Residents Continue to Leave Michigan
Andrew Norton
Nearly 48,000 more people left Michigan than moved here from July 2004 to July 2005. The people leaving are no longer young people fresh out of college, but those that have been laid off or had their companies shut down. Michigan is not the leader in having residents migrating out of the state. California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York all had more people leave their states than move in and in greater numbers than those who left Michigan.