New data shows who's moving out of Mass.

[@Joseph-ly7sb]

Leaving Boston after growing up there, was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

[@Demy1970]

I love it, they talk about finding new tax revenue but never talk about cutting spending. That’s the problem

[@billmoore7305]

Exactly, the clown being interviewed doesn't have a clue.

[@wandavazquez6320]

Rents are too damn HIGH!

[@peterdangelo5882]

I left in 2004, never looked back. The tax everything, overly expensive state. I knew my kids were never going to make it there when they grew up. Much happier in the Midwest.

[@scottmic3556]

regular people are leaving

[@LL-bl8hd]

Our politicians are totally ignoring this problem. We're losing our next generation as they move to other states. Our states budgets are going to be in shambles if our most productive citizens keep moving out. Meanwhile somehow housing just gets more and more expensive even with so many people moving. It's crazy!

[@ronnestman4696]

Why does he say the Governor needs to find ways to get tax revenue from fewer citizens? Why can’t they cut spending and clean up their wasteful ways? Pfft!!

[@sugarpuddin]

I voted with my feet and left the USA for good. Best decision of my life!

[@michaelwells7348]

Hope Iran is Treating U well, watch out for snakes in Ur slippers in the Morning....

[@NoreenChase]

You can add my name to this list. I just moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

[@8799crosby]

me to 6 months ago ,much less traffic

[@mypeeps333]

NH isent much better !

[@rencleavus5213]

Just don't vote like you still live there.

[@mike-uw6wt]

NH sucks.

[@mike-uw6wt]

@@rwh5350 yes.

[@leemiks]

If the tax revenue is decreasing due to people leaving maybe it's time to downsize the gov't. How come that's never discussed? Raising taxes is just going to make more people and businesses leave making your problem worse.

[@user-oq8hm2zw7c]

My father said two things about running a business. Never in a cold climate like the northeast, it affects foot traffic and never in a blue state like Massachusetts. They will tax you to death.

[@John-iq7ry]

I'm not necessarily saying he's wrong. But FWIW, I noticed the turnover on businesses was high as hell in Florida. You'd see a business come in, go out of business within months, then another business would come in and the cycle would repeat. I know some people who prefer living in MA over FL even though the taxes are higher, because jobs have higher salaries and more benefits.

[@bendrixbailey1430]

As a productive entrepreneur who has started 3 companies in MA and employed hundreds, I’m finding the regulatory environment burdensome. The reason its so expensive to build in MA has little to do with material inflation, and much to do with masses of regulation that increase the cost of construction. Special interest groups lobby the legislature to pass regulations requiring expensive additions to buildings, supplied by the lobbying groups. Now MA is pushing up income taxes under the very foolish lie that the productive earners don’t pay their share.

[@thinkingitthrough8368]

Owning a company in MA for nearly a decade, I came away with two things. 1. The government workers who can't count seem to flock to the DOR. The ones that can count I suspect they put at the lottery. 2. The unemployment laws are so lax that I used to joke with the wife that if one of the employees killed me, the employee who did the deed would go to Unemployment and tell them the company closed because the owner died, get unemployment, and they would find nothing wrong with sending the checks to the prison. It's that absurd.

[@atenrok]

Am I the only one finding it rather weird, that productive successful entrepreneurs, employing hundreds, have nothing better to do than ranting in comments on KZbin?

[@thinkingitthrough8368]

@@atenrok No, you're right. Sitting in front of a computer on a Saturday, or the 6th day this week I worked, I should just stick to business stuff and take no breaks.

[@bendrixbailey1430]

@@atenrok What, you dip-wad? My name is in my profile and you can learn about me with a simple search. You on the other hand are a nameless, anonymous nothing. Yeah, productive people do watch news and respond to it. Idiot.

[@drlongus8321]

Come on down south where you can thrive....I left NJ and don't regret it

[@air-1579]

Another Liberal Success

[@hierophant369]

That's right!😊

[@mike-uw6wt]

Feel free to move to Mississippi lol

[@rencleavus5213]

@@mike-uw6wt Better than the lib cesspool of MA.

[@air-1579]

@@mike-uw6wt It is a much better quality of life than MA

[@mike-uw6wt]

@@air-1579 then move there. MA doesn’t need you.

[@Dontewksbury]

I left in 2021 & never looked back

[@John-iq7ry]

MA born and raised. Lived for 10+ years off and on in other states. Been back in MA for about 5 years now. Honestly looking forward to living in another state/country with warmer weather, more affordable, friendlier people, etc. Living in another state, I was able to afford to buy a home in a nice neighborhood, extensively remodel it, and when I sold it, I got a great ROI. I know I could never do that here. Everything is so expensive, especially housing. I could probably rent a mansion in certain other states for the price that I pay for a 1 bedroom here.

[@shellysmith1037]

the people who are tired of high taxes combined with high inflation.

[@richystar2001]

White Flight. Because when a state becomes a shthole...you gotta leave.

[@drlongus8321]

Yep!

[@The_10th_Man]

Yet they keep electing communists over and over again.

[@12KevinPower]

Housing Prices will not fall because landlords want to protect their investments from falling.

