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Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada were the most interesting to me. They all had considerable migration from every region of the US, plus international.
For CO and NV, I'd say it's the Rockies/skiing and Las Vegas respectively, which attract a specific personality type respectively. Arizona, I have no idea.
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There are two big trends: - External immigration to large population centers in New York, California, Washington state, the Washington DC area and Illinois. - Inward migration of Americans leaving those denser areas to states such as TX, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, etc. where land is cheaper and the standard of living is higher for the middle class. This is not represented in the graph because it only shows the origin of st…
I can speak towards migrating to Oregon. My cost of living has dropped by about 25% while my overall quality of life, sans anything money-related, has gone up.
"It rains here. All the time. We never see the sun. You'd hate it here."
--says the Oregon resident from Michigan by way of Arizona. :)
I would love to see something similar about Europe. I've always heard Americans move around more. I wonder if it's true.
I wonder how relocations along towns near state boundaries, such as moving from the Arkansas side to the Texas side of Texarkana, reflect overall interstate migrations.
But examples of moving within a metro area that has a larger population (NYC->NJ/CT, DC->MD/VA) might actually be statistically meaningful.
Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada were the most interesting to me. They all had considerable migration from every region of the US, plus international.
For CO and NV, I'd say it's the Rockies/skiing and Las Vegas respectively, which attract a specific personality type respectively. Arizona, I have no idea.
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I can speak towards migrating to Oregon. My cost of living has dropped by about 25% while my overall quality of life, sans anything money-related, has gone up.
SSHHH! You can't let the secret out. Remember what we tell the outsiders: "It rains here. All the time. We never see the sun. You'd hate it here." --says the Oregon resident from Michigan by way of Arizona. :)
--says Portland-born but long time Seattle resident who now lives in...Beijing (BTW, the pollution is real and not a story just made up to keep you away).
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Tight immigration restrictions were put into federal law in the 1920s, and as people born before that decade aged, they made up a smaller and smaller percentage of people in each state. The peak period of immigration to the United States, as a percentage of people who had already arrived, was about the turn of the century between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 loos…
The extreme low rate of settlement etc. in the deep south had a good deal to do with the weak economy.
Interesting to me was that there were plenty of foreigners in multiple states before 1960, it then dropped mostly to it's lowest in around 1970 and then grew again to today. So what happened in the run to the 70s that so few foreigners live in CA, NY, WA etc...
basically, asian people weren't allowed to immigrate to the US until the mid 60's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act...
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basically, asian people weren't allowed to immigrate to the US until the mid 60's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act...
Many affluent Asian countries (Japan, South Korea, etc) still do not allow any immigrants to settle. Those that do are often the "well-cultured" Southeast Asian brides from Vietnam and Thailand.
