As part of yesterday’s reader roulette I stumbled upon this interactive map from Forbes Magazine which shows where Americans moved from and to in 2008. Click on any county in the nation and it will display black lines representing where people are moving from (in to the county) and red lines representing where people are moving to (out of the county). The more black lines, the more people are moving to an area (and where from) and them more red lines, the more people are moving away from an area (and where to). Pretty cool.
Look at the map for Mecklenburg County in North Carolina (Charlotte) and you see much more black than red. People are migrating to Mecklenburg, mainly from the northeast, Great Lakes, and Florida
But if you look at the map for Suffolk County in New York (Long Island) it’s almost entirely red. People are deserting Long Island en masse for pretty much anywhere.
Very interesting.
