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- Orange County, CA is pretty interesting. There is a lot of migration inwards from the East Coast/Upper Midwest (e.g. PA, MI), but lots of migration outwards throughout the country. [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...]

- Oakland County [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] (Ann Arbor, U of M, Slashdot) and Wayne County (Detroit) [link:http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] in Michigan have mass flight.

- Multnomah County, OR [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] is a bunch of solid black lines from throughout the country. Everyone wants to be in Portland, but the Oregon unemployment numbers are comparable to Michigan, IIRC.

- Polk County, FL [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] seems to have mass migration from the East Coast, while leaking people the the west.

- Erie [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] (Buffalo, NY/Niagara Falls, NY) County in upstate New York seems to have seen a mass flight too.

[update] On re-reading my comments, you might take the numbers from Oakland County with a grain of salt. Ann Arbor is a college town to a large university, so some of that flight may just be people taking jobs after graduating (or dropping out of university and moving home).

[update] Added links



> Multnomah County, OR is a bunch of solid black lines from throughout the country. Everyone wants to be in Portland, but the Oregon unemployment numbers are comparable to Michigan, IIRC.

Both of our recent hires moved here first, and found a job afterwards. Portland is seen as hip and comparatively inexpensive, so if you're going to be unemployed, might as well do it here.


> Portland is seen as hip and comparatively inexpensive

Portland doesn't seems about the same cost-of-living-wise to Toronto, ON. So I don't really see it as 'cheap.' (Maybe compared to NYC...)


What company? Contemplating making the same move myself early next year ;)


Ann Arbor (and U of M, etc.) is in Washtenaw County, not Oakland.


Been away from Michigan too long apparently...




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