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4 minutes ago, Johnny Dinar said:

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed during a briefing Friday that President Donald Trump was never given an orderly transition of power.”

A video going viral on Twitter proves otherwise.

The NowThis clip begins with McEnany making her latest baseless claim.

It then cuts to footage of Trump, during his inauguration in January 2017, actually thanking former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama “for their gracious aid throughout this transition.”

“They have been magnificent,” Trump declares.

The video later contrasts how the Obama administration sought to facilitate the transfer of power to Trump with Trump’s ongoing and increasingly unhinged attempts at stealing the election from President-elect Joe Biden.

Check out the video here:

A shorter version of the video has garnered more than 1.6 million views on Twitter.

 

 

Kayleigh McEnany’s Latest Trump Lie Is Firmly Debunked In Viral Video (yahoo.com)

 

Remember why are you are on Moderator Preview, you're getting lazy because I'm approving your posts.

 

Lee Moran
·Reporter, HuffPost
Sat, November 21, 2020, 1:48 AM CST·1 min read
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5 minutes ago, Johnny Dinar said:

 

Mark, I really do not trust people on either side when it is twitter or youtube. There have been far too many videos and tweets debunked to give them any credence. JMHO

 

So you don't trust any videos from those two platforms?   I'm not asking you to believe what you are hearing, you have a brain use it to decide if what that is being presented has merit, and then make your own decision. 

 

Actually watch the video I posted of Joe Pags and Dinesh D'Souza's wife.

 

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2 minutes ago, bigwave said:

Dominion REFUSED to Testify Before PA House Committee Today — Lawyered Up Instead:

 

 

Interesting, I enjoyed watching it. People talk about all the people moving out of the cities. There has a been a huge number of people leaving cities and states like California. Look at how many people moved to Arizona. Just because they moved doesn't mean they changed the way they vote. Georgia is a great example. North of Atlanta the suburbs have exploded with new residents in the last decade. These are counties that have always been rural and conservative. Now that people moved from Atlanta to those rural counties the numbers have changed in a big way. Trump was in Rome GA a day or two before the election, a rural county, but he barely won there. Why? because all those new residents came from Atlanta and they changed the demographic. As the older GOP base ages out and passes on, the other side is making gains. Between the November election and the December 7th deadline to register in Georgia to vote for the runoff, 12,000 people turn 18 and can vote. Where do you think those votes will go?

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8 minutes ago, bigwave said:

Dominion REFUSED to Testify Before PA House Committee Today — Lawyered Up Instead:

Were they read their Miranda Rights??  Seems they are taking something right out of the Trump playbook. The elements required in a list of Miranda rights include: You have the right to remain silent; Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law; You have the right to an attorney and have him present during the interrogation; If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you free of charge.  I've become familiar with those merely by watching the actions of our president....He sets such a high bar for the country. 

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43 minutes ago, adhoc10 said:

Were they read their Miranda Rights??  Seems they are taking something right out of the Trump playbook. The elements required in a list of Miranda rights include: You have the right to remain silent; Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law; You have the right to an attorney and have him present during the interrogation; If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you free of charge.  I've become familiar with those merely by watching the actions of our president....He sets such a high bar for the country. 

 

It wasn't a criminal case, it was just a hearing so they could answer questions about their voting system.  If they were afraid of incriminating themselves perhaps they should have brought their attorneys with them.  Otherwise it raises even more questions as to how suspect their software is.

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6 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

If they were afraid of incriminating themselves perhaps they should have brought their attorneys

 

Otherwise it raises even more questions

welcome to the world we have been living in for the last four years!!

 

They probably could have done better than this.....A no show would be less destructive than this   

 

Rudy Giuliani speaks to the press about various lawsuits related to the 2020 election inside the Republican National...

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1 minute ago, adhoc10 said:

welcome to the world we have been living in for the last four years!!

 

I've been here and watched what has been going on. So I take it, you are ok with Voting Machines switching votes for candidates?  Your current statement leads me to believe you are, and as long as you get your way, you don't care whether any crimes were committed because you got the result you wanted. 

 

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20 minutes ago, adhoc10 said:

welcome to the world we have been living in for the last four years!!

