Americans are no longer on the move

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Americans see themselves as people on the move. When the going gets tough, or when opportunity beckons, we get up and go. We move around a lot.

Actually, we don’t — or don’t nearly as much as we used to. The percentage of Americans moving every year is less than that of half a century ago and down significantly since the early 1990s.

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