Census: Americans Are Fleeing Big Cities (escaping high costs - and liberalism?)

Associated Press ^ | 04/20/06 | Stephen Ohlemacher

[jpl]

This is news? It's only been going on for about 50 years or so.

[Heartofsong83]

I am seen the same up here in Canada. In the Toronto area, for instance, you have to travel up to around Barrie - 60 miles away from downtown - to really get into conservatism...

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
"Could they be escaping from liberalism?"

No, they bring liberalism with them. They just want to live in nicer places.

Michael Frazier

[Heartofsong83]

It's accelerating now.

[mikethevike]

The schools are night and day. So much more parent involvement out here. Wright county, I think, is the most Republican county in MN. God's country!

[MarDav]

Beautiful yard--mind my asking where it is?

[L98Fiero]

Nice spread you have there. Count me as envious. ;)

[Flavius Josephus]

They move somewhere else and bring their terrible ideas with them.

You mean like when they move to a farming community and then demand that the farmers not use manure on their fields because they don't like the smell?

[MplsSteve]

BINGO!

[Naptowne]

This trend has only been going on for about 60 years.

[caisson71]

The problem with many fleeing big cities to the rural areas is that they recognize, via their pocketbook, that they cannot live comfortably amongst liberalism (unsustainable)but still adhere to liberalism philosophically. They move to more conservative locals and immediately want to make it like the places they left. In fact, they quickly communicate with their liberal support systems and initiate liberal political processes, much to the dismay of locals who have openly invited them to share their lifestyles as good neighbors should. Before you know it, taxes are increased, private property is in danger, liberal organisations dominate the news, organized neighborhood organisations (dominated by politically savy liberals) have rights local individual citizens are denied and life becomes like the hell the liberals left.

[MplsSteve]

See Post 6!

You phrased it much than I did though!

[debg]

I just moved from Miami to Ocala, FL and feel like I moved back to America! Problem is, a lot of Northeasterners are moving down here as well. Ocala is growing quickly and jobs are plentiful.

[Roverman2K]

Exactly, look what has happened to california and washinton.
Its already started here in AZ and nevada will be blue in 2 years.
they vote these idiots into power and then move somewhere else when the state they are in is ruined because of them.
they are like locusts

[RightWhale]

It's a short drive to several mountain ranges, and it's within driving distance of the beach.

How will the drive be when gasoline is $5 a gallon? Somewhere there is a tradeoff between housing and transportation.

[Faraday]

The largest decreases from the most populous metropolitan statistical areas (from Table 3. of the report) are:

Area / 2000-04 annual rate per 1000 / average annual number

San Francisco-Oakland-Freemont / -14.7 / -60,984

New York-Norther New Jersey-Long Island / -11.4 / -211,014

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy / -9.5 / -41,851

Los Angles-Long Beach-Santa Ana / -9.3 / -177,780

Not exactly the conservative hot beds. These are significant because the represent regional declines, not just people moving to the suburbs which is common in most major cities.

[HostileTerritory]

What kind of jobs are plentiful in Ocala? Check-out at the Publix?

[showme_the_Glory]

I traded my view of Puget Sound for a view of Lake Ray Hubbard. The people, politics, and climate are all a 100% improvement.

[caisson71]

Thanks. We must have crossed message at the same time. Mine needs to go another 3,000 miles...
We make the same points. I see it and live it every day. The libs from California and the Northwest are like a flush of bad weeds flourishing in fertile soil with no natural defenses.