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☆ A California native recently moved to a Kentucky city with 26,000 residents. She's able to live a much more fulfilling life closer to family at a much lower cost.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A Gen Xer moved from California to a small city in Kentucky in 2021. Duvall moved in 2021 from San Marcos, her city of 100,000 in California, to Paducah, Kentucky, a small city with around 26,000 residents. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I have no plans on ever going back to California ," Duvall said. Of that total, just under 6,000 moved from California to Kentucky, compared to over 22,500 in neighboring Tennessee. Still, Duvall said in her small city, she's gotten better care for her medical problems, as she's gotten more individualized, thorough attention.

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☆ Mississippi Sheriff Whose Deputies Tortured Black People Is Reelected
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey won reelection after running unopposed. Bailey refused to resign after five Rankin sheriff's deputies were convicted of torturing Black men. Those deputies called themselves the "Goon Squad" for their willingness to use excessive force. Rankin County, home to several Jackson suburbs, is the largest county in Mississippi, with a population of almost 160,000, according to the US Census. Five were deputies for the Rankin County Sheriff's Office, and one was an officer for the Richland Police Department.

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☆ How Democrat Brandon Presley could win the Mississippi governor's race and pull off one of the biggest political upsets of 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Democratic nominee Brandon Presley has made the Mississippi gubernatorial contest a real race. While most voters in Mississippi may not care for national Democrats (including some Democrats), Presley has effectively presented himself as a different kind of Democrat. Black voters made up 29% of the statewide electorate that year and Biden won their vote 94%-5% over Trump. Presley has heavily courted Black voters, which has included visits to churches and the state's Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). AdvertisementAdvertisementStructural geographic disadvantages remain a lingering issue for Mississippi Democrats, but Presley has a real chance at overcoming that dynamic on Tuesday.

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☆ How a Republican victory in Virginia could lead to abortion restrictions in every Southern state
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Christopher Hickey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

On Tuesday, Virginia voters will decide who will control the state legislature, which is currently divided between Republicans and Democrats each controlling one chamber. Outlawing abortion at 15 weeks or earlier would mean residents of southern states seeking the procedure after this point would be funneled into clinics in states even further away. Bans or restrictions in all the southern states would also mean denying or restricting access to more than 110 million Americans, or one third of the entire country’s population, and seven of the 10 fastest-growing cities. CNN defines southern states here as the states that seceded during the Civil War, which while a popular definition is not how the US Census defines the South. Democrats, who previously controlled both the legislature and governorship, were left with a 22-17 majority in the State Senate.

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☆ A boomer who moved from California to Tennessee said the slower pace of life and lower cost of living are big pluses
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A boomer recently moved from San Diego to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for a lower cost of living. The semi-retired business owner said he's house hunting for homes that cost half as much as in San Diego. Murfreesboro, a city in the center of the state a one-hour drive from Nashville, may not have all the skyscrapers and tech headquarters of San Diego. He said he's found a vibrant business community in Tennessee with a slower pace of life and a lower cost of living. He's also had to sacrifice the consistently warm weather in San Diego for the warmer summers and colder winters of Tennessee.

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☆ Universal basic income is working — even in red states
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Michael Venutolo-Mantovani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

He encourages skeptical taxpayers to look at universal basic income from the same "selfish point of view." Among those who received a basic income in Stockton, California, the unemployment rate dropped by nearly 50%. With more data at hand than theoretical projection, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal basic income is working nearly universally. Promising as these pilot programs are, the chances of a truly universal basic income in America remain remote. As for Tydricka Lewis, basic income afforded her the latitude to start her own nonprofit.

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☆ A Gen Xer moved to North Carolina to save money for retirement. Her beachfront home cost about half as much as her California property, but the weather doesn't compare.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Sandra, a Gen Xer, recently moved from the Los Angeles area to the beaches of North Carolina. While the weather isn't as ideal, North Carolina has been a pleasant surprise. AdvertisementAdvertisementSandra decided that instead of retirement by the beaches of Los Angeles, she'd instead enjoy life by the North Carolina shore. Even though she said insurance is a bit higher in North Carolina given the prevalence of hurricanes, her taxes have been cut by around half. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe more diverse politics of her area — since North Carolina is a purple state — was also a plus over deep red South Carolina, she said.

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☆ Gen Zalpha doesn't really care for sex on TV — they're here for 'nomance' and on-screen friendships
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Teens and young adults are over romance and sex in TV shows and movies, per a new survey. 51.5% of those surveyed want to see more "nomance," or content based on friendships and platonic relationships. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAdvertisementTeens and young adults are over romance and sex in TV shows and movies — what they really want to see on screen is a lot more "nomance." And younger people are also having less sex than their parents did at their age, per UCLA's California health interview survey.