 

They probably could have done better than this.....A no show would be less destructive than this   

 

Rudy Giuliani speaks to the press about various lawsuits related to the 2020 election inside the Republican National...

 

12 minutes ago, adhoc10 said:

What you believe is none of my concern. Believe what works for you and makes your head a better place to live.

 

Typical leftist response, can't address the facts, not even the substance of the Mayor's claims, but instead make fun of his appearance.  Pretty sad actually.

 

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28 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

Eyewitness's and mathematics are facts with substance. 

Yes Mark,    and like I said, we all choose what we want to believe. You can get all the eyewitness accounts you want, but the scientific research  supports that those accounts are NOT ALWAYS SUBSTANSIVE OR ACCURRATE. only as what the eyewitness BELIEVES that what they saw is accurate. Hardly to be relied on as fact. You can't believe everything that someone says, even under oath, the human mind just doesn't work that way. 

 

And then there is this:" Lies, damned lies, and statistics " is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.

 
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4 hours ago, Markinsa said:

 

I've been here and watched what has been going on. So I take it, you are ok with Voting Machines switching votes for candidates?  Your current statement leads me to believe you are, and as long as you get your way, you don't care whether any crimes were committed because you got the result you wanted. 

 

Absolutely no evidence of Machines switching votes have been introduced in any court cases so far......zero! If Trump had actual proof of this it would have been in court weeks ago! It would have been uncovered in the GA hand recount. Time is about out on Trump. GA vote is certified! Trump lost GA. Michigan will be certified Monday. Show proof of switching votes or move on. Times up. Bring it or get the hell out of the way. And let transfer of power go forward.

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58 minutes ago, caddieman said:

Absolutely no evidence of Machines switching votes have been introduced in any court cases so far......zero! If Trump had actual proof of this it would have been in court weeks ago! It would have been uncovered in the GA hand recount. Time is about out on Trump. GA vote is certified! Trump lost GA. Michigan will be certified Monday. Show proof of switching votes or move on. Times up. Bring it or get the hell out of the way. And let transfer of power go forward.

PRESIDENT Trump hasn't Lost anything yet. Leglistaures havent elected their Reps for the Electoral College. The math thing is still in the works for legal action.

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13 hours ago, caddieman said:

Yep Trump is showing flaws in our system. He is calling local level canvassers and trying to get them to not certify elections in certain counties. He is also trying to get electors on the state level to go against the will of the people. And flip states in his favor. It will be up to Congress to shore up these holes so the possibility of stealing the state electoral votes can never happen again.

What country are you from? What Constitution have you been reading when you think it is up to the Federal Government to shore up the holes in our election system? In the US Constitution it is not only settled law (to use the left's language) and it is clear that each individual State's Legislature shall direct in a manner of their choosing electors for their state. Any attempt by the Federal Government or any other office, such as a Secretary of State, to change the law created by the Legislature of its state is unconstitutional. This is how the stats ran away with stealing the election. In many cases it was not the state legislature that changed the election law it was done by the SoS. To understand how this came about, you actually need to go back to Gore v Bush and look at the aftermath of what happened in the states. Yes it goes back to the hanging chad case to where we find ourselves today.  That is not conspiracy that is considered recent history. If you do not know what I am talking about then you need to research the Secretary of State Project. I know what the Secretary of State Project is. Am willing to bet most DVers probably know about it happening but never knew there was a concerted push for it and why it started. Secretary of States gets the reputation for being one of  those low hanging offices that are only important every so often and when people realize it is too late. Then they forget about it until something like this happens and speak out only to have their voices fade once a finalist is announced and forgotten about until the next election. Not only do we need to Mak America Great Again we need to weed out the chaff from the wheat.

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11 hours ago, Johnny Dinar said:

 

Interesting, I enjoyed watching it. People talk about all the people moving out of the cities. There has a been a huge number of people leaving cities and states like California. Look at how many people moved to Arizona. Just because they moved doesn't mean they changed the way they vote. Georgia is a great example. North of Atlanta the suburbs have exploded with new residents in the last decade. These are counties that have always been rural and conservative. Now that people moved from Atlanta to those rural counties the numbers have changed in a big way. Trump was in Rome GA a day or two before the election, a rural county, but he barely won there. Why? because all those new residents came from Atlanta and they changed the demographic. As the older GOP base ages out and passes on, the other side is making gains. Between the November election and the December 7th deadline to register in Georgia to vote for the runoff, 12,000 people turn 18 and can vote. Where do you think those votes will go?

