re: Everyone is moving to SEC Country

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It's a cycle. People will get tired of traffic and prices in the south and move other places. Then it will flip again.

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Outside the south and outside the US. Cost of living isn't a fixed number, it's relative to income.

In either case, Florida's has been going up with all the new people.

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+56,000 Alabama

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Florida has always done pretty well as a retirement state, but there is a real affordability issue. More and more people are starting to feel the impacts.

While still net positive inward, there are also a record number of people leaving the state in recent years.

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Texas is full

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7,944,000- Dallas*
7,368,000- Houston*
6,237,000- Atlanta*
6,139,000- Miami*
3,291,000- Tampa+
2,801,000- St Louis*
2,764,000- Orlando
2,756,000- Charlotte*
2,655,000- San Antonio*
2,421,000- Austin+
2,209,000- Kansas City*
2,072,000- Nashville
1,676,000- Jacksonville
1,484,000- Raleigh
1,459,000- Oklahoma City
1,362,000- Louisville*
1,340,000- Memphis*
1,181,000- Birmingham*
1,034,000- Tulsa*
973,000- New Orleans*
959,000- Greenville
932,000- Knoxville
891,000- Sarasota
888,000- McAllen
873,000- Baton Rouge
872,000- El Paso+
848,000- Columbia, SC+
831,000- Charleston, SC
822,000- Fort Myers
787,000- Lakeland
784,000- Greensboro
758,000- Little Rock*

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