by Calculated Risk on 11/07/2005 12:58:00 AM

My most recent post is up on Angry Bear: Will Boston Lead the Housing Bust?

Also, one of my friends is leaving California to take a job in Indiana. He currently lives in the Inland Empire and had a choice of living in Orange County or Indiana. The price of housing was the determining factor.

Apparently this is becoming more common - from the NY Times: Saying Goodbye California Sun, Hello Midwest

A growing number of people are leaving California after a decade of soaring home prices, according to separate data from the Census Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service and the state's finance department.

Last year, a half million people left California for other parts of the United States, while fewer than 400,000 Americans moved there. The net outflow has risen fivefold, to more than 100,000, since 2001, an analysis by Economy.com, a research company, shows, although immigration from other countries and births have kept the state's population growing.

The number of people leaving Boston, New York and Washington is also rising, and skyrocketing house prices appear to be a major reason, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com. From New York, the net migration to Philadelphia more than doubled between 2001 and 2004, with 11,500 more people leaving New York for Philadelphia last year than vice versa. The number of New Yorkers who have moved to Albany, Charlotte, N.C., and Allentown, Pa., among other places, has also increased sharply.