The migration of peoples might have been true pre-pandemic but not so during. This map is not from some political lamestream media although it appears in in one. This map comes from Hire a Helper and United Van Lines one of the largest long distance moving haulers in the United States:

 

These drops were not spread evenly across all states: Data from moving company platform Hire A Helper found that moves decreased the least in states with no stay-at-home orders, like Nebraska (where they even increased a little, by 1.8%). But overall, almost every state saw drops, ranging from 1.3% in Arizona to 66.1% in New Hampshire.

Change In Moves

Percentage drop in moves between March 11 and June 30 compared to last year

Source: Hire A Helper

Note: States with no data have less than 100 moves recorded for 2020

 

 

United Van Lines, which focuses on long-distance hauls, also reports fewer moves during the pandemic. But both companies are seeing interest starting to rebound with gusto during the summer months. In June, United Van Lines said interest in moving was 14% higher compared to same month last year, after several months of being down.

There are caveats to these numbers, of course: They show trends only among people who used movers, and these particular moving services at that. But home sales and apartment searches have also shown similar trends.

 

Sales of existing homes have been down in 2020: In June, they were 11.3% lower than the same month last year. But that was still an increase from May, which was the weakest month of sales since October 2010. And in July, those sales hit a historic record increase.

It’s unclear so far what these increases from historic lows will mean. It’s possible that these recent sales and moves represent the pent-up demand of people who didn’t move or buy at the height of the pandemic. “It’s not unusual for [the summer] to be peak moving season,” said Igor Popov, the chief economist at Apartment List, which also saw record drops in apartment searches before they picked back up this summer. “I think it was just a little bit more intense this summer, because of the nature of the pandemic, and the nature of shelter-in-place preceding high moving months.” 

 It’s also possible that moves will continue to increase for the rest of the year. What we know so far: A mass migration hasn’t happened yet. 

Most people didn’t move for Covid-related reasons

Several surveys have found that the great majority of people who did move during the first months of the pandemic did so for reasons unrelated to the coronavirus. In one such survey of 1,300 individuals conducted by Hire A Helper, just 15% said they had relocated because of Covid-19. Out of these pandemic-induced migrations, 37% of respondents said they moved because they could not afford current housing due to a Covid-related income loss. Thirty-three percent of the respondents said that they moved to shelter in place with friends or family, and 24% that they didn’t feel safe where they were.

A Pew Research Center survey in June looked more closely at Americans who said they did make pandemic-induced moves. It found that overall, young people between the ages of 18 and 29 were moving because of Covid-19 in higher numbers, whether permanently or temporarily (college closing for in-person education might be to blame, at least partially.) Only 3% of the respondents said they had moved because of Covid-19, and 6% said someone else had moved in with them because of it.

Pandemic Moving for Young Adults

Nine percent of young adults who moved said they did so because of Covid-19

Source: Pew Research Center

 

Those who are moving aren’t trying to “flee” cities

As for the popular claim that people are “fleeing” urban areas, several recent analyses have tackled this question head-on. The conclusions from both Apartment List and fellow real estate aggregator Zillow: There is not a widespread movement of people prospecting to move out of urban areas to less dense environments.

A thorough Zillow report published in mid-August found that the share of search traffic for properties in suburban areas was slightly down compared to last year. Apartment List found similar results in a July report. Nationwide, it even found that the share of people looking to move to a higher-density city increased by a little over one percentage point, concluding that “the data show subtle regional shifts, but no overwhelming evidence of a large scale urban exodus.”

“I think there’s certainly a socioeconomic pocket that is maybe making these moves and is able to make these moves,” said Popov, of Apartment List. “But in terms of the entire rental market, when you look at the data from a bird’s-eye view, there is not this flee that people are necessarily engaged in.”

