Record number of people from New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles are looking for new homes in cheaper, smaller metro areas like Phoenix, Sacramento and Las Vegas as mortgage rates dip and working remotely becomes the new norm

UK Daily Mail ^ | August 5, 2020 | Karen Ruiz

[C19fan]

A record number of people from the country's largest metropolitan areas, including New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, are flocking to smaller, more affordable cities amid the coronavirus pandemic, new data reveals.

A recent report by real estate company Redfin shows 27.4 per cent of website users were looking to move to smaller metro areas in the second quarter of 2020, with the top five destinations being Phoenix, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Austin and Atlanta.

The migration analysis was based on a sample of more than 1million Redfin users who searched for homes across 87 metro regions in the country between April and June.

[cuban leaf]

When I moved to rural KY it felt like going back in time 50 years, in a lot of very good ways. :)

And thanks to the internet and Amazon, etc., I’m giving up nothing. Also, it was the easiest way to ex-patriate without actually ex-patriating. The people are so nice that I thought they were faking at first. It’s a much better lifestyle, at lest for me. My 38 year old daughter and her husband found the same. That’s why they moved to the state. And no the youngest is looking to move to somewhere like this, except they may choose Tennessee because their income is pretty high and there is no income tax in Tennessee. She even came during some of our most hot, muggy weather and was not the least bit concerned. Weird. They are so tired of Seattle.

[bert]

Yes but....... you live in the land of plentiful bourbon

[Vision]

We don’t want them.

[EEGator]

See New Hampshire via Massholes.

[cuban leaf]

NY and CA support you pathetic moocher red states...

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I know you are being sarcastic, but I’ve actually had to address that from some leftists. I explain to them that places like California have massive taxes that are deductible from your federal taxes. So it’s actually a backdoor way of getting more federal money into the state. That is, high state taxes, offsetting lower federal taxes.

[cuban leaf]

So true. When I wasn’t WFH, I drove by five of them every day.

[gcparent]

People are leaving Manhattan. Many are staying in N.Y.. They are buying Houses on LI, westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster. N.Y. is a big, beautiful State. If you move 2 hours away upstate, taxes will be much lower. Little crime and your kids can ride their bikes, go to school. No Deblasio!

[Theoria]

[dowcaet]

As with so many blue states it’s the one or two large cities that ruin everything. Upstate NY is one of the most beautiful spots in the country especially in the fall!

[Slingwing]

Keep the morons where they are as they will destroy the place where they move because they are stupid enough to bring the very ideology that caused their old homes to become unaffordable.

[ScottinVA]

Oh, great.... the infestation kicks up a notch.

[HighSierra5]

Same here in Mexifornia. You get out of the urban areas you wouldn’t know your in a communist state. No crime,traffic. But no state is immune to the communist insurrection. That’s why you Stand and fight where you are.

[greenishness]

I predicted this once the anti police stuff started getting worse. The cops will leave too. Property values in these big cities will plummet.

[ScottinVA]

My wife and I will be heading there (Currituck County) when she retires in 2021. We’ve had enough of Virginia.

[woodbutcher1963]

This has been happening for at least 35-40 years.
It started with cities like Buffalo(where I grew up), Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit when all the union jobs went bye bye. They moved to places like Charlotte, Dallas, San Antonio, LV , Phoenix, New Hampshire, northern VA.

NH has turned purple, trending blue. I know I moved here in 85.
NC is purple, turning blue. My older brother moved there.
Another brother moved first to DC, northern VA. Now lives north side of Dallas.

Leaving NYC, SF and Seattle is just the latest demographic trend. Idaho, Montana, NV, UT, AZ have all been seeing a huge inflow of people from California and Seattle for the last several years.

Idaho was the fastest growing state in the country last year based on the increase in the percentage of population.
Low population states like ID, MT, WY are the biggest danger of turning from RED to purple(MT) to eventually Blue. This is because there were only a million people there. So, if 100K liberals move there, they out vote the conservatives.

I have already seen the evidence of this here in NH. Believe it or not VT used to be a RED state until all the hippes(Ben & Jerry types) moved there in the late 60’s early 70’s. Now it is lost.

Look what has happened to VA in the last ten years. Same with NC. Same thing in CO.

[Jolla]

Originally from Texas moved to Calif in the 1980s lived in San Diego and San Francisco, there was/is no way to fix SF. My first name here was SFRepublican. Retired and moved back to Ft Worth, very nice to have not as much kool aid here.

[o-n-money]

“NY and CA support you pathetic moocher red states that take more from the fed than they give”

Don’t blame the Red states for the job Schumer, Feinstein and
their subordinate lackeys fail to do. They are too busy undermining DJT than to do their real job.

[cherry]

nothing to do with the anarchy in the cities, where rioters are allowed to burn and destroy, and nothing about the bums defecating along major thorough fares and setting up tent cities?...

[The_Media_never_lie]

Please don’t come to SC. It is too hot and humid for you.

[gibsonguy]

Stay out of Phoenix you bastards.