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Top 10 States People Are Fleeing
Yahoo! Real Estate / Forbes ^ | December 8, 2010 | Jenna Goudreau

Posted on 12/11/2010 2:58:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

"We're seeing one of the lowest mobility rates in a century," says Nathaniel Karp, chief economist for banking firm BBVA Compass. Karp says the recession has forced many people to stay put because they are unable to sell their homes, cannot find jobs or are unwilling to relocate for work if it means sacrificing a partner's stable position.

The slowdown makes the question of who's moving and why even more significant than in years past. Using 2010 projections by Moody's Economy.com, Forbes ranked the states in which people are leaving faster than they are arriving. Economists report several overlapping trends that may be forcing people out of certain states as much as they are pulling them toward others.

At No.1 on our list, New York is expected to wave goodbye to 49,000 more people than it gains this year. The state has seen a steady loss of residents over the past five years, losing an average of 100,000 people per year. Karp explains that, because New York is a large state, it may report greater movement than others, but notes that population size is not the only reason residents are fleeing.

"In order to move, you need to be able to sell your home," says Karp. "The housing market [in New York] has not gone through the meltdown that other states have gone through."

While New York homeowners may have a slightly easier time selling their homes and moving to greener pastures, a competing trend is the number of unemployed renters who can no longer afford the high cost of living in and around New York City. Karp says the expensive lifestyle and high taxes may force the long-term unemployed to move on to more affordable regions.

The Prairie State came in at No. 2....

(Excerpt) Read more at realestate.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: economy; leave; loss; move; oilspill; realestate; recession; states
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1 posted on 12/11/2010 2:58:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And the bad part is not what anyone expects: these same idiot liberals who ruined their own states will be moving to red states and screwing that up in no time.


2 posted on 12/11/2010 3:00:45 PM PST by max americana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Top 5

No. 1: New York
No. 2: Illinois
No. 3: Ohio
No. 4: Nebraska
No. 5: Kansas

Hmmm . . . what could these states have in common?


3 posted on 12/11/2010 3:05:53 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: max americana

Reminds you of Muslims leaving their hellholes and coming to the West, huh?


4 posted on 12/11/2010 3:07:52 PM PST by 353FMG (The peoples of the West will have to choose between ISLAM and their country.)
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To: Islander7

Well, Nebraska doesnt have much in common with New York and Illinois, but the weather sucks and there is nothing to do here.


5 posted on 12/11/2010 3:10:09 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Islander7

brutal winters?


6 posted on 12/11/2010 3:10:28 PM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Islander7

Two blue states, one purple state and two Red states. Don’t have any idea what you are implying with regards to what they have in common. Boring states with no value could be one but I want to here what your answer is. :)


7 posted on 12/11/2010 3:11:05 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. NY, 2. IL, 3. OH, 4. NE, 5. KS, 6. IA, 7. LA, 8. ND, 9. SD, 10. MS


8 posted on 12/11/2010 3:13:54 PM PST by paudio (The differences between Clinton and 0bama? About a dozen of former Democratic Congressmen.)
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To: Islander7

Heavily unionized?


9 posted on 12/11/2010 3:17:57 PM PST by peteram
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thank heaven for the continuous influx of illegal aliens or California might be numero uno on the list!

/sarc

10 posted on 12/11/2010 3:19:27 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I know a lot of illegals are leaving Louisiana.


11 posted on 12/11/2010 3:20:24 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Husker24

Ya but I like it...great plae to raise kids..and after Benny is shown the door in 2012 we’ll have Adult leadership...Probably won’t retire here though...taxes are some of the highest....oh well can’t have everything...

Whats nice is even if we don’t have anything to do we can alway GO to those places then come back..kinda the best of both worlds..


12 posted on 12/11/2010 3:20:36 PM PST by conservativehusker (Ben Nelson makes me ashamed to be a Nebraskan. (Kinda like Bill Calahan once did))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m really surprised to see North Dakota on the list. They have an oil boom and the lowest unemployment rate in the country. Of course, people have been leaving North Dakota for the last 60 or 70 years. Most of them seem to come to the Twin Cities, so they’re not leaving to get to a better climate.


13 posted on 12/11/2010 3:21:05 PM PST by Parmenio
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http://thebusinessrelocationcoach.blogspot.com/2010/12/part-i-new-record-for-calif-companies.html

Companies Departing or Shifting Work Out [of California]: 193 - Nearly Four Times Last Year’s Level


14 posted on 12/11/2010 3:22:52 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I left NY in 1985 and have never regretted it .


15 posted on 12/11/2010 3:24:35 PM PST by sushiman
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To: 353FMG

Yup. An infestation-plague combo..


16 posted on 12/11/2010 3:24:38 PM PST by max americana
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One thing I’ll say about both Texas and Iowa when I lived in those two states: I never had a problem finding a decent job. Can’t say that about Mississippi.


17 posted on 12/11/2010 3:27:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Connecticut is soon to be on the list. We have a liberal dem taking over as governor with a filibuster proof dem Senate and House. CT is going down...


18 posted on 12/11/2010 3:44:54 PM PST by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder why AZ isn’t in the Top 10. I read last night that the illegal aliens are leaving AZ in droves.


19 posted on 12/11/2010 3:47:31 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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To: raybbr

http://www.ctnow.com/news/connecticut/hc-shea-politics-humor-1212-20101212,0,4071221.column


20 posted on 12/11/2010 3:51:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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