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Interestingly enough, That list of states besides Colorado and Maine all were the biggest losers of population in 2023, meaning people are leaving these states.

  - California -0.9
  - Maryland -0.5
  - Massachusetts -0.6
  - New Jersey -0.5
  - New York -1.1
  - Oregon -0.1
  - Rhode Island -0.3

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Largely because that's the list of places where housing is super expensive:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_median_home_price

  #2 California    $554K
  #3 Massachusetts $422K
  #5 Colorado.     $397K
  #6 Oregon        $361K
  #8 New Jersey    $335K
  #9 New York      $322K
  #10 Maryland     $308K
  #13 Rhode Island $300K
  #25 Maine        $242K

And where income is highest:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_income

  #1  Maryland      $90K
  #2  Massachusetts $89K
  #3  New Jersey    $89K
  #5  California    $85K
  #9  Colorado      $82K
  #14 New York      $74K
  #15 Rhode Island  $74K
  #18 Oregon        $71K
  #32 Maine         $64K

People are moving out because it's desirable to live there and hence there's a lot of competition for housing. If you're not one of the top earners in the state, you can increase your relative standard of living by moving somewhere where it's cheaper.

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"

They are also rich states that are pricing out people rather than building housing.

60 million people live in California and NY.

9 million in NJ

4.2 million in Oregon

7 million in Massachusetts

6 million in Maryland

1 million in Rhode Island

What are the units?

It would appear to be percentage of population.

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