Map: Where Americans Are Moving (Click on any US county to see people flood in or flee- AMAZING)

Forbes ^ | 06-10-10 | Jon Bruner

[kirbyu]

More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement. Source: Internal Revenue Service data.

[Nervous Tick]

>> When the SHTF a few heads placed on stakes should send a message. And some claymores on triplines.

LOL! Believe me, I have had those heads-on-pikes around my place fantasies too. Heck, I have ‘em now regarding census workers. :-)

Unfortunately they don’t sell claymore mines at the local Cabela’s. Guess I’ll have to learn to make my own.

[I Buried My Guns]

people here are judged by their actions, not just the words.

My trip to Alaska exposed how jaded and ruined I am from living in a big city: We were loitering around North Pole, looking for moose, and saw kids out playing, without an adult nearby. I was fearful for them. I wanted to tell them "Go home, it's not safe!", but it was safe, and I am retarded sometimes.

I wanted to ask the kids if there were any moose nearby, but did not, because I am a man and it is not appropriate for a strange man to approach children. I sent the wife instead.

I hate the society and culture that caused me to think that. I want a reset button for America, to make our values more "country", and less "city". More Alaska, less Detroit.

[Eye of Unk]

Yes but you can get motion activated lights and sprays of an offensive nature...get my drift?

[Eye of Unk]

Maybe in another 30 years Alaska will have huge heated domes, or giant mirrors in space, or everyone will have their private nuclear reactor and a vehicle that works reliably and cheaply when its -40F.

But its the hardships that temper people, an easy soft padded nanny state society creates a weak society is what I think.Give everyone a free meal and a token job or just a check and you strip away the soul.

I wish more people truly were able to experience hardships. Just so they know what to fear.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Yes but you can get motion activated lights and sprays of an offensive nature...get my drift?

Got it.

Another facet of the problem is this: self sufficient living is hard work, and not for the lazy or preoccupied. It’s tough to spend the same scarce hour farming, and maintaining your elaborate security system. If you get my drift.

Again, the Fort Freeper concept sounds really cool and romantic — I just have my doubts as to how practical it really is.

[phockthis]

lots of black for my county

[FreeStateYank]

Been looking at Alabama. Read their state constitution. Probably one of the strongest property rights. Like that.

[listenhillary]

I just told someone the other day “When the dependent class runs out of food and clean water, it is going to get really ugly”.

[Mr. Lucky]

Click on Wayne County, Michigan.

[netmilsmom]

You should see it here.
I’m 40 minutes north of downtown in a suburb that is 2.2 miles.

We have 67 houses abandoned or for rent. Lots of HUD homes here. Not a single strip mall in the area is full. It’s amazing.

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

Very interesting stuff

[wbill]

The problem is that the people believing Alaska is the holy land have to be very self supporting

I grew up in Northern Maine. Ditto what you said. Fools from Boston move there all the time to "get back to nature", or somesuch. Those that can stay, do. Those that can't, leave quickly. :-)

I also have a cousin who relocate to Maine from Alaska. She loves Maine, because the climate is "So Much Better". 'Tis all in your point of view, I guess.

I relocated to the Southeast. Life is much easier, if for no other reason than I don't need to shovel my driveway and drive on icy roads just to get to my ridiculously underpaying job for 6 months or so every year.

There are other problems to deal with - with the larger population comes all of its attendant issues like crime, liberals, and the like - but, man, it's just easier to make a living down here.

[I Buried My Guns]

I wish more people truly were able to experience hardships. Just so they know what to fear.

My Dad uses the phrase "Suffering builds character".

We live in a society and culture that promotes warm fuzzies, leisure, and hedonism. In fact, our liberal media portrays those things as the norm, when in fact that is not true. As a result, many human sheep go through life with a skewed sense of what this world is all about. They are unthinking, uncritical, and do not have an awareness of the world around them or how that world works.

I can see how living in Alaska would slap folks with reality and strip off that ignorance.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Holy smokes, my county, New Haven, CT, looks like a crime scene with a huge red splatter going all over the country.

[Ticonderoga34]

Those that come up here and find its not so easy usually wind up leaving with nothing but the clothes on their back, beaten into submission, broke, busted and possibly forever scarred.

I had a co-worker who moved to Anchorage because it was her life long dream. She was homeless in six months.

Just from observing my co-worker, I get the impression that a lot of folks don't understand what Alaska is about. Alaska is a frontier and people from the lower 48 don't understand what that means. I don't know what a frontier land is like but I do know that I'm ignorant about the Great White North unlike some of the folks who move to Alaska.

[madison10]

Cook County, IL looks like fireworks.

[Eye of Unk]

Society in the cities have you trapped in a box in many ways, you live in a high priced rental box, you work in a box store and you drive an overpriced box of a car.

And these millions of “boxed” people are organized into warehoused neighborhoods, or stacked atop each other like a warehouse food market, neatly categorized, inventoried, fed a ration of supplements similar to cattle or poultry prior to processing.

I just love a final morbid thought for my posting before I leave for a day driving a concrete mixer, a challenging day where every job is different, every day is different from rain to sunny days or the gloomy arctic winter frigid days.

Oh the apalling horror or satisfaction of working hard to the liberal mindsets!

yeah I do need to get my butt in gear, its almost 5:30am here. cya

[Eye of Unk]

I made my pilgrimage prior to the internet in 1992, I just followed my heart and trusted my instincts, it was tough but it toughened me I think.

Internet helps, you can see firsthand the mistakes others have made, and you can often find a better path in your destiny if you search wisely.

[truthkeeper]

Aaargh...no matter what I click, I can’t make the lines go away!

[Mad Dawgg]

"I’d say people are leaving OH in droves, and those who come are far poorer than those who leave."

Well I live in Southern Ohio and was astonished to find all the movement in my county and near me just moved at most a few counties away.