One important caveat: Both platforms looked at demand for suburban versus urban areas based on searches for homes, not actual moves. But if history is any indication, predictions of a mass urban exodus are unlikely to come true. As many scholars have noted, cities have recovered and thrived after past disease outbreaks. The 1918 Spanish flu episode in New York City had a death rate of 452 per 100,000 New Yorkers. Yet as urban scholar Richard Florida has noted in CityLab, “In the decades that bracketed that pandemic, spanning 1910 and 1930, greater New York’s population surged from 4.8 to 6.9 million.” In 1849, over 10,000 Londoners died of cholera within three months. A year later, a fire decimated the city. But “that city’s role as the world’s leading financial center of the time actually expanded in the wake of its deadly cholera epidemics,” writes Florida. 

None of this is to say that population patterns haven’t shifted in the past, and won’t again now. Look closer at particular geographic areas for a more complex picture. 

A few specific cities like San Francisco and New York City tell their own story

In a few of America's largest, densest, most expensive coastal cities — namely, San Francisco and Manhattan — several metrics do suggest that there are some changes in people’s migration patterns.

 

According to Hire a Helper’s data on its own clients, 80% more people sought help to move out of a home in San Francisco and New York City than to move in between mid-March and the end of June. United Van Lines also found more moves out of these two cities than last year. According to its data, between May and August 2020, move requests out of New York City to any destination were up 45%, and in San Francisco, up 23%, compared to the same time last year. 

But what’s just as interesting about these datasets is where the people who left were going: Among those requesting long-distance moves through United Van Lines, the company found that the top destinations for people leaving these cities were other large metropolitan areas. 

Topping the list of destinations for people leaving San Francisco between May and August 2020 were the Seattle, Austin and Chicago metropolitan areas. (For context, during the same period in 2019, the top destinations for people moving out of San Francisco were New York City, Seattle and Boston.)

Moving Out of San Francisco

 

Source: United Van Lines

Note: Numbers are interest in moving, which is the number of people requesting a quote to move out of a specific location

New Yorkers were most likely to move to the Los Angeles, Atlanta and Tampa metropolitan areas between May and August 2020. Last year, during the same period, their top destinations were Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.

Moving Out of New York City

 

Source: United Van Lines

Note: Numbers are interest in moving, which is the number of people requesting a quote to move out of a specific location

It’s important to be clear: We shouldn’t deduce from these findings that there are droves of New Yorkers migrating west to L.A., or that Seattle is the new San Francisco. (Although these two migration patterns were both trends that were happening even before the pandemic.) In fact, these top ten destinations still only make up 25% of moves out of these cities, and we still don’t have full data on where everybody went. 

What this data does suggests is that it may not be cities per se that are losing people to the pandemic. Rather, these moves vary significantly by city and region — and in many cases likely accelerate trends already in effect before the pandemic. 

“We do see a lot of city-level variation,” said Rob Warnock, research associate at Apartment List. “I think that it’s where the conversation about an urban exodus really should be lying: in this discussion about local markets and whether people are interested in staying in or leaving their local market, rather than just a huge nationwide dispersal from cities.” 

The same goes for moves within these metro areas. In New York, a recent study by Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants found that home sales in Manhattan dropped by 56% compared to last year, while they increased by 44% in suburban counties located around the city. But many experts and real estate agents have observed that this is largely the result of people (mostly white, wealthier people) who were already planning to move to the suburbs simply accelerating those plans. 

 

“In many metros what we’re seeing, and it’s early in the days that we’re seeing that, is that there are indicators of more demand for the less expensive, further out inner suburbs as opposed to the central city of metros where we’ve seen growth in jobs,” said Susan Wachter, professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “That’s what was happening even before Covid,” she said, referring to population growth rates in the suburbs and exurbs that have been speeding up over the last several years.

“We do see a lot of city-level variation. I think that it’s where the conversation about an urban exodus really should be lying.”

In San Francisco, Apartment List found that the share of users looking to move to a nearby secondary city increased by 9% compared to pre-pandemic levels. In and around the city, data on shifts in rent prices tell a very Bay Area-specific story. In an August release by Zumper, the real estate aggregator found that rent increases and decreases varied considerably across the metro area. In the city of San Francisco, rent prices were down 11% year over year. The neighborhoods normally home to a large portion of tech workers, like Menlo Park, Santa Clara and Milpitas, saw prices go down 16%. On the other hand, in Daly City, rent prices went up 8%, and in Livermore, on the very outer edge of the Bay area, up 14%.

