The survey also found several popular reasons U.S. homeowners decided to relocate.
Moved for lower overall cost of living: 20%
Wanted a better deal on a home: 15%
Couldn’t afford a home/the cost of living in their previous area: 13%
Concerned about the impact of climate change on their previous area: 4% of U.S. residents
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Are they saying that no one is concerned about increasing crime, onerous taxes, or a hostile political climate????? This validity of the four reasons listed above is highly dubious.
“no one is concerned about increasing crime”
There was a recent book written about why folks left the cities in the 1960s—talked to actual people who moved and just followed the data:
https://www.amazon.com/Untenable-Ethnic-Flight-Americas-Cities-ebook/dp/B0BZQC882W
The top two causes of “white flight” (which including people of all kinds, including blacks in the neighborhoods btw):
—Crime
—Public Schools