Americans Can't Wait To Get Out Of These Five States
A low cost of living, no sales tax, and beautiful scenery (oh, naked bike rides, more strip clubs per capita than any other US city, and legalized weed) means Oregon is the "top moving destination" for Americans for the third year running, according to United Van Lines, with 69% of moves inbound. But, which states are Americans leaving in droves?
Americans continue to pack up and head West and South, according to new data from United Van Lines.
Oregon is the most popular moving destination of 2015 with 69 percent of moves to and from the state being inbound. The state has continued to climb the ranks, increasing inbound migration by 10 percent over the past six years. New to the 2015 top inbound list is another Pacific West state, Washington, which came in at No. 10 with 56 percent inbound moves.
Moving In - The top inbound states of 2015 were:
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Vermont
- Idaho
- North Carolina
- Florida
- Nevada
- District of Columbia
- Texas
- Washington
The Northeast continues to experience a moving deficit with New Jersey (67 percent outbound) and New York (65 percent) making the list of top outbound states for the fourth consecutive year. Two other states in the region — Connecticut (63 percent) and Massachusetts (57 percent) — also joined the top outbound list this year. The exception to this trend is Vermont (62 percent inbound), which moved up two spots on the list of top inbound states to No. 3.
Moving Out - The top outbound states for 2015 were:
- New Jersey
- New York
- Illinois
- Connecticut
- Ohio
- Kansas
- Massachusetts
- West Virginia
- Mississippi
- Maryland
Simply put, Americans are moving from heavily-regulated, bureaucratic, high cost-of-living states to more affordable states.
This year's data from United Van Lines...
And the interactive version from the last 39 years...
Finally, as The Daily Signal concludes,
Moving patterns show how important cost of living is to American families.
With perfect weather and a booming, high-tech economy, California ought to be the #1 destination. Instead, more moving trucks are leaving the state than entering.
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There's more than one species, maybe depending on where you life, and they're out and about at different times of day. Also carry more than one (maybe more than two) disease(s).
And stopping for green lights and then running through them when they turn red...
People drive in Fla? Half the cars on the road that I saw, looked to be unmanned. I hardly ever saw a head in the seat. Hell, I seldom same an entity that could see over the dash!
FORWARD SOVIET!
Half the vehicles in FL couldn't pass a safety inspection. Really scary ... and sad.
Yankees (erm, people from the urban NE), do not move to Florida!
Also, rednecks out the wazoo! Mosquitos! Lots of you are already down here!
Swamps!
Especially do not come if you're, um, a liberal. Have enough of 'em already.
Florida is where yankees come to die.
I hate yankees.
Cold hearted mean people with no soul.
Gasoline prices are so high it will give you a heart attack!
I bet you really hate Ohioans.
Fucking Ohioans. Assholes who don't know how to drive. Laying low in the fast lane driving 55 mph without acknowledging the speed limit is 70 and won't get over. Dirty trashy state...
So true!
Lower cost of living cannot be the only reason, however. I myself reside in the fair magnolia state (Mississippi for some of y'all) and we still have one of the lowest COLs in the country. We have had a lot put out of work with the gulf oil rigs being shut down this past year though, but they are not moving. Must be the few yanks we still have down here is my guess, which is fine by us! A bunch of freaks that dont know the meaning of "you dont air your dirty laundry in public"
I havea high regard for people from Mississippi.
They have the guts to keep their flag unchanged.
As a public service:
Liberals would not be happy here in Texas. The state is entirely too small, crowded, and freezing cold all year long. Besides that, the fishing's no good.
Worst thing about Tx. is the racist Latinos
Jobs are good. Just not a lot to do
Florida is hit n miss. It ain't all Mickey mouse. You make a wrong turn in a big city you can end up in the ghetto. Was shocked to hear about linemen needing police escorts in some neighborhoods as theyd be fires upon while working.
I see why some go to NC but don't see the draw to SC.
South Carolina is a more interesting state than you might expect. Great place when I was a kid for some 5 years there.
Yeah, SC is a fucking cloudy, cold, icy wasteland. Zero in the way of social services and free shit. And the locals? Man, it's like the cast of Deliverance, except they're all armed and aggressive like someone raised the price of admission @ Thunderdome (to $1.00). Lots of banjo noise at night, not to mention the smell of rotting shit. Let me tell you, there is a LOT of difference between the smell of cow shit, pig shit, sheep shit, chickenshit, and horseshit. Like an expert sommelier, SC residents can distinguish the type of animal (and what they most recently ate) just by driving by. Also, you can see the lights from the 'stills after dark, kind of like 'refinery row' on the Jersey Turnpike. About once a week, one of these explodes, turning 100s of surrounding acres into a smouldering Centralia-esque disaster envirnomental zone. If you are a Lying Lefty looking for a new place to 'gentrify', FLEE, FLEE for your lives!!!!!!
