Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Whose moving and whose not! Traveling Americans

Traveling Americans...

With the poor economy, and falling house prices fewer Americans are moving - as reported by the US Census Bureau. Some 35.2 million Americans changed residences from March 2007 to March 2008 - the lowest since 1962 (especially disturbing given the fact the country had 120 fewer people. On the other hand, Alaskans are on the move. Alaska has voted to relocate new homes nine miles inland. Due to global warming and flooding the costal village of Newtok is the first of scores of threatened Alaskan communities to be moving to higher ground.

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