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Young Americans Are Leaving These 10 States. Truth Behind the Trend. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 8 OP
ME, VT, NH, RI, PA, OR, MT, WV, HI, FL CurtEastPoint Dec 8 #1
OR, HI and FL surprise me. LonePirate Dec 8 #2
OR is a surprise Sanity Claws Dec 8 #4
No surprise about #1... buzzycrumbhunger Dec 8 #3
Boomers are dying off Warpy Dec 8 #5
He's not wrong about the New England states Bristlecone Dec 8 #6

Sanity Claws

(22,349 posts)
4. OR is a surprise
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:44 PM
Dec 8

but not the other two.
Hawaii is very expensive and you are very far from everywhere else. Florida is losing lots of people, not just young.

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,686 posts)
3. No surprise about #1...
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:32 PM
Dec 8

If I could afford to leave Florida—and could figure out a place I’d rather be—I’d have been out of here a decade ago.

Warpy

(114,444 posts)
5. Boomers are dying off
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:51 PM
Dec 8

so this is a topic that will have to be revisited in about 30 years when most of us are gone.

It seems the real prroblem in most of the states losing population is disparity between wages and housing. Since states have failed to manage housing construction, opting for the high tax base luxury housing instead of lower tax base apartments and townhouses in inner suburbs, the only way they now have to hang onlo productive population is to increase wages, but I hardly see a stampede to do that. I think the magical thinking is that all they have to do is wait for all the Boomers to die and housing prices will somehow magically decrease and young people will be happier to stay and work for peanuts.

Bristlecone

(11,022 posts)
6. He's not wrong about the New England states
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:23 PM
Dec 8

Housing is very expensive. Property taxes are very high. We lived in NH on the seacoast and it’s really pricey.

There also is not a ton of opportunity for young people. Most head to MA.

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