Love of moving is a major feature of America.

As we all know, Americans like to move. For the warm climate and low taxes, they want to move when they find a good job. I believe that most people in China feel very headache about moving, but Americans are keen on moving, not only from one city to another nearby city, but also from the east coast to the west coast. The whole United States can be said to come from Europe? Moving? Over there, when our ancestors immigrated from Europe to North America, there was a famous slogan:? Where there is bread, there is the motherland. ?

Modern Americans have also inherited this spirit. Where life is good and there is development, they will move to their homes.

How many times do Americans have to move in their lives?

According to an interesting statistic, modern Americans generally have to move at least seven or eight times, ranging from ten to twenty times, with an average of 12 times, which is the highest in the world.

In 20 13, the Census Bureau conducted a sample survey on the population above 16, and found that nearly 30 million people moved in the previous year, and one in every nine adults moved in a random year. The mobility is amazing!

Although liquidity in the United States has declined since the 1970s. But on a global scale, the United States is still one of the most mobile countries.

Then why on earth are Americans keen on moving? Why can you move so frequently?

Historical and cultural heritage

First of all, from a historical perspective. What is important in China's traditional culture? Root? This concept, so there are many? Hometown is hard to leave? American consciousness is more like a nomadic people who live on water plants.

Maybe it has something to do with their ancestors immigrated from Europe and modern Americans inherited this? Restless and happy activities? Genes.

America is a country of immigrants. Except for a few native Indians, 99% of Americans are descendants of immigrants. In the United States, there has been a great relocation and steep development of the west in history, and it is common to move from one state to another.

Affected by these factors, Americans' awareness of settled life has become weak. Although it is a developed country, Americans' sense of survival is more like a nomadic people who live on aquatic plants. They are always willing to change and experience new things, and seldom satisfied with the status quo.

As someone said,? There is no better way to change the status quo than pulling up stakes to find greener grass. ?

Another interesting little detail is that Americans and China buy furniture in different ways. China people pay attention to durability when buying furniture, while Americans like to change furniture frequently. When moving, most of the furniture was thrown away or donated on the spot. After moving, they will buy new furniture to match.

The United States has no cumbersome household registration system restrictions and government policies are convenient.

In China, everyone who lives in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen knows that apart from sky-high housing prices, there is another headache: staying there. The down payment ratio of buying a house without a local hukou is much higher. Locals don't look for foreigners who don't have hukou when they fall in love, and they have to pay a tuition fee for their children to go to school. In short, a small hukou will greatly affect the quality of life.

This problem does not exist in the United States. There is no household registration system in the United States, Americans have no household registration, and there are no management institutions such as police stations, village committees and neighborhood committees. Every time American citizens move to a new place, they automatically become residents there, have the right to vote and other political participation in the management of the local government, and automatically enjoy local social welfare benefits.

No application, no approval, no household registration procedures. As long as you live in that place, even if you rent a house, the local government will take the initiative to find you and let you exercise your rights.

In addition, American state governments will send money and land to attract people to live. For example, Harmon, a small town in southeastern Minnesota, USA, implemented a plan? Refund for residential buildings? It is planned to provide $5,000 to $65,438+$02,000 to people who build family homes.

The policy of Niagara Falls in new york is that if young people promise to live in the city for two years, the government will repay their student loans with a maximum amount of $6,984.

I will make money if I move, and I am willing to do so!

Driver's license and social security number are American identity cards.

Without a household registration book and ID card, you can move if you want. Why is there no chaos in America? Because of the driver's license and social security number, all normal people with driving experience in the United States can drive and have a driver's license, and drivers must register with the vehicle management office every time they go to a place for more than 15 days, otherwise they will be regarded as driving with invalid documents. Therefore, every citizen who moves will go to the vehicle management office to register the information about the change of residence. In this way, the vehicle management office will have detailed inflow and outflow information of people with driver's licenses, and the local government will also get inflow and outflow information of local residents.

What about people who can't drive or disabled people who can't drive? I also went to the vehicle management office. I didn't get a driver's license, but I got an ID card. But strangely, this so-called ID card looks exactly like a driver's license.

