Posted on 01/05/2023 8:12:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
More moving trucks left from California than any other state in 2022 for the third year in a row, while more Americans are flocking to Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, a new study published on Jan. 3 has found.
The study was conducted by the moving truck rental company, U-Haul, and found that Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas were the preferred destinations for one-way moving trucks in 2022, with those states ranking as the top growth states on the annual U-Haul Growth Index.
U-Haul’s Growth Index is compiled according to the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks arriving in a state or city, versus those departing from that state or city each calendar year across the U.S. and Canada and is a strong indicator of what kind of job states and cities are attracting and maintaining residents, according to the company.
Texas is the top destination for U-Haul trucks for the second consecutive year and the fifth time since 2016, according to the study. That is followed by Florida, which has been a top-three growth state for seven years in a row. South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, and Idaho also saw strong growth rates in 2022, the study found.
Meanwhile, demand for moving trucks out of California, Illinois, and New York was strong in 2022 as more people opted to leave areas of the West Coast, Northeast, and Midwest, the study found.
California ranked 50th on U-Haul’s Growth Index, meaning it saw the greatest net loss of one-way U-Haul trucks out of the state, followed by Illinois, which ranked 49th in 2022, as it did in 2021. Michigan came in at 48, Massachusetts at 47, and New York at 46 on the list of growth for 2022.
John ‘J.T.’ Taylor, U-Haul International president, said that the trends seen in 2022 followed very similar patterns to 2021.
“We still have areas with strong demand for one-way rentals. While overall migration in 2021 was record-breaking, we continue to experience significant customer demand to move out of some geographic areas to destinations at the top of our growth list,” Taylor said.
Data published by the Texas Realtors’ association in 2020 found that the number of people moving from California to Texas was up 36 percent from 2017, and the trend appears to have continued.
A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, when asked by The New York Post about being the top destination by U-Haul customers, praised the state’s “booming economy.”
“People and businesses vote with their feet, and they are choosing to move to Texas more than any other state in the country,” Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze told the publication.
Separate data from the James Madison Institute, a Florida-based think tank, shows that between April 2020 to April 2021, almost 330,000 people moved to Florida, which is equal to roughly 903 people moving to the state each day. According to the think tank, this is part of a national trend that has been seen in recent years of Americans departing blue states for red states.
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The issue is FREE States and FEAR States!
Well, Texas is halfway between California and Florida, so, Florida is lucky that it doesn’t get as many nutty liberals as Texas.
Texas is losing congressional seats (and electoral votes), while Texas and Florida are gaining them.
Texas’ gain in population because of the illegal invasion from South and Central Florida, is also helping Texas to gain more congressional seats, and Florida is also gaining them. So, in a way, Biden is helping Texas and Florida to gein more congressional seats.
To bad the can’t say political leanings
Of The Exodus....
I know personally 10 Conservative Family’s
and one Goofy Libtard Niece.
As I’ve said.... Coercive Gerrymandering.
“Nutty Liberals”
Love the Stinking mess they made
In California....Why would They Leave?
I wouldn’t be surprised if U-haul started paying people to take trucks from TX to CA.
More accurately, ‘CA residents infecting Texas and Florida’.
As a Nevadan I have seen the result first hand, folk in TX and FL are NOT going to like the result.
Shortly after, the rest of the country will suffer for it too.
Already offering rates as low as $19.00
Not true at all, as Richard Barris and other conservative pollsters have shown, those leaving CA vote more conservative than the states they go to by 3 to 1 ratio. The myth of the white liberal is to cover the Hispanic block vote from illigal immigration, that is what happened in NV
If the U-hall trucks are not electric can they go to California?
“More U-Haul Trucks Left California Than Any Other State In 2022, Texas Top Destination, Followed by Florida: Study”
at least california knows which two states to set up satellite tax offices in ...
I went to Florida decades ago for a job interview.
It was in June-July, so I got the full dose of Florida summer heat, bugs, and humidity. I passed, and stayed in SoCal for a few more years.
Oh, more inaccurate polls.
Been here since ‘89, very involved at the legislature from 92-21.
Saw exactly how it went.
Had to stop going for my health and sanity.
At this point we are done for, so just concentrating on my own interest now while I may.
Not a myth in Texas.
Started in the 1980’s with Texas leaders wooing corporates to move their headquarters from blue states to Texas.
These companies brought along All their liberal employees with them and did not higher within the state.
We are having liberals flee their blue cesspools and move to Texas and infecting our state and changing our economic environment not for good. They think the ideas they fled are the way it should be.
**If you fled your failed state for economic opportunities in Texas, do not vote your failed state ways.**
The kinfolk said
“Jed, move away from there.”
So they loaded up the truck
and moved out of Beverly.
Hills, that is.
Soft on crime fools.
Entitlement hogs.
Taxin’ ghouls.
They already are.
THIS 👍
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