I see what you did there +1
Upstate SC is a paradise for a nature-loving, warm-weather person who doesn't want to be drowned in politically correct bullshit and doesn't want to suffer an obnoxious cost of living.
I lived out there many moons ago managing a bunch beverage carts of golf courses when I was a young pup. I liked it there. The very north end and the southern coast of NC is pretty awesome, or was anyway.
I bet you have a good story or two about "beverage girls" working for tips. :)
Shut up. You are full of shit. It is the absolute worst place on Earth for anyone to live.
Are you an idiot? STOP ADVERTISING. When others move there it will fuck up your corner on paradise, Shhhhhhhhh..
Zactly how the remaing Native Floridians feel...shhhhh ;-)
Never took you for a Seminole, funny old world eh?
Yes, it is. For all intents and purposes, the Seminole is Creek. I claim Creek ancestry through my mothers bloodline.
Like most of us, I'm a mutt ;-)
That's EXACTLY what happened to Oregon.
It's been Californicated.
Man those people coming to Florida are in for a shock, alligators, snakes and mosquitoes the size of pterodactyls.
And fucking Yankees as far as the eye can see, driving with their left turn signal on, in the right lane...for miles & miles ;-)
Speak the truth, brother nmewn. Been a citizen of this state since 1994. Seen a lot of changes. Not too sure if any were for the better. Went from having Jeb Bush for a governor to Charlie ( No, really, I'm not gay ) Crist to Governor Skeletor ( aka Rick Scott )
And all of them corportist whores.
Don't forget humidity, heat, hurricanes, Al Pachino with a chainsaw, sharks, Jeb, mint daiquiris, fat old people in bikinis ...
And a couple of those fat assed Kardashian whores down in Miami. Or did those skanks move back Hellifornia ?
I don't follow that shit, I wouldn't know. ;-)
Neither do I. Just happened to be surfing the boob toob in a hotel while on business and came across the opening sequence to a show with O.J. Simpson's daughter, Khloe and the little short bitch sister ( I can't think of her name ) shaking their fat asses on a yacht in Miami. The title song had something about Miami as well.
That's all I know. Promptly turned the channel.
There are almost 100 species of mosquitoes in Florida. Mosquitoes all year long.
NM, don't forget sinkholes.
I am old enough to remember driving in Florida when it was safe, when people actually let you in in traffic and did other nice things. Then the New Yorkers came....
Like the Northern Star as a constant.....Illinois is ALWAYS Yellow.....
Oregon has no sales tax but crushingly high income tax and high property tax, especially in the Portland area, where the roads are just linear parking lots most of the day.
Vancouver, WA offers no income tax with sales tax free shopping just over the bridge in Portland + great food, night life, etc
A friend in Portland pays $8,000 property tax a year on a $500K house.
And the Oregon state income tax rate hits 9% at just $9,000 of taxable income.
And it's chilly most of the year.
PNW summers are incredible - you folks have NO idea what you're talking about.
Everybody should move to PNW!
Indeed they are. That's mostly because for nine months out of the year you don't see blue skies so when the sun comes out, everyone goes nuts.
Are you as dumb as you look? Stop advertising, FFS!
come to NJ and pay $9500 in taxes for a $400k home, Christie has you beat.
You dudes are pikers. I pay right at $5k for a condo I own valued at $160k in shitcago. Neighborhood turned to shit because aforementioned negroids moved in
Ad valorem taxes in New Jersey are ridiculously high. In New Jersey, government owns your house!
income tax in OR is NOT "crushingly high", and property tax (outside PDX) is a joke... like $1k-2k/yr.
and i've never heard anyone else complain about PDX traffic (apart from 205 @ rushhour).
9% FLAT income tax is FAR WORSE than any sales tax rate, unless of course you are a peasant who earns diddly income.
One of my homes is in Beaverton, have had it for 34 years, and the traffic has grown from OK to strangulation over that period, enough that I have to plan my travel around the time of day so as to not waste the day in traffic. Trying to get in/out of Portland during the morning and afternoon laborer's commuting periods is an excellent way to waste hours sitting in crawling traffic, and if there is an accident or stalled car on the westside HWY26, then you will be stuck there the rest of the day.
Maybe I'm your 'hood. In mine, a $500k house costs $7000/yr.
Isn't Oregon total tax burden fairly high up there?
WA & OR have 'mirror opposite' tax schemes...
WA = high sales taxes, no income tax (up to $250k)
OR = zero sales tax, 9% income tax (note: OR incomes/wages are on the low side relative to other west coast states)
So, yes, VancouverWA is as close to a 'tax haven' as you'll find in the lower 48... live/earn in WA, shop in OR.
Sounds like a Georgia/Florida game.
(except for the mosquitos, gators, west nile disease, chickengunya, aids, hiv, ecoli seawater, hate crimes, hurricanes, el ninos, gulf oil spills, ww2 U-boat diseases, etc, etc.
Hell, it's not even safe to go out to a restaurant for dinner any moar after dark.