Movers list of 2014 places people moving to/from (pensions, weather, spouse)
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what caught my eye was the stat (1 in 4 is a retiree) which I thought was quite high....25%. I expected it to be lower, maybe more like 1 in 10 or 10%, since from what I've read most people do retire in place. Maybe the baby boom generation is changing that to a larger degree.
Here in TN we get so many people retiring from the upper Midwest. So many people in our area (a transplant mecca) are from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio. I know we are marketed more there, but it's so common that when people hear we are from the west coast they are surprised.
eta: New York too, we get a lot of New Yorkers, and FL halfbacks.
The only way to fix this - - - is to stop talking on City Data about these places
That's why I love it when all the City Data folks talk about retiring to Florida, SC, NC, Tennesse, etc. You don't see many discussions about retiring to Oregon, Washington, Colorado, or Idaho which would be my first picks. But as evidenced by the movers list, some do find these places to be desirable.
That's why I love it when all the City Data folks talk about retiring to Florida, SC, NC, Tennesse, etc. You don't see many discussions about retiring to Oregon, Washington, Colorado, or Idaho which would be my first picks. But as evidenced by the movers list, some do find these places to be desirable.
Oregon? People are welcome to come, but you better have a job lined up and if you are retired you better not be coming to get warm! (or dry)
You answered your own question, Escort.
Folks are moving to Idaho to escape so much humanity. We are getting a lot of Californians who think it's now too crowded there.
Other reasons are low crime communities and low housing and cost of living expenses.
You are not exactly correct about lack of jobs in Idaho. There are jobs, but most don't pay well. The south end of the state is doing better economically, but the folks moving here are mostly moving to the panhandle, where the scenery is beautiful. Boise is getting a lot because it's the only large city in Idaho, and where there are more better paying jobs. Not all who move here want to live in the boonies, and Boise is in the warmest area of the state as well.
Some retirees who move here say they want a 4 season state, and some say summers are too hot and too long in other states and they would rather put up with winter than summer.
Others move here because it's a very conservative state.
Hi Mike...
As a retiree that moved to ID about three months ago; from UT, I will agree with the 4-season state and the fact it is a conservative state. However, my biggest reasons were:
Cost of living, including property taxes and prices of homes is a lot less than southern UT.
Camping...might sound strange to some, but for the past six years, when living in UT, I always pulled the trailer to MT, ID, WY for camping trips. So, it seemed like an idea to move to one of those states to cut out a day's travel. Now, at most, I have a one day drive to the camping areas in these three states.
And those Californians worry me. They have all but changed CO, trying to make it what is was in CA.
Yes, very interesting, Loveautumn; thank you for posting that. However, I disagree about "no surprises". First, I had to remind myself that if one in four movers are doing so because of retirement, that means three out of four are doing so for other reasons, which I presume would be mostly job-related. So that explains Washington D.C. as a popular destination; it would not be popular with retirees because of the cost of living but would be popular for careers.
To me, the surprises were Idaho and Vermont, hardly meccas for jobs, but also with the cold winters that retirees presumably avoid. What makes them popular?
I would love to see California among the states people are moving out of because we have way too many people here, but no such luck. I would gladly pay twice the taxes if we could have half the people while retaining the same infrastructure but I realize that's just a fantasy, a dream.
I suspect that CA is a net "moving out of" state but not enough so to have made that particular list.
I know nearly no one who has moved here to retire during the past 20 years (I used to hear of it prior to that). Meanwhile several people I know who've retired have left the state. Some did not even wait for retirement, and did a strategic relo during mid life to their "forever" retirement location.
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Originally Posted by loveautumn
Here's a list from Movers (Allied/United Van Lines) showing the top places people are moving to and from. One in four people moving out of an area indicate retirement as the reason.
Top places folks are moving to:
Oregon South Carolina
North Carolina
Vermont
Florida
Nevada
Texas
...
No real big surprises here but I thought it was interesting to get information from companies that actually move people.
top 4 Surprise me. Why, oh why? (NC is nice but pretty spendy)
VT and OR all but rape you for taxes.
I would say these people did not research C-D before they moved.
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