By Howard Fischer | Paradise Valley Independent
PHOENIX – New estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that more than 256,000 people moved to Arizona last year, and close to a quarter of them arrived here from another country.
Still, there was a lot of what’s called domestic migration.
That includes more than 54,000 former Californians.
Nearly 17,000 from Texas decided they prefer Arizona.
Meantime, 19,900 Arizonans went to the Lone Star State.
More than 6,700 new Arizonans last year came from Michigan and almost 5,700 from Minnesota.
Yet those bitter winters apparently were not a deterrent to everyone.
Some 4,000 Arizonans decided they would rather live in the Great Lakes State. And almost 4,800 decided they want to be in the Land of 1,000 Lakes.
A lot of it comes down to people going where the jobs are.
