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Re:Brain Drain Across the United States by refurb on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:53PM (#19769015)
Huh! The fastest growing states in 2018 were: Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Florida and Washington.[1]

[1]https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/estimate...

Re:Brain Drain Across the United States by wyldfire on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:59PM (#19769040)
Population changes are due to more than just migration. Birth and death rates are also significant factors.
Re:Brain Drain Across the United States by SantalBlush on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:13PM (#19769100)
That's percentage growth, not numeric growth. So while their population increase was largely due to national migration, those migration numbers didn't need to be very high because they don't have huge populations (except Florida).
Re:Brain Drain Across the United States by sethhochberg on Sunday April 28, 2019 @12:54AM (#19769418)
Even in FL, anecdotally I know many people who moved there from CA or CO or NY not because they disliked the place they came from, but because they were forced out by influxes of _other_ people who made more money, drove cost of living up, etc. The sentiment is basically "Florida isn't as nice, but its cheap, so we make do because we have to." The brain drain from much of the rest of the country into a few small metro areas is forcing lots of middle-income people from those areas to migrate to cheaper places, and this would seemingly skew the numbers when you're looking at overall population migration.
Re:Brain Drain Across the United States by ikeyany on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:37AM (#19769538)
My theories:

ID/UT/AZ -> Lower/middle class people can no longer afford to live comfortably in California

FL/WA -> People are getting sick of the progressively longer, shittier winters in the midwest/northeast