 

Many Bay Area tech companies have announced some of the most liberal work-remote policies that allow employees to work from home until at least 2021, or indefinitely (Twitter and Slack), easing the relocation of a workforce whose rent and home prices have skyrocketed at an unsustainable rate over the last decade. Whether similar trends continue, or spread to other places, may depend in part on other remote work policies and trends, says Arpit Gupta, an assistant professor at the New York University Stern School of Business.

“A big question in my view is: How much will the secondary/tertiary cities gain, relative to just the suburbs of major cities?” Gupta wrote in an email to CityLab. “A lot of this depends, I think, on how work-from-home norms establish.”

The kinds of cities Gupta is talking about could be residential cities in the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay Area, like Livermore. But they are also places like Cleveland, Ohio, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, where attracting remote workers is viewed as a potential resilience strategy. 

 Working from home, like a lot of other factors that make it easier to move, is a luxury that many Americans do not have. In fact, many of the patterns captured in this data are skewed toward people of means: those who can afford to hire moving companies or buy homes. People who can afford to move, period.

In Manhattan, where new listings were down 56% year-over-year from the start of the pandemic through August, it’s the luxury real estate market that seems to be most impacted. For homes priced over $4 million, sales plunged 67%, according to UrbanDigs, a real estate data site.

The apartment vacancy rate in Manhattan exceeded 5% for the first time in August since real estate firm Douglas Elliman started recording it 14 years ago. A data analysis by the New York Times may capture where some of those vacancies are coming from. Smartphone data collected by the Times between March and May 1 found that the richest ZIP codes emptied out in Manhattan during the height of the pandemic. This likely includes large numbers of college students, and people with second homes or family homes to move to, in many cases temporarily. 

As with much of the rest of the pandemic’s toll, this wealth and racial inequality may emerge as a dominant narrative of migration patterns. If current trends hold, the inequality may be geographic, too. But overall Wachter doesn’t expect to see anything like the death of the city. “Cities have had the power to draw, and will continue to have that power to draw job growth,” she said. “And hence for the long run, I expect that there will be recovery.” 

 

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Report: Where Americans Are Moving During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Key Findings

  • 15% of all moves between January and June 2020 were forced by the pandemic
  • 37% of people moving due to COVID moved because they couldn't afford to live where they were living
  • San Francisco, CA and New York, NY had 80% more people leave than move in
  • Scottsdale, AZ was top city by net moves, 68% more people moving in versus out
  • Top destination state by the number of overall move-ins was Florida
  • Nebraska, a state without a statewide stay-at-home order, was the only place where more people moved during the pandemic (+2%)
  • Idaho saw 194% more people moving into the state than out

What Moving During COVID Looked Like

Despite the overall uncertainty, thousands of Americans moved during the COVID pandemic. Where were people most likely to move? Which places were they most likely to leave behind?

At the state level, it's the states with a higher population and a higher rate of COVID spread that saw the biggest net losses of moves. Since the pandemic was declared, ≈64% more people left New York and California than moved in.

Illinois, DC, New Jersey, Connecticut were also among states where departures outnumbered arrivals by 50% or more.

Where Were People Escaping the Pandemic?

Nine states had a net positive in terms of people moving in. Idaho had almost three times as many people move in than out, while New Mexico (+44%), Delaware (+30%), and South Carolina (+26%) all had significantly more people moving into these states than away from them.

Looking at cities, it becomes quite apparent that people were fleeing big urban centers, as San Francisco and New York City had 80% more people move out than in. Los Angeles saw 70% more people leave it behind, while Miami, FL—despite registering more moves than at the same time last year—had 53% more people leave it than move into it.

Further analysis of moves out of San Francisco and New York suggests that most people who left these two major cities didn't go very far.

According to our data, as many as 78% of New Yorkers remained in the Tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, while all those who left San Francisco moved to other cities within California.

Potentially Forced Moving

To what extent were people's moves affected or even forced by the pandemic? We asked 1,350 people who moved between January and June 2020 to find out.

