Migration North led by Elders

[RodFarlee]

"While the number of people ages 75 and older who move at all is relatively small, a survey of geographic mobility released last month estimated that about 121,000 of them left the South from 2000 to 2005, and 87,000 arrived. In a comparable survey a decade earlier, 57,000 left the South and 92,000 moved there." according to a US Census survey released last week.

Reasons cited: hurricanes, family, better senior services, more walkable communities/less need to drive, according to the NYTimes article.

[TalmudTemple]

FL gets 1000 new folks each day...some of the people who can't afford it are leaving to Goobervilles in SC, GA, and east TN...

They are cashing out properties for huge gains and going back to cheapbutt areas.....works for me

[isabel]

Where have I heard goobervilles mentioned before...was it in a post by TT. Hummm.

Izzy

[Curious George]

Maybe mud is really gomer pile, an to him just about every ware is goobersvilles.
For somebody that claims to be so well educated an so well off he sounds more like a gomer .





Dose it say wear north or are they just moving off the coasts in land a bit?

[RodFarlee]

Originally Posted by Curious George

Does it say wear north or are they just moving off the coasts in land a bit?

The numbers above are the net migration out of the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia) to the rest of the U.S.

http://www.census.gov/population/www...o/migrate.html

[Curious George]

I don’t know if I would lump Delaware ,Maryland an DC in with being southern states.
There not any farther south than Cincinnati. unless they consider south, anything south of the border states with Canada.


As I read the story again I would say the 75 an older are moving home to finish out there years closer to family an loved ones .

[RodFarlee]

Originally Posted by Curious George

I don’t know if I would lump Delaware ,Maryland an DC in with being southern states.
There not any farther south than Cincinnati. unless they consider south, anything south of the border states with Canada.

That's the official US Census Bureau definition of "The South", drawn along the traditional the Mason-Dixon line. (In Delaware, we used to say we were neither north nor south of the Mason-Dixon line, but east of it. Technically true, but it figuratively ran right across the state, at roughly the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Maryland had segregated hotels, restaurants, and restrooms into the 1960s...)