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Posted: 4/29/2017 3:34:00 PM EDT
Migration from U.S. north to south is highest in decade
Employment booms in Florida, Georgia and other ‘sand states’

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Susan Gifford moved last August from Rome, New York, to Garden City, South Carolina, where she lives in a home two miles from the beach. “The weather was the motivating factor, getting away from winter,” the 67-year-old retired teacher said.

Almost 600,000 Americans moved from the Midwest and Northeast to the Sun Belt states last year, the most since 2005, according to Brookings Institution demographer William Frey. Migration is boosting growth along Southeast and Western coasts as well as Nevada and Arizona, reflecting a healthier national economy that has made it easier to re-locate.

Retirement centers Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and The Villages near Orlando were the fastest growing metro areas in the U.S. in the year ended July 1, while a flow of younger workers have led to employment booms in Florida, Georgia and Nevada, all growing at almost twice the rate of the nation.

“There’s been a renewed push of people moving to the Sun Belt,” said IHS Markit economist Karl Kuykendall. “The 2009 recession slowed it down because of the housing slump and severely hurt resident mobility. More people are back to moving south and west for better jobs, and there is retiree migration as well...............

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Link Posted: 4/29/2017 3:36:55 PM EDT
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In before "my state is closed"
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 3:39:16 PM EDT
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They like Californians should not be allowed to flee the mess they created, but it is obvious why they are doing it Democrats never ever take personal responsibility for anything in life.
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It's crazy here in AZ. A lot of northeasterners and Californians lately, more than the usual. 
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like in Colorado, they are metastasis of a liberal disease.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 3:42:46 PM EDT
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New Yorkers discovered Roanoke several years ago.  
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I think Hawaii says it best



short and to the point.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 3:46:54 PM EDT
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Can't wait for my trek
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 3:51:08 PM EDT
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They ALL made their bed, let them fucking lie in it.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 3:51:32 PM EDT
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You can't stop me

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They've discovered East Tn lately also. People from Connecticut have also.
Now we get the "But that's not how we do it in ****"   Then please go the fuck back if you don't like how we do it here.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 3:55:41 PM EDT
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Let me tell youse how we did it in Joisey!
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Can't wait for my trek
Let me tell youse how we did it in Joisey!
Ill save you a spot.



There are plenty of nursing homes.
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Democracy is the problem.  Just because 100 million wackos all have the same opinion doesnt make it right. Then they can move but they cant destroy the community.
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My wife and I spent a few days in/around Ft. Myers, Florida in March. I was astonished at how much development was underway, and at how bad the traffic was. :)
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:05:49 PM EDT
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Malignancy.
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That is my travel spot every winter.

The place has changed quite a bit in just the last few years.

Still prefer Ft. Myers to Naples though.
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That is my travel spot every winter.

The place has changed quite a bit in just the last few years.

Still prefer Ft. Myers to Naples though.
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My wife and I spent a few days in/around Ft. Myers, Florida in March. I was astonished at how much development was underway, and at how bad the traffic was. :)
That is my travel spot every winter.

The place has changed quite a bit in just the last few years.

Still prefer Ft. Myers to Naples though.
Every single year, I become more and more convinced that we need to divide the state. Somewhere around Ocala, maybe.

We have a North and South Carolina, and a North and South Dakota, and those work well. North Florida and South Florida sounds wonderful. The yankees can stay in Palm Beach and WTFever else is down there and ruin THEIR lives while leaving North Florida relatively untouched.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:14:07 PM EDT
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Heading back to the southwest in ~20yrs
Fuck the northeast
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:14:25 PM EDT
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And they will bring their voting habits with them....
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Yep my straight republican voting habits
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:19:28 PM EDT
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Pass.

I plan on eventually leaving NY, but that ain't where I'm heading.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:19:42 PM EDT
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Fucking liberal lefty parasite cockroaches destroy their area then move to a free state to get away from what they've done and quickly proceed to try and turn that state into their utopian shithole.
FUCK OFF DIE AND ROT KALIFORNIA, NORTHWEST MIDWEST AND YANKEE SCUM !!








holy shit, where's the Tylenol.........
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:22:00 PM EDT
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YES!  We have a housing shortage in Idaho Falls, seems more and more diversity and not a house for them.  Escape from all your weather problems and move to the Rockies and raise horses
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:22:58 PM EDT
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Just so you know, every stereotype you've heard about Alabama is true.  We run about bare footed, marry our sisters, and constantly spit tobacco.

