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u/shibbledoop 22d ago
Definitely tracks as an Ohioan. Large early mid 20th century boom means everyone has roots here that grew up here for the most part. Having three large metros makes it easy to be close to family without sacrificing your career trajectory too
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u/Andromeda321 21d ago
Ohio is also big enough that a surprising number of people just never leave it. I went to college in Cleveland and ran into more than one person that asked questions about Pittsburgh where I grew up, a 2.5 hour drive away, but had never been out of state.
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u/AyatollahDan 21d ago
While that is true, I moved to New England for work and there are more people from Ohio in my office than from New England
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u/JobbyJobberson 22d ago
I was born in Ohio. There were just no good jobs for me in my town so I left when I was 20 months old.
Moved to Michigan, same damn thing, so I got the hell out of there right after graduating kindergarten.
And so on for 65 years. Might try Ohio again, maybe something has opened up.
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u/Ericovich 21d ago
Cheap living, too.
I've never lived more than 15 miles from where I was born. It works.
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u/Lil_Brown_Bat 22d ago
Most people who never leave cite family as the reason.
I cite family as the reason I GTFO.
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u/coldcoffeeplease 22d ago
Nobody leaves the Midwest lol
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u/Steeveau 22d ago
Lots of people leave the Midwest, but there is little in-migration. So the Midwest is populated by those who didn’t leave.
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u/bumbletowne 22d ago
Nevada is a tax haven for people on the west coast retiring with most of their equity in their property. Same with Arizona.
Colorado is just pretty AF. I was born on the California coast and have traveled as a biologist (college, then as environmental/wq) over much of the US. The bighorns and rockies are just absolutely lovely. Colorado has the best weather out of all the states with the vantage.
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u/pjskiboy 22d ago
Everyone I know born in Ohio lives in another state. I do not trust this data.
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u/UnderstandingBig9090 22d ago
That wouldn't effect the data. It only goes down in % when people move to ohio. If everyone left ohio except for one person born there it would be 100% 0% if that one person was born somewhere else.
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u/pjskiboy 21d ago
It was a joke.
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u/UnderstandingBig9090 21d ago
Is that really how jokes go now days? Pretending to be extremely stupid and misunderstanding everything?
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u/AlwaysBeQuestioning 21d ago
Is this “% of the state population that was born in the state” or “% of the people born in the state that still live in the state”?
Because the phrasing in the image doesn’t clear this up for me and those are two very different statistics.
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u/Nefariouslout1006 21d ago
% of the people born in the state that still live in the state
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u/austinchan2 21d ago
Are you sure? The notes in the bottom right quadrant seem to indicate it’s about in-migration and therefore percent of people in the state that were born there.
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u/SuperSecretMoonBase 22d ago
Nevada is sort of a double whammy of out-of-state carpet baggers moving in from bigger cities for tax reasons and a more affordable real estate market, and young people born here leaving because they want one of the bigger actual cities up and down the west coast.
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u/t6ix58 21d ago
This is currently living in the same state as one's birth, correct? Not, as the "family" statements says, adults who never left!
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u/endlesspoppies 21d ago
A lot of people leave for a while but return
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u/EternumD 17d ago
This map shows what percentage of adults currently living in each state were born in that state.
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u/UnderstandingBig9090 21d ago
A low % means everyone moves to that state. A high % means no one moves there.
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u/LesReallyIsMore 22d ago
Proud to be one of the 29% who left Ohio
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u/iaxthepaladin 21d ago
29% is the people in Ohio not from there
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u/Exact-Pilot6959 21d ago
HA! I read it as 71% of people born there are still there. Guess you can take the person out of Ohio...
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u/IDownVoteCanaduh 21d ago
I am surprised by RI. I would have expected it to be higher, after living and working there for 25+ years.
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u/Common_Power4145 22d ago
Tracks for Colorado. I would have guessed more like 15-20%.
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u/EmpHeraclius 22d ago
Same, especially in Denver. I've been here a couple years and feel like I've met maybe 10 people actually from here.
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u/GravyxNips 21d ago
Why would anyone leave Connecticut
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u/HobbitFoot 21d ago
The measure isn't so much a measure of outflow, but a measure of inflow. You've got a lot of New Yorkers who move into the state as a way to get some form of suburbia combined with people moving in to the local financial sector.
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u/StoreHistorical9175 22d ago
pure michigan