Running From California Government

Katy Grimes: More 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.

Here is a fascinating interactive map from Forbes Online that shows the astounding movement out of California, regardless of what the state’s politicians say.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html

Isn’t it amazing that according to the IRS,  no one is moving from Idaho or Texas to California.  But click the big government cities like Sacramento, Los Angeles or even Seattle, and it’s as though someone spilled red ink on the map.

Source: Internal Revenue Service data. The IRS only reports inter-county moves for more than 10 people, so some moves are not shown on this map