Firstly, as many as 15% of Americans who moved in the first six months of 2020 said they did so because of the COVID pandemic.

Of those people, 37% moved because they couldn't afford their housing due to loss of job and/or income, while 33% decided to shelter-in-place with their families.

Safety was also a serious concern, as 24% moved because they didn't feel safe where they normally live and 23% moved specifically to an area with fewer cases of the coronavirus.

Interestingly enough, 6% of those forced to move by COVID took advantage of the housing market to buy or sell their home.

Affected by workplace lockdowns, 5% of people moving because of the pandemic moved somewhere specifically to be able to work from their new home.

It's not all doom and gloom, however, as an 85% majority of moves weren't forced by COVID. Like in the times of "the old normal", people moved to new and better homes, moved for their new jobs, or chose to relocate due to retirement.

States With the Earliest Stay-At-Home Orders Practiced Caution

Compared to the same period in 2019 (March 11 - June 30), many states saw a decline in moves since the pandemic started. That said, states in the Northeast and in the North were generally more affected than states in the sunbelt.

While New Hampshire saw its number of moves drop by two-thirds (66%), the number of moves in Massachusetts, Oregon, and Minnesota fell by more than 50%.

Other states where the demand for moving services reduced were on the eastern seaboard, with Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey all recording at least a 40% drop in the number of moves since the start of the pandemic.

Nebraska—one of the few states without a statewide "stay at home" order in place—was the only state with a reliable number of moves. Nebraska saw more moves (+1.8%) compared to the same period in 2019. Read more on where people were moving in 2019.

Two other states without such an order were Utah and Oklahoma, where drop-off in the number of people moving was also relatively moderate, compared to most other states.

Hard Hit Cities Saw Increased Moving Numbers

At the city level, Pittsburgh, PA and Portland, OR saw the number of moves drop off by more than 50% since March 11th, compared to the same period in 2019. People in some of the biggest cities in the country tended to stay put in Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco, which were all down 25% or more.

However, five cities surpassed their level of moving activity from last year, despite the rampant COVID pandemic, three of which were in Arizona. Phoenix (+34%). Chandler (+13%), and Mesa (+7%) all recorded growth in the number of moves. Curiously, so did Miami in Florida, where 8% more people moved during the pandemic, compared to the same time in 2019.

The Moves We Didn't Catch

While HireAHelper covers a statistically significant portion of the moving population, there are other important considerations to denote.

Earlier this month, a study by Pew Research found that 3% of Americans moved and a further 6% had someone move in with them - all due to the coronavirus pandemic. Considering just under 10% of Americans moved in the whole of 2019, 9% moving since the start of the pandemic would suggest a huge spike in moving activity.

One reason why these moves aren't easy to catch is that they might be temporary and therefore smaller in size, not needing the support of a moving company.

As evidenced by various media articles, many people made such moves during the pandemic. Affluent families left big cities for their second homes, regular city dwellers were looking for temporary suburban rentals, while many college students moved back home due to suspension of teaching at most colleges.

Another reason why this isn't necessarily mirrored in our data could be that these moves were completed via other high-expense Full Service or DIY methods. With stay-at-home orders in place in most states, it's likely people chose to carry out their moves either completely on their own or through a no-contact method.

Sources & Methodology

HireAHelper's COVID Moving Study analyzed Hybrid moving data in the US, booked through our online platform in 2020. Five states: Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming were excluded due to a lack of sufficiently representative move data.

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic was taken from its official declaration as a pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Year-on-year comparisons of moving activity between 2020 and 2019 covered the period of March 11th to June 30th.

Unless otherwise stated, all percentages, breakdowns, and summary statistics were derived from the data captured by HireAHelper.com. Additional data sources include PEW Research and a HireAHelper user survey carried out in July 2020.

Net gains or losses in people moving in/out for both states and cities were calculated as the ratio of:

  • # of people moving into the state or city, to
  • the # of people moving out of the state or city
  • expressed as a percentage (%)

Research: VK

Illustration: Chelsea Beck

Press Queries: Jaclyn Lambert

The logo for HireAHelper: A green Moving Box with the letter H inside© HireAHelper, LLC. All rights reserved.
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