Something to consider is lower income people are leaving the state. I don’t have numbers but I know a few who have left and a few are leaving, all are lower middle class. Most were priced out or sold and moved somewhere where their money went further. I don’t know a whole lot of people but the people I do know are working blue colored folk and a lot are getting pushed out.

I’m a transplant too, came here about four years ago. Bought a house that had sat on the market because back then the market was pretty soft. It’s lovely here and I’ve tried to integrate but it’s getting harder to justify staying since everything is more expensive here. It’s hard paying $6,000 in property taxes a year after the homestead exemption when I could sell and buy a house almost for cash with the proceeds in a lower tax state.