Well I'm 44 so the chances of me getting preggo from a one time encounter are pretty rare.

In any case I live in MA and will likely always live here due to family ties.

White, female, married, 2 kids. If I was trans or lqbqt maybe I'd feel differently

Yes I'm actually in Florida now and am shocked by how close together the homes are. I like space

No one wants to live in the red states? Oh honey I'd be happy to live in a red state.

Seriously. I've noticed in my town so many forest and woodsy areas getting chopped down lately and these big ugly houses get built. It's sad. No one seems to replant the trees or anything. Just a big bare space. I could care less about people needing a place to live. No one needs to destroy a forest and build a 2 million McMansion.

Sure other parts of the state are affordable but have you noticed traffic? A long commute can be a major drain on someone's life. No one wants to spend hours in the car to and from work or on a train. People are basically forced to spend money on the greater Boston area if they have an office job in Boston

Yep. I hear a lot of people go on about how great our hospitals are. If you're young and healthy you may not care about that. I'm almost 45 and I guess I don't see what's so fabulous about the healthcare in Boston. We have all these great doctors but it takes forever to get an appt for many of them and going to a dr in Boston is never convenient with the traffic. Schools are another thing where people try and justify the price. I get that but many people use private as well so public schools might not be that important. And the towns where the public schools are very good are of course very expensive.

Overall I think MA is probably a great place if you're rich and enjoy some cold weather.

But then this means knocking down forests and trees to built more housing. Some people enjoy nature. I've noticed that every time a woodsy area is knocked down (and it's been happening a lot lately) no trees are planted. It's so ugly !! Do we want to be a treeless state ? There are plenty of other places people can move to.

I'm not surprised to hear that people are leaving MA. Covid and remote work made people realize that they didn't need a Boston office. I was already surprised by the amount of people moving here over the past decade and what they'd pay for a home. A million for a 3 bed 2 bath just to be close to an office? No thanks. Even with a high salary it doesn't seem like it's worth it. For what? I'm in FL right now and I could get used to this. Unfortunately I have to leave tomorrow.