When people retire from their great paying job in California or Michigan, often they move to a low tax/low cost of living state. Not that they want to. They can't afford to stay.
I can't imagine leaving MI
Is it really that much cheaper to live in Ohio?
Births are plummeting and deaths are rising. More people pack up and leave the state every year than residents of other states move in. Ohio is growing faster than Michigan. So is Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and every other state in the Midwest.
younger workers see the auto industry as staid and old-fashioned.
Michigan has been losing population amid slowing birth rates that don’t replace deaths as people are aging. Post-pandemic, experts at the Citizens Research Council expect Michigan births to slightly outpace deaths over the next decade, but as the population ages, that gap will grow smaller and, by 2040-45, deaths are expected to routinely outnumber births.
They were asked to rank 12 factors on a scale of 1 to 10. The cost of housing/rent (8.6), low crime rates (8.3), and the affordability and availability of higher education or job training (7.9) were given greatest importance, while living around people their own age (6.2), the weather (6.3) and good public transportation and walkable communities (6.6) also were ranked.