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Economy
Yankee Colonizers: Why people are getting the hell out of the Northeast
2017-07-27
[NYP] Last year, three states in the Northeast -- New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- landed in the top five places people were moving out of fastest, according to 2017 data from United Van Lines. (The other two states on the list were Illinois and Kansas.) And data from Pew Charitable Trusts found that while people are all about moving to the South (their population grew by nearly 1.4 million people from 2014 to 2015) and the West (866,000 more people), the population growth in the Northeast is "sluggish."

The Northeastern exodus is particularly acute in many big cities like New York City. Since 2010, more than 1 million people have moved from the New York area -- which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island -- to other parts of the country.

So why are so many Northerners packing their bags?
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  You already have these.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-27 16:37  

#16   Yea, but think positively - now you'll have kosher halal delis!
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-27 16:34  

#15  Yea, but think positively - now you'll have kosher delis!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-27 16:06  

#14  Imagine all those New Yorkers living day to day in New York and they look around and think to themselves, "All my neighbors are jerks." It doesn't occur to them that they are jerks too. Maybe it's something in the water or the dirty, crowded, noisy living conditions. So they move but wherever they go they keep encountering other New Yorkers. Now, all of you people like to talk about California but I can tell you for a fact, because I was here and I remember, that California wasn't always the way it is today. But shit happens and a lot of it was from New York.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-07-27 15:53  

#13   If global warming is so horrible why are they moving south?

More like their native climate.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-27 14:47  

#12  There is a general lack of spine among the elected leaders of even conservative strongholds. Oklahoma just went thru a lengthy budget battle and NEITHER side could seem to even MENTION "cutting spending"--instead the Dems and Republicans argued about WHICH method or methods of taxation/tolls would magically make the books balance. We have a lot of to worry about--creeping socialism is creeping more quickly than I remember it doing so previously.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-07-27 12:53  

#11  Washington still has a strong Republican constituency, they're drown out by the giveaway crowd in Seattle though. We used to be great : Dan Evans, Sid Morrison, Tom Foley...... at least the Cowles are in Spokane
Posted by: 746   2017-07-27 11:12  

#10  libtards in Ketchum too! idiots
Posted by: 746   2017-07-27 11:11  

#9  Some Libtards in Boise (North End) but most of the state won't put up with that nonsense. Long live the Redout!
Posted by: Warthog   2017-07-27 09:57  

#8  Also, I surprised there isn't movement out of CA.

Washington state wasn't always deep blue. At one time we had Republican Slade Gordon as our senator.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-07-27 09:37  

#7  I don't know about taxes in Kansas but taxes in NJ, NY, and CT, and IL are insanely high. Vermont seems to be doing well. Also, I surprised there isn't movement out of CA.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-27 09:05  

#6  I fled NJ for NC and now it's circling the drain. At least you can still walk around strapped. Ashville is becoming San Francisco east.
Posted by: NCMike   2017-07-27 08:53  

#5  If global warming is so horrible why are they moving south?
Posted by: AlanC   2017-07-27 08:14  

#4  Fascinating how so many state and local government employees who had no problem exploiting the local plantation population get a magical urge to move elsewhere when they retire.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-27 08:10  

#3  Every where they go to and effectively convert to liberalism dies also. They are parasites killing host after host and jumping over to another host when that is dead from libtardism.

There are some who see the light and turn away from liberalism. There are some hosts who turn on them and defend their successful region against them. These are the noble anti bodies that every conservative area should have but don't.

Don't stand by and listen. Interject yourself into their conversation. Let them know the house rules or they will be wishing they never came to Dodge City.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135   2017-07-27 03:50  

#2  They've already wrecked Virginia and NC is about gone. The Left Coast colonizers have wrecked Colorado and endangered AZ & NV; they are even threatening chunks of TX.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-07-27 01:04  

#1  CAUTION: Many are bringing their liberal political views with them.

I was visiting my favorite hardware store recently and overheard a fellow buying a logjack telling about the one he used to have at his place in Vermont. Overhearing him could not be helped. Other Georgia patrons within earshot looked as though they were listening to a martian. It was humorous, but somewhat depressing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-27 00:47  

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