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Map: Where Americans Are MovingMore than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement.Three maps, three stories.
The top map is Cleveland, where I used to live. Everybody’s leaving. It looks like an explosion.
The middle map is Austin, where I live now. Everybody’s moving here. It looks like a black hole.
The bottom map is Pickaway County, Ohio, where I grew up. Hardly anyone leaves. Hardly anyone moves in. It looks like a puddle.
Everyone go play with this. It’s super fun.
Maybe I should just be a demographer with my Sociology degree.
And I want to meet the 31 people who moved from Orange County, CA to PG County so I know that I am not alone
