby boomers. I bet it will take the pattern I have been saying all along. We just need another 10 years to go when the last of the baby boomers like me will be retiring. Instead of just discounting it let's keep looking every year.

The link connects to the United Van Lines annual “report”. Every year we go through this when it comes out. Their data is flawed since it only includes only one moving company’s data. That means it is not comprehensive and is therefore inaccurate.

The pattern you note is not new. It’s been going on for decades. Certainly since the baby boomers parents began retiring 50+ years ago. It is just in the past decade or so that United found they could get some free publicity by publishing a “report”. Jay

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by Eolector

We left in 2014 after 35 years... both boomers. There were MANY places nicer than the People's Republic of Long Rivers and no reason whatsoever to stay. (Great pizza was NOT enough incentive to remain.)

And yet some people prefer it to NC (myself included).

Different strokes...

[Lalalally]

Originally Posted by CTartist

It makes perfect sense that a pattern that has been going on for decades (people moving down south in retirement) is at it's peak now that the peak of the baby boomers (like my husband and brother) are in their first retiring years. It is so logical I don't understand how others don't "get it".

My husband is 64 but is waiting for full retirement at 66 to stop working. I have no doubt there are scores of people in CT my husbands age who have retired at 62 and flew the CT coup. My brother who is 63 was going to move at 62 down south decided not to yet because his entire immediate family (including his parents) are still in FFC.

I think it’s the high taxes and economy more than climate that’s driving regular people out of our state at an alarming rate this moment
We have a definite 2 more years here to get through and then we are free. Pretty sure we will stick it out beyond that though, as we are both very settled in our careers and have many more working years left in us, and are a little too old at this point to make a cosmic shift in career paths.
That said, if we want to stay somewhat quasi local (ie close enough to remaining family in NYC), it won’t be CT that we choose, but possibly northeast PA which looks pretty attractive for our retirement needs and wants.

[retiree2011]

Originally Posted by Lalalally

I think it’s the high taxes and economy more than climate that’s driving regular people out of our state at an alarming rate this moment
We have a definite 2 more years here to get through and then we are free. Pretty sure we will stick it out beyond that though, as we are both very settled in our careers and have many more working years left in us, and are a little too old at this point to make a cosmic shift in career paths.
That said, if we want to stay somewhat quasi local (ie close enough to remaining family in NYC), it won’t be CT that we choose, but possibly northeast PA which looks pretty attractive for our retirement needs and wants.

I retired in Delaware, also a good place for retirement. Penn. is not too bad, though. Good luck, wherever you go.