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☆ People are fleeing California and New York. Here's where they're moving.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementOver 8.2 million Americans moved to a different state between 2021 and 2022, 100,000 of whom moved from California to Texas. New US Census migration data reveals thousands of Americans are leaving California and New York in favor of Florida and Texas. The California to Texas move remained high for 2021-2022, but on the flip side, only 42,000 Texas residents moved to California. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs New York City become more expensive and elusive, Jersey City has attracted thousands of New Yorkers into new housing developments. Many moved to communities with easy access to New York City without paying city prices — and many have stayed remote.

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☆ Californians are fleeing amid sky-high housing costs. Here are the top 10 states they're flocking to.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Over 102,000 people left California for Texas during this period, many citing the state's lower housing costs are reasons for making the move. This has forced many California residents to spend a significant portion of their income on housing, cutting away at their savings. Another 74,100 left California for Arizona, in contrast to 27,400 Arizona residents who moved to California. Many are likely moving to Arizona for the state's lower cost of living, lower taxes, and employment opportunities in sectors like semiconductor manufacturing. Over 50,700 former California residents made the move cross-country to Florida — and over 28,500 vice versa.

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☆ Wall Street and money moved into South Florida, driving up prices. Now some residents want to move out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

They're looking to nearby smaller cities in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. They're picking places like Knoxville, Tennessee; Greenville, South Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; and Asheville, North Carolina; which she collectively refers to as "the Villes." AdvertisementAdvertisementWhy CEOs moved their lives — and their businesses — to FloridaWall Street moved to South Florida in droves in 2020 and 2021. Billionaire hedge-fund CEOs — like Citadel's Ken Griffin — paid record-shattering amounts for South Florida homes , added offices, and moved their businesses there entirely from New York, Chicago, and Silicon Valley. They bought a 2,400-square-foot, four-bedroom home on an acre of land for the same price in Greenville, South Carolina.

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☆ It may be a lot cheaper to heat your home this winter
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementMany Americans may be paying a lot less to heat their homes this winter. Last winter, residential retail natural gas prices exceeded those of the previous 10 winters, the EIA said. And in the Northeast, which historically has had higher natural gas bills, the average household with natural gas heating is expected to pay $761, in contrast to $924 last winter. AdvertisementAdvertisementStill, the EIA predicts in its Winter Fuels Outlook that winter heating prices on the whole may remain relatively flat. The Wall Street Journal notes spending on heating oil could increase inflation in the Northeast and take a toll on low-income residents.

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☆ Why the housing market is going from tough to terrible
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Anna Bahney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The current housing market offers a crushing affordability picture for would-be-homebuyers and is keeping many out of the market. The monthly payment on an average-priced home now requires 40% of the median household income, making housing the least affordable it’s been since 1984, according to ICE. “Longer term Treasury yields — which mortgage rates tend to follow — depend on expected economic growth and inflation expectations,” said Orphe Divounguy, senior economist at Zillow. The median household income was $74,580 in 2022, according to the US Census Bureau. “Good news in the economy causes rates to stay higher for longer — but the longer rates are higher, the more likely something in the market goes ‘boom.’”

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☆ Poverty is rising faster in American suburbs as lower-income people are pushed out of big cities
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The rate of suburban poverty rose three times faster than urban poverty between 2019 and 2022. The skyrocketing cost of housing in major cities is one factor pushing lower-income people out of cities. But the pandemic has accelerated the trend of suburban poverty rising at a faster rate than urban poverty, according to new US Census data. While the rate of poverty is rising faster in suburbs than in cities overall, cities still have a higher per capita poverty rate on average. In 2022, 9.6% of suburban dwellers lived in poverty, while 16.2% of residents of major cities were poor, Brookings noted.

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☆ US adults living alone may face higher risk of cancer death, study suggests
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In comparison, among 358,876 adults who lived with others, a much smaller share — 1.6% — died of cancer in the study. “We found that working adults living alone had a 1.32 times higher risk of cancer death than adults living with others,” said Dr. Farhad Islami, an author of the study and senior scientific director of cancer disparity research at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta. That suggests that adults living alone have about a 32% higher risk of cancer death. Compared with adults living with others, adults living alone were more likely to have fair or poor self-reported health status, activity limitation, serious psychological distress, severe obesity, smoke cigarettes, or consume alcohol, according to the study. So, those who live alone may be vulnerable to social isolation,” Milbury said in the email.

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“When I spoke to them … they were basically saying, ‘We think this is it, we will not survive this one,’” he said. “When this individual said, ‘You Muslims must die,’ this was a message not to the boy and the mother. Last weekend, as Israel continued to bombard Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas attack, activists staged pro-Palestine rallies in New York City’s Times Square and in cities across the country. Many Muslim or Arab leaders say they feel compelled to speak out against the climate of Islamophobia to stem further violence. “Anxiety and fear are high.”Sarsour said a unified message from US officials would help address Islamophobia at home.

