A Moving Story in the NYT Magazine

Actually the story is that people are not moving. Adam Davidson had a piece noting the sharp decline in the percentage of the population that is move out of state each year.

While the share of movers has fallen sharply, there are two important points about the data worth noting. First, there has been a downward trend in share of interstate movers in the population since the late 70s. There is an obvious reason for this: the aging of the population. People are most likely to pick up and move w...