[xusafflyer]

The housing market is being inflated by speculation buyers. USA Today Article - Real estate continues to cool.

Unfortunately, it does not have the chart like the paper article does. California (and the other teal colored states in your map) are going down and the light shaded states (espeically IN, OH, and MI) are going up since 2005.

My wife and I moved to Indiana from So California 2.5 years ago. Best decision we ever made. The standard of living is much higher, less traffic, crime, crazy liberals running the state in the ground, and its a shall-issue CCW state (that just passed a lifetime CCW bill).

My brother in law left California last year for Texas (Dallas suburb called Flower Mound).

We skipped the SW/Mountain states for that very reason. Too many other Californians moving there.

[ex-Texan]

Indiana is one of the wealthiest states in the U.S. Many people living there own large homes with acreage. They flock southward when the winter get tough. I used to own rental property in Indiana. Have good friends living there. Oregon is the worst state, the most corrupt state I have lived in. Everything is controlled by the mob out here.