Comment by UncleOxidant

> In 1970, one in five Americans was moving every year. It's now down to one in 13.

When I was a kid (in the late 60s and through the 70s) we moved every two or three years on average. And these weren't just the move across town kinds of moves - a lot of them were half way across the country. When I was 1 we moved from Seattle to the TX gulf coast because my dad wanted to live somewhere warm and sunny. Then to SoCal then back to TX then back to SoCal and again back to TX and then to the Oregon coast. I was thinking the other day that people don't move like that anymore - in most of those moves my parents didn't have work lined up, they just moved and found work. When I was about 12 we moved from TX to the Oregon Coast because my parents were missing the PNW - my dad had just gotten his teaching degree and he figured he'd just move up to Oregon and find a teaching gig, which turned out to be quite hard in the mid-70s. Basically, he sent out a bunch or resumes to Oregon school districts just prior to leaving. They had subscribed to a newspaper from the town they wanted to move to and then signed up for a rental house sight unseen (that was the return address for all of those resumes). We pulled into town with a U-Haul and TX plates and within about 15 minutes 3 different people screamed at us to go back to where we came from (ahh, Oregon in the 70s). I don't think people make a move like that nowadays. I thought it was fairly normal then, but there's no way I'd do that now and in fact we haven't moved in 15 years and that was just a move a few miles away.