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Where the hell are people "moving across the continent every few years"?
by Hamuko 4y ago
Where the hell are people "moving across the continent every few years"?
- labster 4y agoThe US and Canada.
- djbusby 4y agoUSA. Eg: Seattle has lots of out-of-state migrants, as does SFBay, Boston and NY.
- Hamuko 4y agoWhat's the source for that? Doesn't sound right when I've seen claims such as "nearly 72% of Americans live in or close to the city where they grew up" [1] and "the typical adult lives only 18 miles from his or her mother" [2]. [1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/what-percentage-of-americans-currently-live-in-the-town-or-city-where-they-grew-up-300952249.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/what-percentage-of-... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...
- chucksmash 4y agoThe irony of having this discussion on a site run by people who pay potential founders to move across the continent for a couple of months.
- mardifoufs 4y agoWhere's the irony? Do you think HN is a good representation of the US population as a whole?
- chucksmash 4y agoAssuming you are posting in good faith, the irony to me is that this whole discussion is even happening, stemming from the post: > Where the hell are people "moving across the continent every few years"? Because the answer is right here, on this very website. They are asking us* to prove our existence. Perhaps it'd be more correct to call it incongruity. Perhaps also more correct to have replied directly to the "Where the hell...?" comment as opposed to this one. I hope this isn't a segue into an "Alanis Morrissette isn't ironic" internet conversation. * - some of us
- mardifoufs 4y agoYeah sorry I was asking in good faith, though I see how my comment could come off as snarky. But I understand what you mean now :)
- Hamuko 4y ago>They are asking us* to prove our existence. This is a strawman.
- sacnoradhq 4y agoSeems a Good Thing(tm) signaling economic activity and a draw that more people want to be in proximity of said activity.
- vonmoltke 4y agoFirst, "out of state" doesn't mean "across the continent" (though that is more likely in Seattle or SF, since they're rather isolated from out of state population centers). Second, that is not evidence in the slightest of people doing this "every few years". Hell, most people don't want to move locally that often, let alone an expensive and very disruptive long distance move.
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- ajsnigrutin 4y agohttps://www.census.gov/topics/population/migration/guidance/calculating-migration-expectancy.html https://www.census.gov/topics/population/migration/guidance/... This is geoblocked in slovenia, but the google summary says: > Using 2007 ACS data, it is estimated that a person in the United States can expect to move 11.7 times in their lifetime If we neglect the student ages for those without student housing or living nearby, most people here move from their parents to their own place, maybe again if they're renting, and then to a "better place" if they can afford one later on. 11.7 times is way above what most people here do. 80 years of life, 11.7 movings, 6.8 years between moving. Realistically more often than that during younger years, since I'd guess retired people move less often.
- nonethewiser 4y agoYou didn’t address the “across the continent every few years” part. Moving frequently on average in no way indicates they are moving across the country every few years.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoEven if they don't move half a continent away, they'd still need to buy a house, furnish it, fix a bunch of stuff, then live in it for <7 years, fix it up again (atleast cosmetically), sell it, buy a new one, all the hassle of moving and new furniture because not all of the old stuff fits, new fixes of stuff that was just cosmetically fixed, and in <7 years again.
- wil421 4y agoI’ve probably moved 12 times including when I was a student and none of the times were out of state.