A recent report from U-Haul revealed migration to southern states has continued and Texas was the top destination for those moving.
“California and Illinois ranked as the states with the greatest one-way net loss of U-Haul trucks, and most of that traffic appears to have gone to Texas and Florida,” Fox Business reported on Friday.
“So many Californians are leaving the once Golden State that the moving giant says it ran out of wheels for them to rent,” the outlet stated.
Texas was at the top of the list prior to the pandemic in 2016 and 2018, but fell to Florida in 2019 and Tennessee the next year. Now, it has retaken top place.
California’s net loss was not as bad as in 2020, but U-Haul said that was partly because the company “simply ran out of inventory to meet customer demand for outbound equipment.” more here
Here in the mountain stated you can’t buy avalanche emergency gear.
Calistan’s state motto will change from the historic: “Eureka!” (I found it) to the appropriate: “Efiga !” (I fled)
Step one when I decided to move out 18 months ago was to set up the mover. I wanted to be sure I had that locked up before I did anything else – including telling my parents.
I prefer Enterprise. Their trucks are in better shape and rates are better also.
Wow. Man bun folks ain’t seen nothin’ til they go after a LARGE Texan woman’s man. Let the games begin.
Wish they’d move to Nevada, Utah or Arizonia
I live in a small, very conservative, Texas town. Let’s keep it that way!!
I need to visit my parents… Truck tires are under $950 each, right? 🙂
People are bitching about them coming to Texas but my property value is skyrocketing. I just might have to sell, move to a neighboring state and in 10 years do it again.
Here they come, BLM, antifa, trannys, the non-binary & of course your gays. Texas holdem & you can have em.
We sold our house in Oregon last month, and are actively searching. Any place within 500 miles of California that is half-way decent has seen at least a 20% real estate price increase over the last year.
Just don’t take your idiotic politics with you.
Never had a uhaul truck that didn’t break down. Once had to put the move on hold for a day because we were crossing the desert & the A/C had to be repaired. POS crapped out again across AZ before even reaching Phoenix.
Rented a trailer once & had the floor of it break underfoot as we were loading furniture.
My experience with uhaul is a lot of ill-maintained junk. I’d use anyone but uhaul in the future.
It now costs 4 times as much to rent a U-Haul from California to Texas (one way) than the other way around.
U-haul charges a return fee if you’re not bringing it back. Exactly the way they always do business no matter where you are going, to or fro.
The whole system can move trucks to where they are needed. It’s what they do. As he was saying they were out of trucks, there were U-haul trucks heading to Cali.
The key phrase was “so rapidly”. They temporarily ran out with so many moving.
Reminds me of coming back to Texas in 1980 at the end of the Carter years. (shudder).
These people better not talk about how they did something better where they came from. We’ll make bumper stickers telling them what highway will take them back.
Heart NY? Take I-30 East <– a popular one here in the early 80s
U-Haul isn’t the only game in anyone’s town.