In addition, there is an important channel for the government to grasp the residents' dynamics, which is the social security number. All legal residents in America have social security cards. This social security number is unique and will accompany everyone from birth to death. In the United States, all things dealing with money, such as paying taxes, enjoying benefits and paying wages, need to be based on their social security numbers. Therefore, every time Americans move to a new place, they have to go to the social security agency to go through the formalities of changing their residence, so that the social security department can keep in touch with themselves and send them information without missing good things.

The American housing market has matured.

The United States has a sound and mature housing market. Through the rise and fall of the rent level, the supply and demand of the housing market will always be balanced.

In other words, you may only think that the rent is expensive, but you won't be unable to rent a house to live in. Even if you have no house to exchange with others, you can still rent a house.

A mature housing market makes it easier to move. Even if you buy a house, you won't tie a person to death there.

The usual way for Americans to buy a house is by installment. He can sell his house when he wants to move. If this is an installment payment, he can sell the house together with the debt relationship, but the selling price will be somewhat different from the original house price. If the local real estate price goes up, you can still make a fortune.

The inheritance of history and culture, the convenience of policies and the maturity of the market all provide the basic guarantee for Americans to move. What will make Americans feel excited? Moving? How about this idea?

Americans attach importance to family, do not accept long-distance separation, and move the whole family if they want.

In China, many people actually work in big cities, settle in small cities, and go home only on holidays every year. American airports and transportation are very convenient, but I still can't accept this lifestyle away from my family. Most people think that Americans are very open and have a chaotic sex life. In fact, once they have a family, Americans will attach great importance to it and don't want to be separated from it.

Americans move for many reasons, such as where the environment is good, where the taxes are low, where the schools are good, where the ethnic population is large, and even where there are many restaurants. As long as they decide to move, the whole family will move together and start a new life. Therefore, in their eyes, it is very incomprehensible to go home to work once or twice a year or go out to work as in China.

Job change

The main reasons are job changes, including going to other places to find a job, starting a new job, transferring the internal work place, needing to be closer to the company and so on. Americans change jobs frequently, and few people engage in a career or retire in a company all their lives.

When choosing a job, they usually take salary as the standard, and go wherever the salary is high.

Even job-hopping across States is very common for Americans. Many American companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola, will pay moving expenses for employees who have moved from other places.

Therefore, it is common to buy a house, sell a house or move because of job changes.

Where do Americans like to move when they move?

Surveys by the US Census Bureau, the National Association of Realtors and interstate immigration websites show that Americans are keen to move to cities with warm climate in the south, and far more people move from big cities to small cities than from small cities to big cities. This is the opposite of China.

The most popular immigrant cities for Americans are Tampa, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Charlotte, North Carolina, San Antonio, Texas, Austin, Nevada, Las Vegas, Orlando, Florida, Jongley, North Carolina and Portland, Oregon.

New york, Chicago, Detroit, San Jose, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cleveland, San Francisco and Philadelphia are the largest cities in the United States.

It can be seen that Americans move to small cities with good climate, low population density, low housing prices and low taxes, while big cities with higher housing prices keep more and more people away. However, Chinese immigrants to the United States are still keen to choose these famous big cities, so some people say that it is because of the increasing number of Chinese that housing prices in these big cities in the United States are getting higher and higher.

Americans love to move, which shows their freedom.

In the United States, no leader or government agency thinks it manages the people. On the contrary, the people run the government and the government serves the people. In the eyes of Americans, the government, like the owners' committee of a trade union, can't do anything by itself. We should establish an organization through which we can express our ideas and manage a country with the same interests.

Therefore, freedom of movement is also the right of every citizen. If I feel uncomfortable in life, I can move. No one or department has the right to obstruct it. Moreover, after moving to a new place, the government or politician who intends to take office will take the initiative to find you or send you a message, hoping that you can exercise your rights.

In short, the love of moving is also a major feature of the United States, and the government seems to have realized the freedom of citizens to move? Governing by doing nothing? Field.