Posted on 05/04/2014 5:36:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
While every state has at least some residents who are looking for greener pastures; as Gallup reports, nowhere is the desire to move more prevalent than in Illinois and Connecticut. In both of these states, about half of residents say that if given the chance to move to a different state, they would like to do so (against an average 33% of all Americans who would prefer to live in another state than their own). The 'greenest pasture' or least disliked, according to Gallup, is Hawaii and Montana (where only 23% would prefer to leave). The biggest factor driving the desire to leave the current state - unsurprisingly - jobs (or business opportunities)... and Nevada residents (thank you Harry Reid) the most anxious to leave in the next 12 months.
These findings are from a 50-state Gallup poll, conducted June-December 2013, which includes at least 600 representative interviews with residents aged 18 and older in each state. Gallup measured residents' interest in moving out of state by asking, "Regardless of whether you will move, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move to another state, or would you rather remain in your current state?"
Thirty-three percent of residents want to move to another state, according to the average of the 50 state responses. Seventeen states come close to that 50-state average. Another 16 are above the average range, including three showing an especially high desire to move. In fact, in these three -- Illinois, Connecticut, and Maryland -- roughly as many residents want to leave as want to stay.
At the other end of the spectrum, 17 states are home to a below-average percentage of residents wanting to leave. This includes the previously mentioned six states -- Montana, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, New Hampshire, and Texas -- where fewer than one in four want to move, the lowest level recorded.
In the same poll, Gallup asked state residents how likely it is they will move in the next 12 months. On average across all 50 states, 6% of state residents say it is extremely or very likely they will move in the next year, 8% say it is somewhat likely, 14% not too likely, and 73% not likely at all.
The combined percentages reporting they are extremely, very, or somewhat likely to move out of state ranges from 8% in Maine, Iowa, and Vermont to 20% in Nevada.
With the biggest motivating factor to leave being work/jobs...
State leaders have important reasons for wanting to see their state populations grow rather than shrink. A growing population usually means more commerce, more economic vitality, and a bigger tax base to pay for state services. A shrinking population not only hurts government coffers, but can weaken a state politically by virtue of the potential loss of U.S. House members through redistricting every 10 years.
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Nevada, Illinois, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Connecticut all appear particularly vulnerable to losing population in the coming few years: high percentages of their residents say they would leave if they could, and larger-than-average percentages say they are at least somewhat likely to do so in the coming year. At the other end of the spectrum, Texas, Minnesota, and Maine have little to fear. Residents of these states are among the least likely to want to leave and few are planning to leave in the next 12 months.
If these states sound familiar to readers of Gallup's previous 50-state poll articles, it's because several of them also appear at the top or bottom of the states for resident satisfaction with state taxes, state government, and overall perceptions of how their state compares to others as a place to live.
I live in the Sacramento area right now. We have been thinking of retiring in the Reno area. We go there a lot checking out the different neighborhoods. Somersett and Arrowcreek are our favorites. Both are well planned communities with beautiful views. Open space. Golf courses. Trails. The only thing holding us back is that we love our home and neighborhood.
Article says AT LEAST 600 FROM EACH STATE.
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I also missed that it was from EACH State, when I commented to sasquatch.
Doesn’t discount my assertion that the sample size is too small for the polls to publish figures as though the results represent the majority of people in each State.
Hey man, if you lived in Pahrump Nevada, you’d want to get the hell out too.
“Stay put. Y’all made your bed.”
Don’t blame nevadans, california virtually tripled our population since the 80s, and brought their krap with em. Once the locusts finsh devouring all that is good, they will ravage the next conservative state, and frankly, texas, tag you’re it
The problem in left leaning states is that both parties are corrupt. While many individuals are innocent, the majority of the voters give their consent at the polls.
That’s the truth! ILL-ANNOY SUCKS
Bad weather: Eastern Idaho which is cold and windy. Most of the population lives in the "banana belt of Idaho" around Boise.
Bad schools: Nampa School District is awful. Other public schools are influenced by the LDS Church. The LDS Church and social network is a factor that almost everyone knows exists but rarely mentions directly.
I'd move back to Alaska if I could.
I live in the Vegas area, but not “IN” Vegas. I’ve been here since 1983, but I was also born in Reno. I’m not leaving. I love the heat. I’m *knock on wood* isolated from the crime. And the LVMS is 20 miles north, across the street from the air base.
As for the Californians who moved here, another wave hit when the Northridge Shake took place, little realizing that we, too, are on a fault line.
Nevada (especially Las Vegas) never really bounced back from the economic downturn late last decade. But also remember, Nevada (because of Vegas) is a state where lots of new people come every year and lots of people leave every year. It’s been that way for a while - broken dreams and all.
If you like heat, dust and wind, southern Nevada is the place to be. But we also have crime, traffic jams and we are the *kof-kof* home of Harry Reid. If you can stand the stigma of living in his home state, come on down!
It was my home state before it was his and I will welcome you! FReepmail me if I can answer any questions.
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Thanks — you are most kind.
Nevada is a very transient state. If they reported the states people were planning to move *to* it would be near the top of the list.
All the others are Dem hellholes with net outmigration.
No series.... Stay!
Yup. They want to bring their malaise to other areas so we can all suffer equally. They can stay away from Texas as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah I had heard that. Lots of them came after the quake.
Funny thing is, I am out in Pahrump, if I want vegas I can just drive in, but I would never think of living there in the city proper.
The only area out there that seemed kind of rural to me was out by the silverton, behind the casino. More big lots and nice homes without the McMansions all painted the same colors lol.
You tell a Vegas person that they should have moved out here and they look at you like you are nuts. They seem to think that its like some kind of scary post apocalyptic world in Pahrump :)
We love it out here.
Hotter than hell in the summer....Colder than a whore's heart in the winter.
Ticks bigger than rabbits...and Chiggers bigger than mice.
Tornadoes that kill ya like gang banger's every spring....FLoods!! Earthquakes!!!
You all don't want to come to OK!!!
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