[@rogercarroll8764]

Please don't move to New Hampshire! Move somewhere else. The Massholes are ruining New Hampshire!

[@jimmycain8669]

The government never even consider downsizing.

[@danasmith858]

Not since Reagan

[@abdominalsnowman5848]

Vote Blue no matter who ….

[@thinkingitthrough8368]

We know who. 5 out of the last 6 Speakers of the House are either convicted Criminals or mentioned in court documents as accomplices.

[@peterdangelo5882]

Yeah right

[@julieanderson100]

I am the opposite. White gen x female with a master's degree - just moved back. I love a lot about MA. Admittedly, the rent stinks but affordable housing is becoming a huge problem in NH as well, probably in many places in the US. It's especially hard with a single income.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

West of I-128, much of Massachusetts is an economically depressed desert. Springfield, Fall River, New Bedford, Fitchburg, ...

[@JackieChet]

I moved from NYC to Boston due to crime and cost of living. Now, planning to move to New Hampshire in a few months. Same rationale

[@barsquad4444]

F L O R I D A❤

[@billkussmaul2940]

Amelia Island !

[@danasmith858]

A Haven for weirdos

[@michaelwells7348]

~ Impose a ( Tea Tax ) what could happen ??

[@estelletodman9951]

TAXACHUSETTES 😢😮

[@mypeeps333]

I have lived in Massachusetts my whole life ! I'm out of here not Jobs Taxes and ILEGAL immigrants.

[@greggmitchell4173]

Same as CT

[@katiejohnson6574]

🔆Florida🔆

[@johnmadow5331]

I used to worked in Waltham, MA and owned home in Fitchburg for 12 years for the largest employer during the 1983-1995 . I have very high conferdence in High education system and strong Hi tech defense job related skills jobs that MA can offer . I paid taxes and sacrifice but I was the 1st group to be selected for laid off and blacklisted for employment. I left the state after being left behind with high debt with no income and no opportunity for two years. I paid $500.00 state taxes on my last saving while I was on the street way back in 1995 and forced to give up my property to the criminal that keep attacking me until I left.

[@davidb5889]

Don't worry Massachusetts...migrants are moving in, they will pick up the slack. Hahahaha!

[@jtpalooki7757]

Massachusetts was famously founded by migrants 500 years ago! Don’t understand where you find humor in this story!

[@scottmic3556]

@@jtpalooki7757 WRONG , there were Not migrants , and besides were talking about TODAY -catch up

[@jtpalooki7757]

@@scottmic3556 dinasours roamed the planet for millions of years.. 500 years ago is like considered today! And if you are referring to the southern border, most of those people’s ancestors were already here! Again who are the migrants in this country?

[@jtpalooki7757]

@@rwh5350 which home are you you referring, I have several? Go to be specific if not facetious.

[@jtpalooki7757]

@@rwh5350 I’m well off, cuz’ I worry about me and not some boogeyman! There are plenty of illegals around where I live.. along with plenty of work that needs to get done! But only you have a problem with who does the work!.. I support the REPUBLICAN border bill that Trump squashed.. do You?

[@atenrok]

2023? Is this a repost?

[@okenwa1983]

2023 is the last full, completed year/data

[@beantownwelder8132]

White flight

[@samreynolds3789]

Nope ! NON Caucasians leaving too!

[@gengrant5291]

Good. Natives understand that

[@drlongus8321]

​@gengrant5291 and it will turn into garbage

[@WD-41469]

Right. Nothing to do with who is moving “in”.

[@iginbltn3859]

Do people still think they can catch covid from a bed like those two people did?

[@donaldodonaldo1242]

HUH, what governor?

[@CalebReddick-r8o]

40 seconds in …. Jake Paul… the college kid is trolling him😂

[@buckiemohawk3643]

well when u tax supposedly millionaires and tax the rich all the people leave

[@chatgpt-n8r]

doesn't it ever dawn on anyone that people who can't afford to live here all have high paying jobs but the people that say here don't even work?

[@pat2row]

I left in 1971 just like Matthew Perry. Taxes were high even back the. Dave Portnoy can’t even afford it.

[@klom2441]

what does this person mean 'less hostile' ? what winter ?

[@sharon-o7v]

So sad

[@IMagnus123123123]

no real information

[@The_10th_Man]

Well yeah it’s NBC

[@vmobile890]

California gained 20 million from 1970 nice if 20 million could be happier in areas of lower cost .

[@drlongus8321]

Now they can't keep people

[@cloviswater4870]

Just ask Jake Paul ?? 😂😂

[@AnythingJW]

true that high and middle income white folks are moving to Florida or Texas for retirement for tax and weather reason

[@preshisify1]

😷☕🇺🇲

[@jacksongreen611]

Just stay north of the mason dixon

[@michaelwells7348]

~ The Weatha. is Freakn. Horrible ~ Get Outa. the Showaa. in the Summaa. & U Staat. freakin Sweattin. ~ ~ Go inta. Ur Caa. in the Wintaa. & Shivaa. for the first 5 minutes ~ Screw that ... I moved to California....