This is in line with Life 2.0 and other works:

America on the move: Goodbye Beantown, hello Gilbert (Ariz.)
Census Bureau figures being released Thursday show no letup in the migration to the South and West, which are home to all 10 of the fastest-growing cities with at least 100,000 people.


''People like to live in smaller places and a lot of it's propelled by the sharp spike in housing costs in the inner and more attractive cities,'' said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. ''People want to get as much housing as they can for their dollars.'' (ed. note: DUH!!!)
The median price for a single-family home in Gilbert is around $220,000, compared with more than $387,000 in Boston and $641,000 in San Francisco


This is not shaping up to be a good decade for older cities in the United States in contrast to the 90s,'' said Lang. ''This performance probably doesn't rival the 70s, which stand out as the worst decade, but looks to be underperforming even the 80s.''

I'm telling everyone who will listen with high appreciation houses in the Northeast and other places-- the Bubble Cometh. Get out now.