My daughter lives in Fort Worth. She sees lots of vehicles Cal plates.
Where Americans moved in 2024
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Boo. We full.
Not sure about the shading but North Dakota lost .04 percent of its population which comes close to that number.
It ranks 33rd because of that loss where SC is #1 for increase.
Most coming to TX are not. If you think about it, they generally get fed up and leave for a reason. Of course thats not 100%, but even if it's 60/40, its a net gain for TX. I thinks its more 70/30 or even 80/20. JMO.
Boeing isn't even that much of the impact it was 10-20-30 years back.
Number 1 employer in the state is the state. Schools and med centers. Decent high tech, food, and some aerospace. I mean the few contracts we had with Boeing had zero to do with commercial aircraft.
agree! a family member on the SC side of the NC border freaks out over the increase in traffic. Says the Little River population has doubled since he moved there 10 years ago.
He lost a number of golf courses to new development too. But if you think about it, he too added to the problem by escaping Long Island NY
AS well as my wife and I who have relocated from that place 20 years ago.
BUT some of the idiots still vote the same way as the way they ruined the state they left. People are largely ignorant of the connection.
Yes, those are the 40% or 30% or 20% I referred to.
A very real concern by people who live here as the South gets invaded. It is true that many are converts and many came down already like that but many are very ignorant of the cause and effect of why they had to escape. I kind of can tell who they are, just buy the community Facebook posts.
I sometimes feel that way when I am in North Myrtle Beach now. It's becoming the land of "no" converted from the land of the free.
All of a sudden, ALL on street parking, for blocks all along the beach communities is $5 an hour. To park your car on a public roadway and walk to the beach is $5 a hour. A couple years ago there was no such thing and it is spreading now to other areas.
Decide to go out to dinner? Almost 12% sales tax added onto you bill.
Want to go to the stores. Plastic bags are now banned except at Walmart because Walmart got smart and gives customers extra thick plastic bags with some wood fiber and is allowed to call them reusable. All other businesses have to use paper, that's a lot of trees.
... and the traffic? only getting worse to the point that we have started to avoid crossing over the border from NC and head th other way for dinner and shopping.
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I left IL and won't comment further, else the mods will surely ban me.
-36,000 for NJ is huge for a state that size and population. Very believable though.
Different than my experience in SC.
They leave for a reason, but aren't smart enough to realize the reason it got that way in the first place. Then they start implementing there "rules". Slippery slope.
Not all, but many.
Move back to SC. We need all the sane people we can get to balance things out.A very real concern by people who live here as the South gets invaded. It is true that many are converts and many came down already like that but many are very ignorant of the cause and effect of why they had to escape. I kind of can tell who they are, just buy the community Facebook posts.
I sometimes feel that way when I am in North Myrtle Beach now. It's becoming the land of "no" converted from the land of the free.
All of a sudden, ALL on street parking, for blocks all along the beach communities is $5 an hour. To park your car on a public roadway and walk to the beach is $5 a hour. A couple years ago there was no such thing and it is spreading now to other areas.
Decide to go out to dinner? Almost 12% sales tax added onto you bill.
Want to go to the stores. Plastic bags are now banned except at Walmart because Walmart got smart and gives customers extra thick plastic bags with some wood fiber and is allowed to call them reusable. All other businesses have to use paper, that's a lot of trees.
... and the traffic? only getting worse to the point that we have started to avoid crossing over the border from NC and head th other way for dinner and shopping.
More interesting especially in a place like Florida is understanding how many people left and how many moved in (not net)
Florida has a HUGE flux,
in certain demographics mass exodus from the state while a mass influx of a totally unrelated group is moving in.
Generally Florida, especially in the last few years can’t keep its young people from leaving en masse, this includes young couples.
(Now see if I can find that population distribution graph that shows age and gender groups, extremely scary graph for the “estimated 2025” distribution. Lol but I can’t remember the scale anymore, lol.
Worth noting the distribution is FL is extraordinarily jacked up due to highly selective migration, you can see 19-38 is basically non-existent and an immense demographic surge of 50-59 year old women is continuously occurring. Strange and scary stuff as it’s not sustainable as there will be no workforce, Virtually all contractors in FL are 40-49yr old single men which are semi transient and there in massive numbers to make up for the lack of a locally born workforce)
Florida has a HUGE flux,
in certain demographics mass exodus from the state while a mass influx of a totally unrelated group is moving in.
Generally Florida, especially in the last few years can’t keep its young people from leaving en masse, this includes young couples.
(Now see if I can find that population distribution graph that shows age and gender groups, extremely scary graph for the “estimated 2025” distribution. Lol but I can’t remember the scale anymore, lol.
Worth noting the distribution is FL is extraordinarily jacked up due to highly selective migration, you can see 19-38 is basically non-existent and an immense demographic surge of 50-59 year old women is continuously occurring. Strange and scary stuff as it’s not sustainable as there will be no workforce, Virtually all contractors in FL are 40-49yr old single men which are semi transient and there in massive numbers to make up for the lack of a locally born workforce)
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I just carry bags anymore - really like the foil lined for cold stuff ...A very real concern by people who live here as the South gets invaded. It is true that many are converts and many came down already like that but many are very ignorant of the cause and effect of why they had to escape. I kind of can tell who they are, just buy the community Facebook posts.
I sometimes feel that way when I am in North Myrtle Beach now. It's becoming the land of "no" converted from the land of the free.
All of a sudden, ALL on street parking, for blocks all along the beach communities is $5 an hour. To park your car on a public roadway and walk to the beach is $5 a hour. A couple years ago there was no such thing and it is spreading now to other areas.
Decide to go out to dinner? Almost 12% sales tax added onto you bill.
Want to go to the stores. Plastic bags are now banned except at Walmart because Walmart got smart and gives customers extra thick plastic bags with some wood fiber and is allowed to call them reusable. All other businesses have to use paper, that's a lot of trees.
... and the traffic? only getting worse to the point that we have started to avoid crossing over the border from NC and head th other way for dinner and shopping.
Now pass me a plastic cup and lid with a paper straw (this is real)
I have to tell you, my heart is with SC
Just love what the state stands for compared to much of the country, personal responsibility. Also the small town type of politics. I know it's changing but it's far better than a lot of others. (no politics or I could say more, Im sure you too) But just look at the success as a state that SC has become, major manufacturers from all over the world coming to the state. I was really proud living there, used to always talk about this to family members up north (yeah I know)
But I think it's being proven by the decline of other areas that manufacturing is key and after that it starts to draw in more and more technology as it is important to be here. I mean, SC and some others really has it going on now. No longer can it be made fun of like some used too.
Not welcome here. Rains too much.
I could see myself renting a place in the PNW only during the sunny months.
I couldn’t handle the gloomy, grey cloudy drizzly weather for extended periods of time for months.
That would put me in a bad mood.
Mood light. Vitamin D. Money.
The gloom doesn't get me, the green cheers me up. I don't however handle the COLD well anymore. I cannot much work outside under 40°F. I have Reynauds.
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