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  Wandering Californians
Migration Posted by Charlene Wheeler on Friday May 17, @04:43PM
from the can't stay put dept.
The 2000 Census results are in and it says nearly half of Californians move every 5 years, according to an article in the Santa Maria Times. Between 1995 and 2000, 45.4% of Californians moved from one home to another.
Most movers stayed within the same county, and the majority of those that crossed county lines stayed in California.

50% of Californians didn't move from their home or apartment between 1995-2000. Most of these were in the state's wealthiest cities and its poorest towns and neighborhoods.

Californians move more often than Midwesterners and Southerners, but the western states in general have equally mobile residents.

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    Re: Wandering Californians
    by Ferris on Saturday May 18, @01:56AM
    I would be interested in seeing the same data from the previous census. I bet that a lot of that movement is because of the boom in the economy during that same period. I would also bet that people were more sedentary in previous years since there wasn't so much money flowing through American neighborhoods, which means there wasn't as much peer pressure to move up to fancier houses from newly made millionaires and other benificiaries of the dot.com explosion.
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    Re: Wandering Californians
    by joe ruddy on Wednesday May 22, @05:49PM
    i think that this movement may have occured from the increase in housing costs. i moved here to lompoc, in 1995 and my parents bought a home for just over $100,000. when they finally sold it in 2001 the made about a 200% profit off of it. also apartment rents are increasing every year too, which forces families to look for lower cost housing, forcing them to move.
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