ASSOCIATED PRESS / FEBRUARY 2005
Big jump in young adults moving out of state
The suburbs of Las Vegas from atop the Stratosphere tower looking west down Sahara Ave.towards the Spring Mountains. New census data released today offer a detailed look at U.S. migration as mobility begins to revive after sliding to a record low last year. The demographic shifts, which analysts say could continue for many more years, are once again rejiggering the housing map. Out are the super-sized McMansions in far-flung suburbs and in the sprawling Southwest, which helped drive rapid metro area growth in the early to middle part of the last decade in places such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, Orlando, Fla. and Atlanta.