You wouldn't like it here.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:23:18 PM EDT
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They will turn Florida in just a few years
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:23:22 PM EDT
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We have a North and South Carolina, and a North and South Dakota, and those work well. North Florida and South Florida sounds wonderful. The yankees can stay in Palm Beach and WTFever else is down there and ruin THEIR lives while leaving North Florida relatively untouched.
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My wife and I spent a few days in/around Ft. Myers, Florida in March. I was astonished at how much development was underway, and at how bad the traffic was. :)
That is my travel spot every winter.

The place has changed quite a bit in just the last few years.

Still prefer Ft. Myers to Naples though.
Every single year, I become more and more convinced that we need to divide the state. Somewhere around Ocala, maybe.

We have a North and South Carolina, and a North and South Dakota, and those work well. North Florida and South Florida sounds wonderful. The yankees can stay in Palm Beach and WTFever else is down there and ruin THEIR lives while leaving North Florida relatively untouched.
I saw plenty of Trump posters / stickers in the winter of 2016 in the Ft Myers area.

Maybe do a West / East Split?
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:25:36 PM EDT
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They do not come to flee. They come to recreate what they claim to have left. I have seen first hand, over decades what the NY/NJ metro crowd does to an area.
They ALL claim to be "different than the others", but in reality they are all exactly the same and bring the same with them.

I do not wish it on anyone.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:28:24 PM EDT
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fucking locusts
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And you church goers............

All of our church services are primitive snake handling services. No traditional or contemporary services here!
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The same is true for WV, only way worse. I'd stay away, it's a horror show here.
Ever see Wrong Turn, Deliverance, or The Hills Have Eyes? Yep, that's what it's like here, completely true.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:29:42 PM EDT
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Same with Georgia. We are fucked.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:32:10 PM EDT
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We've seen waves of yankees flocking to NC in the past 20 yrs.  What was once a solidly red state is now almost blue.  

You'd think they would learn after turning  their northern states into liberal shitholes.
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We've seen waves of yankees flocking to NC in the past 20 yrs.  What was once a solidly red state is now almost blue.  

You'd think they would learn after turning  their northern states into liberal shitholes.
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We've seen waves of yankees flocking to NC in the past 20 yrs.  What was once a solidly red state is now almost blue.  

You'd think they would learn after turning  their northern states into liberal shitholes.
They DID learn. They learned how to be as destructive as locusts, destroying one haven before moving on to the next.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:37:15 PM EDT
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We're going to need two walls.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:37:58 PM EDT
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I really do hate the northeast and everything it stands for.
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Don't worry about me, I am conservative and so is my wife.  I hate the way things are in NY, but I have no plans to move to the south or southwest.  Oppressive heat is not for me.  

I like NH and PA.  Maybe as more libs leave those states the relatively few conservative people from upstate N.Y. can move in and tilt the balance to being red states.  Their weather is much more to my liking.
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Really?  How do your gun laws compare to NH and ME?
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 4:44:31 PM EDT
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Goddamn parasite Yankees.
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Not everyone from the northeast is a leftist douchebag, but whatever.
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Don't bother. Education is not the South's strong suit.
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Not everyone from the northeast is a leftist douchebag, but whatever.
Don't bother. Education is not the South's strong suit.


Obesity is though.
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The same is true for WV, only way worse. I'd stay away, it's a horror show here.
Ever see Wrong Turn, Deliverance, or The Hills Have Eyes? Yep, that's what it's like here, completely true.
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Just so you know, every stereotype you've heard about Alabama is true.  We run about bare footed, marry our sisters, and constantly spit tobacco.

You wouldn't like it here.
The same is true for WV, only way worse. I'd stay away, it's a horror show here.
Ever see Wrong Turn, Deliverance, or The Hills Have Eyes? Yep, that's what it's like here, completely true.
There's actually a road in WV called Shades of Death Road.  My wife wouldn't let me go see where it led.  
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Link Posted: 4/29/2017 5:07:22 PM EDT
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This.
Link Posted: 4/29/2017 5:11:27 PM EDT
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From people I know personally the most popular states are,North Carolina,South Carolina,Georgia,Florida,Tennessee.

I've known a few to go to Delaware,Colorado and California but the trend for Nyers is definitely the states I listed above.

ETA this trend is nothing new
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Just so you know, every stereotype you've heard about Alabama is true.  We run about bare footed, marry our sisters, and constantly spit tobacco.

You wouldn't like it here.
The same is true for WV, only way worse. I'd stay away, it's a horror show here.
Ever see Wrong Turn, Deliverance, or The Hills Have Eyes? Yep, that's what it's like here, completely true.
There's actually a road in WV called Shades of Death Road.  My wife wouldn't let me go see where it led.  
NJ has one too.
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