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☆ The top 10 states people are flocking to
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Midwestern and southern states with smaller populations are attracting more residents. Now, people are going even farther outside of the suburbs, particularly to rural states like Idaho and Montana , a new report says. All 10 states on the list have populations under 8 million, according to Census estimates for 2022. That is really driving a lot of what we see in a lot of these less dense areas around the states." AdvertisementAdvertisementHere are the 10 states that are leading the rankings in net migration, according to StorageCafe.

Persons: —, Doug Ressler, Ressler Organizations: Service Locations: Idaho, Montana, South, Midwest, Montana , Idaho, Vermont, Montana , Vermont

☆ Free daycare for teachers' kids could help fix the crisis for all parents
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The US is in a childcare crisis due to cost and lack of available teachers. The state now gives free tuition to the children of childcare teachers. However, one potential solution appears to be working, but only if governments are willing to step in and help. AdvertisementAdvertisementNPR found one example of a center offering free tuition to employees without state assistance in West Virginia. Many childcare centers may be forced to close.

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CNN —Target is closing nine stores in four metropolitan areas: the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, Seattle, and New York. Here are four charts showing what retailers are facing in those areas where Target is closing stores. The six counties where Target is closing stores saw exoduses in high earners larger than the average for similar counties. Census data also shows that the six counties where Target is closing stores had a higher percentage of remote workers compared to their states as a whole. In the markets where Target is closing stores, the shortages persist.

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☆ Bad news, homeowners: 1 of these 3 things needs to happen for house prices to be considered affordable, says a real estate expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Andy Walden of ICE Mortgage Technology told CNBC there are 3 key ways to make US home prices affordable. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe US housing market is getting so expensive that it will take a lot for prices to be considered affordable. "Those are massive movements that we're talking about," Walden told CNBC. he told CNBC. If not, you're going to just see this stalemate play out in the market," Walden added.

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☆ Ski towns in the American West are getting swankier — and pricing out frustrated locals
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Driggs, Idaho, is the latest western mountain town to grapple with an surge of outsider money. AdvertisementAdvertisementChristina Assante bought a half-acre lot in Driggs, a ski town on the border of Wyoming, for $500,000 in 2021. Assante, and her son, Asher, are a part of a growing population setting course for the burgeoning ski town that was once overshadowed by its trendy neighbor Jackson, Wyoming. AdvertisementAdvertisementAn uncharted ski town in Idaho is ready to explodeIn Driggs, the town's expansion trajectory hangs in the balance as a, more literal, expansion is being organized. Locals are being pushed further outside of this Colorado ski townVail, Colorado, an expensive ski town a little less than 100 miles outside of Denver, could be viewed as a cautionary tale for Driggs and other budding ski towns.

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☆ There's one 'lucky' group of homeowners in America's housing market, says a Zillow economist
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

US homeowners who are downsizing now are "lucky," Skylar Olsen, Zillow's chief economist told MarketWatch. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . For context, the value of the US housing market has surged about 50% from the pre-pandemic days in January 2020 to nearly $52 trillion now, according to a Tuesday report from Zillow. California is currently the US' most valuable housing market, per Zillow. The state's housing market is now worth over $10 trillion — nearly 20% of the national total.

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☆ Only 0.2% of Ukraine's landmass has changed hands in 2023, report says, despite thousands dead and billions of dollars spent
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Less than 500 square miles of Ukrainian land has changed hands this year, per a New York Times analysis. AdvertisementAdvertisementOnly 0.2% of Ukraine's landmass has changed hands this year, according to an analysis by The New York Times, based on data from the Institute for the Study of War. 188 square miles is about the size of Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest city, which has a total area of 189.5 square miles, according to the US Census Bureau. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn contrast, Ukraine has a total landmass of about 233,030 square miles. The report shows Russia capturing about 100 square miles per month earlier this year, coinciding with its winter offensive campaign to capture the eastern Donbas region.

Persons: —, Marina Miron Organizations: New York Times, Russia, Service, The New York Times, Institute for, Census, US, Kiel Institute, King's College London, Times Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Albuquerque , New

☆ 5 critical steps entrepreneurs can't afford to skip when starting a business
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Spectrum Business With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Social media is a great tool for promotion, but it's also handy for collecting insights about what customers want. Build a social media presence for the new business and use it as a way to gather feedback. Social media is a great tool for promotion, but it's also handy for collecting insights about what customers want. Build a social media presence for the new business and use it as a way to gather feedback. Attract the first customers to your business with smart, small-business marketing strategiesAttracting and retaining the right customers is critical to small business success.

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☆ More young people are getting Costco memberships, but they're not spending as much as boomers or Gen X
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

More young people are getting Costco memberships, CEO Craig Jelinek told CNBC. Younger shoppers have a different purchasing power to baby boomers and Gen X, Jelinek said. AdvertisementAdvertisementMore young people are buying Costco memberships, but they're not buying as much as older generations, the retailer's CEO says. "We're seeing more younger people sign up, absolutely," Craig Jelinek told CNBC's Jim Cramer. They're slightly going up as they become longer members, but initially the purchasing power from the younger generation compared to the boomers or X is a little bit different in what they're buying."

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