California
California is ideal for its beachy and outdoorsy lifestyles, but the unbelievable housing prices and living costs make it a nightmare. It has an outbound move rate of 54.4%. People primarily move out for jobs, and then family issues, and then retirement. “Unlike a few decades ago, retirees are leaving California, instead choosing other states in the Pacific West and Mountain West,” said Michael Stoll, a public policy economist from the University of California, Los Angeles.
California
Michigan
With its 55% outbound move rate, the glorious parks and thousands of miles of coastline offer nature lovers a lot of adventures. The state has job opportunities in management, math, and computers, but it has even more low-paying work like in food preparation. The congressional Joint Economic Committee has dubbed Michigan the 7th state for “brain drain” as younger, educated workers flee the Wolverine State for other opportunities elsewhere. Around half of those who moved out in 2018 said that jobs are the primary reason for the move. For nearly a quarter, the driving factor was retirement instead.
Michigan
