Migrations
February 3, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »Two maps from the Mint.com blog.
First, moving from one of the most expensive cities to one of the highest-rated small towns. If you move from San Francisco to Farmington, Utah, for example, see what you’d be gaining in terms of cost of living. Click on the house icons to see specifics.
Next, who’s moved where during the recession. Click on the map to see it full size.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Another way to see the first one is that these maps show the monetary value of a higher quality of life. That is, people find it worthwhile to spend much more to live in San Francisco than in Farmington. Why is that? And given the obvious tremendous market demand for places like San Francisco (dense, walkable, gay-friendly, almost no freeways) why do government policies supported by self-proclaimed free-marketeers make it so hard to build places like that?