The top 2 states people are fleeing?

[RetiredGySgt]

None other then California and New York.

biggest-losers-where-americans-are-not-moving: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

 

[Si modo]

I am not surprised.

 

[Xenophon]

They also happen to be two of the highest taxed welfare states.

 

[Mr. H.]

Sea levels are going to rise. Didn't you get the memo?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Sea levels are going to rise. Didn't you get the memo?

Hey stupid IF that is the criteria for people leaving then Florida should be a ghost State. It is the lowest elevation State of all. Not to mention all the other Coastal States.

 

[matty]

Knew MI would be third, surprised it wasn't 2nd, you see those numbers?--10mil!?omG

 

[JW Frogen]

The “Invisible Hand” givith and the Invisible Hand taketh away.

 

[JW Frogen]

Meanwhile the Chinese buy up the US mortgage using good, old fashioned mercantilism.

I do not praise this, I weep at the spectacle.

 

[JW Frogen]

I really hope I am really wrong here, but I suspect the late 20th century, and the early 21 century will be titled by historians, ‘How free market economists helped America commit economic suicide.”

That is if any real history is allowed under a Chinese hegemony?

 

[California Girl]

The “Invisible Hand” givith and the Invisible Hand taketh away.

I hate the Invisible Hand. It's really hard to slap when it grabs one's ass.

 

[veritas]

California has like 37M people. A year where less than 100k move out is such a small percentage so as to be meaningless.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

California has like 37M people. A year where less than 100k move out is such a small percentage so as to be meaningless.

I guess you missed the part where they have been losing people every year for a while now. Of course no one has accused you of actually paying attention before, have they?

 

[matty]

So, you all rested up, RGS?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

So, you all rested up, RGS?

Depressed and don't sleep much ( or when worse sleep all the time) No I am not rested up.

 

[WillowTree]

California has like 37M people. A year where less than 100k move out is such a small percentage so as to be meaningless.

no,,,, they probably paid taxes. so now the parasites in ca will have one hundred thousand less people earning their livings for them..

 

[Mr. H.]

Sea levels are going to rise. Didn't you get the memo?

Hey stupid IF that is the criteria for people leaving then Florida should be a ghost State. It is the lowest elevation State of all. Not to mention all the other Coastal States.

Oh. I sea.

 

[Annie]

The two states with the most government enforced 'rights' and most restrictive governments. I'm not surprised. Do they even know what they are wrecking?

 

[Old Rocks]

And here in good old green Oregon, we are still gaining people in spite of a very high unemployment rate. Go figure.