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If they are retirees, and they can sell their heavily property-taxed expensive house in a high cost of living northeast state, they can live very well in a red state. They just need to remember on Election Day why it's cheaper to live in a red state.
If they are still in the workforce, they'll take a cut in pay to go with that cheaper cost of living so the real beneficiaries are northeast retirees.
I'm thinking the surge has to do with the number of people that are baby boomer age and are retiring. I could be wrong.
^ This. Many NYers move to FL, NC and GA, but many just move to NJ, CT or even PA.
Also, retiree and senior citizen aren't necessarily one and the same. I'm sure that there are quite a few retirees that aren't yet 65 and may have been at a job where they just need to put in enough years to collect.
I don't know if people on here think that the NE is the best region to live in, as you have all kinds of people on here.
Because the South has better job opportunities, lower taxes, and a favorable climate.
Doesn't this depend on the state and personal factors? For instance, I believe that NC has a higher unemployment rate than NY, but I know that other things need to be considered.
That article is from 10 years ago. A lot has changed since then. A LOT. No doubt there is still a trend of migration from the NE to the South; but the trend has slowed dramatically. It was at it's peak right around the time this article was posted because that was when the housing boom was really heating up and people could sell a smaller, older house in NJ or Long Island and buy a much larger, newer one in the sunbelt for cash and the sunbelt had generally low unemployment. That's simply not the case at-large anymore. Florida in fact has been posting net-out migration every year since 2007....a HUGE swing in the long time trend of it being one of THE top relocation destinations.
That article is from 10 years ago. A lot has changed since then. A LOT.
You are correct. Actually, the second link the OP posted showed the outmigration rate of 6.1% in the period from 1990 - 2000 slowed to a rate of 4.6% in the period from 2000 - 04. That would indicate a projected downward trajectory to an even smaller rate today. Without any recent data, I'm not sure the OP's premise holds any weight.
If anecdotes are of any value, my partner and I who moved from Houston to Philly a little over two years ago met with another friend for breakfast who made the same move a few months ago. We all love it here. At least there are some of us who are helping to reverse the trend.
That article is from 10 years ago. A lot has changed since then. A LOT. No doubt there is still a trend of migration from the NE to the South; but the trend has slowed dramatically. It was at it's peak right around the time this article was posted because that was when the housing boom was really heating up and people could sell a smaller, older house in NJ or Long Island and buy a much larger, newer one in the sunbelt for cash and the sunbelt had generally low unemployment. That's simply not the case at-large anymore. Florida in fact has been posting net-out migration every year since 2007....a HUGE swing in the long time trend of it being one of THE top relocation destinations.
I read a retirement migration pattern book by state and North Carolina's highest incoming migration, by far, comes from Florida. That is not true with neighboring Tennessee to the west of NC that gets its incoming retirement migration mostly from bordering states with no one state standing out so it tells me that northeast retirees to Florida move half way back. I could be wrong but NC turning blue seems to confirm it. They may come directly from Florida to NC but they are originally from the northeast (and my other guess is also NC has I-95 running through it which makes it more attractive to them than TN).
I'm waiting for a version of the same book based on 2010 census data to see if it's still the same.
When I lived in NC, the trend of people moving from FL to NC was already well underway. And in fact it was actually NOT the retirees...it was mostly young families. They actually weren't all formerly northern transplants. They were either native Floridians or people who moved down there as young children and grew up there. Halfbackers was a trendy thing to say but not necessarily quite as much of a reality.
People are "fleeing" the northeast, and yet every state in the northeast gained population during the last 10 years.
Hmm... I wonder how that happened.
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