Top reasons Americans relocate

When I was a young man, I moved often. Then I found a good job, got married, and children quickly followed. I stopped moving. That job is long gone, the kids are grown up and living elsewhere, but I'm still married to the same person and haven't moved in decades. Apparently, I'm a rare bird, because Americans like to move. More than 40 million of us move every year and we have been changing residences at that rate at least as far back as the 1990s. While the propensity to go from one home to another doesn't change much, others patterns regularly shift: in particular, where we go, where we leave and why we are going. For many years now, the main outbound migration region in the United States was the Great Lakes area. That has changed. According to the United Van Lines 35th annual migration study, the Northeast is now the place most people leave.

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