Relocation

I have fully accepted that I was not born to understand everything, but I'm mystified about why there is a provable trend of people fleeing Florida for rural Missouri. There's real science and data to prove this is happening.

Perhaps desperation is the wrong word to use to describe what one Illinois town will do to motivate you to move there and work. There's no mistaking the fact that they're offering a lot to whoever is willing to call their part of the Land of Lincoln home.

Numbers are not my specialty, but it doesn't take a math genius to be completely befuddled about the sheer number of workers that have left the state of Illinois in just 4 short years. It's really remarkable by just about any measure.

I realize that I'm not meant to understand everything in life and this is a great example. Why are so many Colorado people suddenly moving to Missouri? I have data to prove it's happening and I'm mystified as to why.

If you thought you were seeing a lot more California license plates on moving trucks entering Illinois, just wait. Thanks to a new change to how electric bills are figured in California, the exodus from the Golden State to the Land of Lincoln will only increase more.

The internet loves to tell you the most popular places that people move to and I understand that. I'd like to share the opposite with you. It's the only state in America that no one in Missouri moved to last year and it's not Hawaii or Alaska in case you're wondering.

The title alone will make my Missouri family and my Iowa friends spit water out of their noses. But, I'm not actually joking about some very legitimate reasons why a sensible Missouri person might actually want to consider moving to Iowa. Really.

I suspected this was happening, but now I can prove it with science. Illinois is under an invasion from the east. Probably a zillion Hoosiers are choosing to call the Land of Lincoln home and that's only a slight exaggeration.

I know that there are certain things in life that I'm not meant to understand. The River Dance is one example. Why was that so popular? I don't get it. I also don't understand why suddenly so many in Illinois are moving to Tennessee?

I understand why so many people think they need to move to Florida, but I'm shocked that so many in Missouri actually did it. The numbers show more than 10,000 in just one year chose to depart Missouri and head to the Sunshine State which begs the question why.