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Trajikbpm t1_j8nwrvm wrote

Reply to comment by Vermonter_Here in How Vermont’s Housing Crisis Got So Bad by punkthesystem

That article was posted awhile back and its useless. It ls based on people using a moving company. I'm not denying people are rushing here in droves but Here's another

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Vermonter_Here t1_j8nzlqq wrote

The one you linked used absolute number of people, not people per capita. The result is that it's essentially a list of states according to their population size, split into states with net population loss and gain. That's why the top four "loss" states are 4/6 of the largest-population states, and the top two "gain" states are the remaining 2/6.

The article I linked is one month old, and is an analysis of the entire previous year. It also normalizes the data per-capita, rather than just giving absolute numbers.

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Vermontess t1_j8r34uj wrote

The source you cited also ranks VT as the 30th in the nation by uhaul movers. Its garbage data as stated elsewhere.

https://vermontbiz.com/news/2023/january/04/vermont-falls-30th-u-haul-rank-moving-destinations

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Vermonter_Here t1_j96nooc wrote

I've seen that study, too. As the article mentions, it's possible the discrepancy is a result of demographics--i.e., people who can't afford to hire movers are more likely to rent a uhaul, which means the uhaul data will be weighted more heavily in favor of states that people with less money are likely to move to.

Unfortunately, all this data is proprietary, either owned by uhaul, or united van lines. I'm not aware of any independent researchers gathering broad, normalized market data on this. I'd be very interested to see it, if it's out there.

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