My OperaMap Gadget
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:04:16 PM
There is a page on the Forbes magazine website which tracks where people moved in 2008 from county to county. It's here. It needs to load a lot of data, so you probably should have DSL, or make another cup of coffee.
If you pick DC, you see movement from and to most of the country, including some to Alaska. Just for laughs, the editor tried El Paso County in Colorado (Colorado Springs) and that's connected to most of the country. Try Teller County, just west of El Paso. That's on the other side of Pikes Peak from Colorado Springs. Hover over Maricopa County (Phoenix) in Arizona. The "hint" will show that no one is known to have moved to Teller (Cripple Creek and Victor) but 40 people moved to Maricopa.
Try Fayette County in Illinois (Vandalia, on I70). Not a whole lot of movement in 2008, with almost no one going more that 70 miles, which is St. Louis.
If you click DC, PG County is a bit hard to isolate on the hover because the gadget doesn't seem to look through its lines, but Calvert and Anne Arundel are there.
If you pick DC, you see movement from and to most of the country, including some to Alaska. Just for laughs, the editor tried El Paso County in Colorado (Colorado Springs) and that's connected to most of the country. Try Teller County, just west of El Paso. That's on the other side of Pikes Peak from Colorado Springs. Hover over Maricopa County (Phoenix) in Arizona. The "hint" will show that no one is known to have moved to Teller (Cripple Creek and Victor) but 40 people moved to Maricopa.
Try Fayette County in Illinois (Vandalia, on I70). Not a whole lot of movement in 2008, with almost no one going more that 70 miles, which is St. Louis.
If you click DC, PG County is a bit hard to isolate on the hover because the gadget doesn't seem to look through its lines, but Calvert and Anne Arundel are there.
