American dream? Let’s talk about American nightmares. This expansive and storied country is brimming with ghost stories, apparitions, haunted houses, and other hot spots of paranormal activity that date back centuries and persist to the modern day. In which states are horror aficionados most likely to get their fix of the heebie-jeebies? With Halloween right […]
The future of America may lie in Texas. Based on current migration trends, moveBuddha predicts that by 2100, Dallas, Houston, and Austin will replace NYC, LA, and Chicago as the country’s most populous cities. Metro Area Year 2100 Rank 2100 Population Current Rank Current Population Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 1 33.91M 4 7.7M Houston, TX 2 […]
The migration tides are turning in Oklahoma. The Sooner State has long been in the shadow of neighboring Texas, but it’s facing a resurgence. Oklahoma’s gains in net domestic migration in 2021 were the highest since at least 1999. 2022 was a great year, too. moveBuddha data shows that Oklahoma ranked 11th for the most […]
Austin is still America’s fastest-growing metro area by many standards. According to Census figures, the Austin MSA population swelled by a staggering 84% between 2000 and 2020. Austin saw a flurry of in-flow moving interest in the early pandemic migration boom. But moveBuddha’s recent data shows the interest may be waning, and outward migration is […]
In practically every corner of the United States, there lives a pocket of Irish culture, whether it be locals of Irish ancestry or a pub named O’Connor’s. In fact, nearly 10% of Americans identify as Irish, including U.S. President Joe Biden. (Finnegan is his mother’s maiden name.) If we look back into American history, the […]
This tropical Silicon Beach provided tech crews a remote work paradise during other states’ Covid lockdowns, and it looks like that trend has continued though outbreaks have subsided. Politics seems to be driving continual moves from states like California and New York, as more people who might be best able to afford high taxes and […]
The South is rising again in South Carolina. Long overshadowed by larger neighbors, a tide of new residents is seeing this coastal gem as their #1 destination. So far in 2024, the state is snagging the highest rate of new moves in the country, up 5% since 2023. Today, 2.18 new South Carolinians move in […]
The Big Apple suffered some COVID-19 bruises in 2020 when over 100K residents noped out of a dense city with some of the highest COVID transmissions and death rates. Many returned, but the city still hasn’t fully recovered. Are newcomers moving in to take a bite of the apple, or has the big city lost […]
An outdoors lover’s paradise, from Arches National Park to Zion National Park and the Great Salt Lake, pandemic-era movers flocked to the naturally social-distanced spaces of Utah. Are movers still heading to Utah, or are locals enduring overcrowding looking to head out? Big takeaways While Utah was a popular state to move to in 2020, […]
