Another population heatmap.

South Carolina is going to stick out even more with that metric.

Truuuu

Important rule when looking at such maps, always ask yourself what the map is not showing

Well, these are net changes. If some amount of people moves from New York to California and the same amount moves the other direction, it doesn't show up.

Which means the map means even more nothing.

All the older gens been moving to Missouri. It's fucked the people from the state. It was a lower wage state with more affordable housing because of it. People from places like California sell off their crazy expensive house, but a home in Missouri, and have a big retirement and a spare six figures. Now people from Missouri can't afford homes or afford to retire. So many "landlords" are also originally from out of state. They moved here and bought a few extra townhouses so they don't have to work. I was lucky enough to get a house before things got crazy expensive. What I paid $130k for 15 years ago is now $300k at a much higher interest rate. No one from around here can afford that.

It's net movement, not gross. There's raw data that shows all 53 x 53 of how those born in the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and overseas live in the 50 states + DC + PR + non-US. I can't do the analysis easily from my phone, but you can break it out to what percentage of Americans live in a different state of birth. There's probably raw data that can show the Gen Z specific stats, too.

You get easily over 100k people moving a year and you think this is insignificant?

Yeah, I’d like to see per capita numbers.

Well, you looked at it, and engaged with it. So, job done?

If you add all the positive changes, you get 179k. This is 23.9% of GenZ according to the map, so the map claims there are 749k GenZ in total (of which 23.9% moved).

I'm not sure how they are calculating under 1 million GenZ in 2024. Anyway, the map is still bad for not doing population density per state.

that's not true. there's that law that makes playing cards in a pub illegal

Charleston is just about the only good thing South of Richmond. But like as a place to visit, I can't imagine wanting to live there.

If we're looking solely at cost of living, North Dakota compared to South Dakota also doesn't make much sense.

Lots of GenZ men proudly identify as fascist, so Idaho is the perfect fit.

Chip industry, both potato and RAM

Cheap potatoes?

It's such a shithole that housing might still be affordable?

Poor gen Z can't pay for jack shit

I'll put it this way, when you cross the border and stop at Savannah in Georgia. Man it feels like you escaped a crack den and returned to society, and this is Georgia...

Fargo is a surprisingly fun town to be in your 20's. Lots of music and a cool art scene.

I had a blast there in my early 20s. Lots of jobs and reasonable rents. Walkable neighborhoods.

There was a grateful dead cover band that played every Thursday night in this awesome space that used to be a theater. Danced my face off on the regular.

Or there are well educated Gen Z people from blue states who are moving to where to CoL is lower because the economy and job market have been royally fucked by the generations before them?

Or maybe, and far more likely, both are true among other reasons.

If 15,000 people from each state moved to Wyoming, we could take over the entire state in a couple years.

I feel like expense is only one part of it, because WA is also very expensive to live in and it gained.

There's a bit of shocked Pikachu going on after their relative swing to Trump in 2024. For a while it looked like they were lost to right-wing influencers and a saturated right-propaganda environment, but there's still hope. I guess we'll see in a month.