ric27
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It is all about the comparisons. You could move from some state with a high cost of living to TX, where the cost of living is real low. If you are making minimum wage or just around minimum wage in both places but you can actually afford decent housing and to eat in TX but not whatever state you were living in, then it is worth it to move to TX. Plus, if you live in a state where you can't find a job, but there is some job opening for what you know how to do in TX, then why not move to TX.
Then, you have to figure that some people are sort of moved there without much choice. One good example, since we are talking about TX, is military spouses. Military spouses usually go where their spouse gets stationed. It is quite possible that they had a decent job whereever they were, but, considering the benefits from the military, many spouses give up okay paying jobs for minimum wage or just above minimum wage jobs to be with their spouse. This would also apply to others outside of the military who move to TX for their job but the spouse can't find a job/decent job when the family gets there.
Another thing that could affect the numbers is people simply taking chances and those chances going south, but they can't really afford to move back. This actually happened to my family when I was 17. My mother got a job in SC, we bought a home and moved, and then my mother lost her job because of some stupid rule they had about bank accounts (they told her she had to get a checking account for her direct deposit at a specific bank after she started working there). She lost her job and we were living off my father's WalMart paycheck at least til I went into the Navy.
The political climate is also a factor...
Take for instance.... Oregon. The last couple of years has turned a hard left in politics. Everybody and their retarded ****ing socialist gay bro is moving there from Kalifornia. As a result, property values and cost of living are going through the roof while the wages are stagnating because Oregon is inexplicably hostile to industry. No matter where you are in the state, the left wing politics in Portland decide your fate.
The move towards a conservative state helps in that regard.