Quality of life is a major factor in where Americans choose to work, live and make major purchases including homes. These states are the nation's worst.
Yes, it's because they're not great people. Definitely nothing to do with the horrific cost of living due to higher rent and state taxes in blue states.
Work and economics was my point all along. The other metrics mentioned by the original article are subjective. People care more about being able to survive financially than the ability to chemically castrate their child.
Lmao you live in a bubble, bud. Most people that are moving here are families who left due to increased cost of living from shitty policies made by democrat governors.
I'm from Florida, I work in public service. A lot of the people moving here from blue states are bigots who either got priced out of their home state or rich people who want to be bigger pieces of shit than they could from their original state. Sure, sure, anecdotes aren't evidence or whatever. But it's a pretty noticeable trend. Florida has gotten measurably shittier in every way in the last few years.
I used pods to move from California to SC because I can work remotely, get paid a CA wage, could afford a house for the first time, while living close to family in SC.
Covid lockdowns in big cities made them feel much smaller and that started to feel a little claustrophobic- living in a tiny apartment, not really leaving that much. At least there’s more room to stretch out in smaller cities, but now that things are seemingly going back to normal (not that I think SC had any shifts in that aspect to begin with), I’d much rather be somewhere that doesn’t feel so hostile.
That being said, after a couple years of being here the vibes here are bad and I intend on moving possibly to Minneapolis as soon as I can.