Wondering Which States Americans Hate to Live In? Ask U-Haul

American Thinker ^ | February 15, 2018 | Gary Gindler

[WWII_Historian]

Does the changing political climate affect population migration between states? Of course, it does, but how? What if we were to express the movement of intra-American migration, not in words, but in the language of numbers? A convenient measure of internal migration could be the U-Haul Index.

If the number of orders for trucks at both destinations is the same, then U-Haul has no problems.

If the number of orders is not the same, then U-Haul must hire drivers to relocate the empty trucks, and then pay to transport these drivers back. In this case, the prices for traffic will not be symmetrical – renting trucks to a popular point A from an unpopular point B will entail higher costs.

Here are some examples (all data is taken from the U-Haul website; prices are for March 1, 2018, for a favorite 20-foot van.)

Renting a truck from New York to Orlando costs $2,214 and back $1,557 (the difference is $657, a 42% surcharge.)

Renting a truck from New York to Dallas costs $2,442 and back $1,962 (the difference is $480, a 24% surcharge.)

Renting a truck from San Francisco to Orlando costs $3,308 and back $1,988 (the difference is $1,510, an 84% surcharge.)

Renting a truck from San Francisco to Dallas costs $3,206 and back $1,128 (the difference is $2,078, a 184% surcharge.)

For comparison, renting the same truck from New York to San Francisco costs $3,409, and back $3,058 (the difference is $351, a surcharge of 11%).

What causes people to leave San Francisco and New York and to make a move to Dallas and Orlando?

[hinckley buzzard]

Good question—sh*thole to sh*thole— coast to coast.

[RipSawyer]

NO one should move to South Carolina, to begin with we have Lindsey Graham disease. We also have swamps, alligators, cottonmouths, Eastern diamondbacks, copperheads, baptists, methodists, episcopalians, AMEs, obese people, a diabetes epidemic, an extremely high percentage of rednecks who drive pickup trucks and hunt deer. Worst of all there are Walmarts everywhere you go. This is truly HELL on Earth, don’t come here. People are dying here every single day without exception.