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I think it is completely the opposite. A couple of years ago it seemed that City-Data forum had a lot more people asking about moving and a lot less people asking "Where's the best pizza in Huntsville" or "Where do the stars live in LA?"
Perhaps your area is doing poorly due to the economy. Without jobs available, most people wouldn't be moving to Alabama. And where the stars live is more of a tourist type question.
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Originally Posted by Charles
In 2007, I vaguely remember City-Data being around 500 on the top websites, now it's around 1400 according to:
Lots of things can bring down an internet site ranking. It all depends on the criteria used by the ranking source. It's not uncommon for ranking sources to change criteria and then site rankings change as well. Many things can influence internet site participation too. For instance, poor moderating decisions can cause a site to tank. I'm not saying that's the case here. I'm just providing an example. I recall making some bad decisions that caused a very busy site to slow down and it was a year before we could recover. It never truly recovered to the level it was. It's a fine line running an internet site for public participation.
I'm aware of that study. It covers a period ending March 2009. I guess this is all region specific. The areas that are doing well in the economy are probably the only areas seeing an increase in people moving into the area, and the areas doing the worst are seeing an increase in people moving out of the area. All other areas of the country that are just simply stuck in a recession (not doing well, but not in a depression) are probably not moving at all. That's why the numbers aren't there. So nationally, I guess there are less moves, but specific regions are very active.
Perhaps your area is doing poorly due to the economy. Without jobs available, most people wouldn't be moving to Alabama. And where the stars live is more of a tourist type question.
Lots of things can bring down an internet site ranking. It all depends on the criteria used by the ranking source. It's not uncommon for ranking sources to change criteria and then site rankings change as well. Many things can influence internet site participation too. For instance, poor moderating decisions can cause a site to tank. I'm not saying that's the case here. I'm just providing an example. I recall making some bad decisions that caused a very busy site to slow down and it was a year before we could recover. It never truly recovered to the level it was. It's a fine line running an internet site for public participation.
I'm aware of that study. It covers a period ending March 2009. I guess this is all region specific. The areas that are doing well in the economy are probably the only areas seeing an increase in people moving into the area, and the areas doing the worst are seeing an increase in people moving out of the area. All other areas of the country that are just simply stuck in a recession (not doing well, but not in a depression) are probably not moving at all. That's why the numbers aren't there. So nationally, I guess there are less moves, but specific regions are very active.
If we think of it, there are probably all sorts of indicators or metrics gauging increases or decreases in relocation: moving company statistics, U-Haul statistic, state tax records, real estate records, etc. In the context of the original post, I think it is pretty clear that overall the country as a whole has seen a decline in relocation.
However, like mentioned above in the quote, some places are hotter than others. I think I've read a lot lately about the DC area, new administration, big companies (Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, SAIC) having or making a bigger presence there, etc.
Huntsville is pretty hot due to the 4700 BRAC jobs moving from Northern Virginia - this is resulting in over 10,000 jobs moving to Huntsville - our forum is quite active. Unemployment is very low - for engineers, unemployment is 2/1000 or 0.2%, that's pretty low.
Finally simple internet searches provide reports of cities that indeed are active:
With so many people being laid off maybe people are taking the opportunity of having free time to relocate to a place where they'd really like to live. Instead of being tied down in a place they absolutely hate. It appears from reading lots of posts people are specifically moving from places that receive lots of snow. That's one reason I hate where I live because I'm tired of 12 years of shoveling that d@#% snow and then having to go to the chiropractor for the backpain it causes.
If there are more jobs in one or another then yes I would move .
So if you had a stable job, and a house and kids established in good schools and a nearly paid off mortgage in city A, you'd move to city B just because there were more (number or %?) jobs?
So if you had a stable job, and a house and kids established in good schools and a nearly paid off mortgage in city A, you'd move to city B just because there were more (number or %?) jobs?
When my mortgage is paid off and the kids graduate, I'd do it for the sheer adventure of it. I'd just rent my house out. I'd want to be able to come back.
We've stayed in this good school district, for the sake of the kids, way longer than I can stand!
When my mortgage is paid off and the kids graduate, I'd do it for the sheer adventure of it. I'd just rent my house out. I'd want to be able to come back.
We've stayed in this good school district, for the sake of the kids, way longer than I can stand!
We've been kicking this idea around for several years. When my husband was young, he had the opportunity to live overseas for two years while his father worked as a military liaison, and he would really like to see our children have the same wonderful experience. Now that our house is paid off, I told him to go for it if he can find something he wants to do. I'm always up for an adventure.
We've been kicking this idea around for several years. When my husband was young, he had the opportunity to live overseas for two years while his father worked as a military liaison, and he would really like to see our children have the same wonderful experience. Now that our house is paid off, I told him to go for it if he can find something he wants to do. I'm always up for an adventure.
Go for it! We wanted to do this sooner, but our kids reached the awkward age before we had a chance to leave. We decided to stay until they graduated. Now we're super excited at the opportunity to get out there and experience the world. We'll start out in the United States first. I don't want to just visit----I want to live it. Maybe we'll find out that there's no place like home (our city is known for friendly people) but at least we won't live our lives regretting that we never tried other parts of the country and world.
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