I enjoy numbers guy Nate Silver's column slyly entitled Silver Bulletin (vampires beware). Today he has 2022 Census data about Domestic In- and Out-Migration, plus International In-Migration for each of the 50 states.
He writes today to debunk an NBC News story claiming many were leaving Florida. Silver writes those leaving FL are relatively few. You'll remember I wrote about this two days ago.
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What I found particularly interesting in his column is that my adopted home state of Wyoming ranks second in both In-Migration and Out-Migration. Lots of Americans moving there, lots leaving, and few international migrants showing up.
I'll bet most of those leaving are young people seeking career employment. If you don't plan to make your life in agriculture, mining, government service, or hospitality, you'll probably go elsewhere for career employment. There isn't a lot of high tech or manufacturing in WY and there's no major airport in the entire state. All our long flights are out of Denver or Salt Lake City.
Probably many of those arriving in WY are retirees, like the DrsC, and a fair percentage of those, like us, don't winter there. In our little winter town on the NV-AZ border, it's a rare trip to the store or post office when we don't see other WY license plates.
There are also plenty from ID, UT, MT, the Dakotas and western Canada. Even a few down from AK. Living where the weather is nice year-round is a luxury affordable to many retirees, at the cost of moving one's base of operations twice a year.
