Read previewCaroline, 29, was tired of making $40,000 a year as an academic librarian in a suburb of Atlanta.
The people are younger and quieter in Bremerton, the Seattle suburb in which she lives with her husband, and the weather is an improvement, she said.
Nearly 5,600 made the move from Georgia to Washington, a particularly popular destination for California movers.
Both Caroline and her husband landed union jobs, which she said were very rare in her part of Georgia.
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