Or there are well educated Gen Z people from blue states who are moving to where to CoL is lower because the economy and job market have been royally fucked by the generations before them?
Or maybe, and far more likely, both are true among other reasons.
State-level figures are reliable for taxes, school systems and healthcare provision, because those really are set at state level. They are unreliable for housing. A statewide median rent averages a major metropolitan area with rural counties and accurately describes neither of them: the gap between the cheapest and priciest metro inside one large state routinely exceeds the gap between two average states.
use this map the next time someone tries to tell you that you’re wrong when you say gen-z is filled with MAGA brain rot.
Or there are well educated Gen Z people from blue states who are moving to where to CoL is lower because the economy and job market have been royally fucked by the generations before them?
Or maybe, and far more likely, both are true among other reasons.
why would anybody move to shithole states like Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Arizona?
these are not just Republican strongholds, but have increased COL when compared to states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maine.
Hmmm
Cost of housing ≠ cost of living.
Also, hmmm.
yet you posted housing costs as a source for COL.
are you using AI or something to argue your point?
If 15,000 people from each state moved to Wyoming, we could take over the entire state in a couple years.
and what would happen to the states they came from?
oh yeah…they’d probably become red state shitholes.