Zillow ranks U.S. cities where people want to live and where they want to leave

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Residents of Washington, D.C., Miami, Detroit, Houston and Chicago want out – and not many house-hunters want in.

Meanwhile, Seattle, Tampa and Portland are popular targets for homebuyers who live elsewhere as well as residents who already live in those cities.

That's according to Seattle-based Zillow, which has analyzed searches from house-hunters to figure out which U.S. cities residents want to leave and where they want to stay.

By comparing the locations of its users with the cities that they're searching, Zillow has charted cities based on popularity with outsiders and popularity with current residents.

Housing markets in Minneapolis and New York City show faint interest from outsiders but a strong majority of Zillow traffic coming from inside the city limits, showing residents want to stay in town with their next home purchase.

San Francisco is similar to Seattle in that a large share of people looking for homes there are coming from outside the city. That's likely due to magnetic pull of both cities' booming economies.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2017/04/10/zillow-housing-market-desirability-cities.html?ana=e_tf&s=newsletter&ed=2017-04-10&u=ColXVN5SPzQtLHFP87ho2w07857290&t=1491870823&j=77905671

[mopinko]

1. meh. zillow

i get zillow emails, and keep an eye on local prices and available properties. i'm not going anywhere.
searching zillow =/= moving somewhere

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. But how many people go from showing interest to actually moving?

I b**** about the chicago area and dream of moving to the northwest, too, but I'll probably never do it.