Re:Interactive Map: Where Americans Are Moving
by dminor on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @11:44AM
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> Multnomah County, OR is a bunch of solid black lines from throughout the country. Everyone wants to be in Portland, but the Oregon unemployment numbers are comparable to Michigan, IIRC.
Both of our recent hires moved here first, and found a job afterwards. Portland is seen as hip and comparatively inexpensive, so if you're going to be unemployed, might as well do it here.
> Portland is seen as hip and comparatively inexpensive
Portland doesn't seems about the same cost-of-living-wise to Toronto, ON. So I don't really see it as 'cheap.' (Maybe compared to NYC...)
Re:Interactive Map: Where Americans Are Moving
by maukdaddy on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @03:44PM
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What company? Contemplating making the same move myself early next year ;)
- Oakland County [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] (Ann Arbor, U of M, Slashdot) and Wayne County (Detroit) [link:http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] in Michigan have mass flight.
- Multnomah County, OR [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] is a bunch of solid black lines from throughout the country. Everyone wants to be in Portland, but the Oregon unemployment numbers are comparable to Michigan, IIRC.
- Polk County, FL [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] seems to have mass migration from the East Coast, while leaking people the the west.
- Erie [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] (Buffalo, NY/Niagara Falls, NY) County in upstate New York seems to have seen a mass flight too.
[update] On re-reading my comments, you might take the numbers from Oakland County with a grain of salt. Ann Arbor is a college town to a large university, so some of that flight may just be people taking jobs after graduating (or dropping out of university and moving home).
[update] Added links