According to our annual moving survey, 1 in 4 movers want to move to a friendly suburb. But which are the best suburbs to live in America? We examined search data from moveBuddha’s Moving Cost Calculator to identify which suburbs Americans deem “best,” one for every state. We based this on which suburbs have the highest […]
Using search data from the moveBuddha Moving Cost Calculator, we analyzed searches from July 2025 through the end of January 2026 to identify the top city in each state Americans want to move to this year. While not every search turns into a move, search behavior offers an early signal of where interest is building. […]
Election-year excitement runs high in swing states like Pennsylvania, which has already commanded an outsized slice of each candidate’s attention. By mid-July, Donald Trump visited the state 6 times, while Kamala Harris has recently launched a tour through the battleground state. This presidential election, Democrats are largely relying on young voters to turn out in […]
The future of America may lie in Texas. Based on current migration trends, moveBuddha predicts that by 2100, Dallas, Houston, and Austin will replace NYC, LA, and Chicago as the country’s most populous cities. Metro Area Year 2100 Rank 2100 Population Current Rank Current Population Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 1 33.91M 4 7.7M Houston, TX 2 […]
In practically every corner of the United States, there lives a pocket of Irish culture, whether it be locals of Irish ancestry or a pub named O’Connor’s. In fact, nearly 10% of Americans identify as Irish, including U.S. President Joe Biden. (Finnegan is his mother’s maiden name.) If we look back into American history, the […]
Every month, we pull the freshest data from the moveBuddha Moving Cost Calculator to gain real-time insights into U.S. migration trends. Here, we rank the 150 most-populous U.S. cities by their in-to-out move ratio, a metric that compares the volume of users interested in moving to each city with the volume of users interested in […]
With the nation’s largest population losses, Californians are moving to states with lower taxes and higher affordability. Which California metros are fueling the exodus and where are movers going?
Historical Wild West, the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, spiritual Sedona — Arizona has it all. Since the advent of air conditioning, the state’s affordable living costs and temperate winters have attracted snowbirds and retirees. Today, across the dense urban areas, there’s been a boom of new residents across all demographics and a number of businesses moving in making it one of the most popular sunbelt moving destinations in the nation.
Americans have been moving to the Sunshine State in droves over the past few years. Retirees and a new generation of tech workers are diversifying the land that was once primarily alligators and citrus groves. We wanted to know which states are fueling the growth, and which cities are seeing surges of new resident growth?
