Posted on 05/14/2006 3:53:31 AM PDT by Jim Noble
A majority of people who moved out of Massachusetts last year report they are very satisfied with life in their new state and would not move back, a Boston Globe poll has found.
Seventy-three percent of those surveyed said they live in a home that is bigger than their home in Massachusetts was. Fifty-four percent said their standard of living is higher now.
The top reason people gave for leaving Massachusetts was a better job, followed by the cost of housing, family ties, and the weather. In a separate set of questions, 50 percent of those surveyed said the cost of housing was a ''major factor," and a better job was cited as a ''major factor" by 39 percent...
The survey comes as candidates for governor and policy makers are discussing the state's stagnant population, and identifies some of the aspects where Massachusetts faces a competitive disadvantage with other states.
''It points out that people are not being dragged away from Massachusetts kicking and screaming...I see so many people who move from Massachusetts and say they will never move back."
...The exodus from Massachusetts has been particularly acute in recent years. Between 2000 and 2004, Massachusetts lost residents at a greater rate than any other state except New York, according to Census Bureau estimates that were released last month. The exodus from Massachusetts averaged 42,402 people per year, according to the Census data.
...A majority -- 69 percent -- said they found Bay State residents either ''much less courteous" or ''somewhat less courteous" than people in their new state.
Some allegiances persisted, the results showed. Only 5 percent of those polled said they were now cheering for a different sports team.
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12% blamed the state's "liberal politics.".........
Geez, that is surprising! 12% could be a factor down the road.
5,000 people a year.
It's funny, because people sometimes blame N.H.'s shift to purple statehood on Massachusetts people moving in, but the belt of towns along the southern border where most people have settled tend to be among the most Republican areas in the state. They're people in their 30s and 40s who couldn't find communities in Massachusetts they could afford where they'd want to raise their kids. Generally more Republican than any other group of people still in the state.
All of them moved to Florida. That's why I moved back home to the best state in the U.S., TEXAS.
Who flees socialism? The people being ripped off to support it. Who stays? The people soaking up all the freebies. That's why communists have to wall in their population. Massechussetts needs a wall.
5000 people a year......................
I've heard the same thing, and oddly enough, the area where I live ( W central N.H.) has become very much a liberal bastion over the thirty years since I moved here. I suspect it parallels the change in political tone at Dartmouth.
Mass. is just a bad memory for me now, though.
arghhhh..stop it! Yer making me miss the place agin'...
Fort Campbell? We were there for 3 years..loved it. But we were in Pierce Village and NOT Lee. We spent 3 years in Heidelberg too. Liked that a bit less...
By all means, go on. I am getting educated here. Gun laws?
I went to Boston in the summer. Temperature hovered around 100 degrees, hotter than any summer day I'd ever experienced in the South. Far more humid too.
I went to the Boston in the fall. Trudged through miserable freezing rain.
I went to Boston in the winter. Got trapped by a Nor'easter.
Awful traffic too, even by city standards. Almost as bad as when I drove through NYC on July 3rd, and this was on a -daily- basis, not holiday traffic.
End of story
Wait a minute you haven't seen it all. If you get up here before Thursday you can see the flood. If you can't make it you can watch it on TV. tomorrow.
Also we are statisticly likely to get a hurricane this fall. Give us a chance to show you our good side. - tom
Too true. I was shocked to see Unadilla, and some of the other towns up there. Beautiful old houses, nice old people, just fading away.
Thanks for serving.
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