U-Haul offers an annual summary of its activity each year, and in the early 2023
report for the year 2022, California and Illinois were numbers 1 and 2 for outbound truck rentals. Texas, Florida, and South Carolina were numbers 1, 2, and 3 destination states.
The flipside to the growth for Texas is that almost all of the newcomers are going to the largest urban areas...not to buy 50 acres and retire on a small Hill Country ranch. That's making housing harder to find. A friend of mine works at a mid-size company that had a growth spurt early this year and hired a few dozen people. Ones coming in from out of town mostly reported having trouble finding any available apartments.
And I keep wondering where the millions of illegals have gone. Sanctuary city New York screams about a fiscal crises over fewer than 50,000 migrants. Not counting all the got-aways, the CBO reports 2,578,944 southwest border encounters in FY 2022, and 1,789,605 so far this year. That makes New York's 50K equal 1.14% of the total...again not counting the tens of thousands of got-aways. Where are all these people? I have to believe that Texas has kept the majority of them. We know they ain't at Martha's Vineyard...
