Where Are People Moving to in 2024? Hint: There’s Been a Shift! (Los Angeles and Bay area lead list of cities where people are fleeing the most)

PODS ^ | 5/20/2024 | Alex Keight

[vespa300]

Rising rent prices, a housing struggle, high tax rates, and overcrowding are common issues in many of the cities that top this year’s move-out list. Los Angeles returns in the number one spot, followed by major metropolitan cities (and repeat offenders) like San Francisco, Miami, and Long Island, NY (part of the greater NYC area that PODS services). Unsurprisingly, these cities are also some of the most expensive metro areas in the country.

[tet68]

As long as they don’t move here!!!

[fr_freak]

Rising rent prices, a housing struggle, high tax rates, and overcrowding are common issues in many of the cities that top this year’s move-out list.

Of course they don't mention the crime rates or tent cities full of drug-addled street defecators. They prefer the palatable lies.

[RckyRaCoCo]

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[SCKnight]

I’m in Greenville, SC and I can tell you that traffic has gotten a lot worse with so many people moving in. New neighborhoods are going up everywehere and home prices have really jumped over the past three years. This is still a great place to live but we are definitely experiencing growing pains. Most of the people I’ve met who have moved here are pretty conservative. Greenville/Spartanburg is one of the most conservative areas of the country so liberals likely wouldn’t like it here.

[SaxxonWoods]

Whoops, thanks! (I knew that).

[x]

Maine is a swing state

Is it though? Trump narrowly won the northern congressional district twice, but the southern district is heavily Democrat, so Democrats usually win and control the state.

[SaxxonWoods]

“Hang in there, maybe you can influence some in Colorado,”

The Front Range is a goner, but once you get away from that weeping pustule of human dreck things get a lot better. Lots of good small-town places left here. Just hired an excavator to do some road work on my bugout place, his American flag sits on acreage in front of his house, must be 20X15 feet or so, really nice, visible from a long way off.

[Rockingham]

Home prices have risen dramatically in the most developed and desirable areas in Florida like southeast Florida, but there are still smaller communities in more rural areas where homes prices have risen less and homes remain affordable for many.

In addition, it matters whether one is buying with cash or with a mortgage. Higher interest rates are causing monthly mortgage payments to rise dramatically. Retirees who can buy with all cash are more mobile and in a much better position than those of working age who need a job and to earn enough to cover monthly mortgage payments.

[SaxxonWoods]

My old stomping grounds in central-west Texas are hanging in there, though Meth has become a big problem and the old-timers say if you want anything done you have to call a 70 year-old, heh. There are some “all gate no cattle” places popping up though.

[x]

The only way liberals can move everywhere and “turn places blue” is if the majority of the USA population is liberal. If that’s the case, most everywhere WILL be blue eventually and should be blue.

That does seem to be the case. There will still be enough voters outside of cities to keep some states Republican, but cities everywhere are becoming Democrat strongholds as are many of their suburbs. This shouldn't be happening, but it is.

[SaxxonWoods]

Nice, congrats! I have desert mountains but I love it here and pine forest/aspen mountains are 30 minutes away. My bugout spot in between has Pinyon pines, scrub oak, 6,500 ft elevation, elk, deer, turkeys, bears, etc. And a locked gate with a sign nearby that reads “If You Can Read This, You Are in Range”.

[Gaffer]

Out here in real America we’ve been there done that with these so-called refugees from the North, West and NW. They’re just cashing out, getting ready to retire and live a life of tax ease.

Yet when they get here, they clamor for all the ‘amenities’ they had and start the same old expansion of government stuff. So stay where you are. You’ve earned it. Why not enjoy all that public largess, civic financial responsibility and scads of cultural benefits?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“...a sign nearby that reads ‘If You Can Read This, You Are in Range’.”

LOL!

[SaxxonWoods]

As long as they don’t have the votes, they can clamor all they like. And you can remind them why they came.

[vivenne]

Greenville is a very nice city. One of my faves.

[drwoof]

North Bay Native (Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake Counties our family territory). Days like the one you just described are why I stay. I left the Bay Area in 2007, and headed to Butte County. I do miss the ocean, but the political/social aspects of life here are far, far more to my liking, and I do get back to the coast a few times a year. I understand the culture here, and fit in. Can’t say that about Bay Area any longer, and it breaks my heart. For example, wore my “Reagan as Che” T-shirt to the grocery store (Winco) yesterday. Two knowing smiles, and three (!!!) people actually said something positive. The gal who rang me up told me of visiting the Reagan Ranch with her dad, a ranch hand, when she was a little girl. “God, I wish there were men like that around today.” My friend, wearing the same shirt in Santa Rosa, has had people berate/heckle him. No thanks.

[vivenne]

Isn’t Myrtle Beach known as Murder Beach because of the crime?

[napscoordinator]

I wish they’d stop coming to Florida. We’re full. We have over a million republican registration advantage over democrats. That’s enough to keep us red for decades. No more roads blocked for hours, no more building homes so close together they can shake hands out their windows. It’s too much. Plus, the new arrivals are about to find out about living in Floridas biggest negative. Hurricanes! They are no joke and it’s supposed to be a very active season.

[vivenne]

Wow. Santa Rosa used to be moderate to Conservative. The Bay Area is sadly, a lost cause. A beautiful place, but a lost cause

[adorno]

Home prices have risen dramatically in the most developed and desirable areas in Florida like southeast Florida, but there are still smaller communities in more rural areas where homes prices have risen less and homes remain affordable for many.

Yes, it is still possible to buy a bit more affordable homes in rural areas and smaller communities, but then, people would be buying in areas that are more distant from the desirable infrastructure that people of older ages need, such as hospitals and police and firefighters.

But still, a few years ago, when the prices of homes in the Tampa/St. Pete area started going up, people opted to go a bit further out, like to Sarasota and Bradenton and Ft Myers and Lakeland, the prices there went up too, and now, the prices in places like Sarasota are even higher than in the Tampa area. My niece and husband (from upstate NY) decided to find a place in Sarasota and are having second thoughts about that area too. You have to move out to very distant open country to find the more affordable prices.

Florida may have stopped growing as fast as it was a decade or two ago, with prices going up to unaffordable levels.