1. Folks from NJ who move to Florida are typically retirees.
2. Folks from NJ who move to Pennsylvania are typically middle-income types who are looking for less expensive homes and lower property taxes.
3. Folks from NJ who move to North Carolina are typically upper-income types who work in the banking, pharmaceutical/biotech and high-tech industries and are following the jobs there.
4. Folks from New York who move to New Jersey are those who see a corrupt, expensive, high-tax climate as an improvement over the place they're coming from.
That would be my parents, who stopped in New York along the way after leaving NJ. You must also make the distinction that those retirees to Florida these days are usually upper middle to upper class, due to the high price of real estate on the coast.
2. Folks from NJ who move to Pennsylvania are typically middle-income types who are looking for less expensive homes and lower property taxes.
That would be my coworkers with children. Housing in the Princeton area has gotten so pricey, that your only alternatives are Bucks County, PA (five minutes from my office in Hopewell, NJ) or Burlington County to the south, the latter of which is made up of small tract homes in ugly towns. Bucks is a much better bet for a young professional couple with children. 3. Folks from NJ who move to North Carolina are typically upper-income types who work in the banking, pharmaceutical/biotech and high-tech industries and are following the jobs there.
Not 100% true. As I said earlier, you do have a sizeable migration of folks (especially anyone employed by Wachovia) to Charlotte and the RTP area, but you also have alot of retirees moving to the outer banks or to Ashville now. Hendersonville, NC has effectively become another Boca Raton in this regard.
4. Folks from New York who move to New Jersey are those who see a corrupt, expensive, high-tax climate as an improvement over the place they're coming from.
That would be ME.
I generally agree with the other three points, but the types who move to NC are retired upper-income types who move into gated, golf course communities. I can say that with some personal knowledge attending realty shows that showcase these properties and having friends who have moved there. Retirees are flocking to NC. I may be one of them, especially since NC won't be taxing my federal pension like VA does.
That is not to say that the Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill triangle is not attracting the kinds of people you mentioned. The growth has been tremendous.