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Either interstate migration is still on the rise around here, or incoming Atlantans really dislike U-Hual.
In what’s become more redundant than Crimson Tide national championships, Atlanta today was again named the top moving destination in the U.S. by Penske Truck Rental.
This marks the eighth-straight year the ATL has captured the moving destination crown, per Penske’s numbers.
No other city has won the contest since the moving company started publicly comparing annual numbers.
A few things working in Atlanta’s favor in 2017, per Penske’s estimation, included a 62.7 degree average temperature, median home values less than $185,000, and median monthly rents less than $1,600.
Penske’s methodology, as always, was fairly simple; they tracked one-way truck reservations made for each respective place, and Sun Belt cities—as usual—dominated.
Here’s the rest of their top 10:
1. Atlanta
2. Phoenix
3. Dallas/Fort Worth
4. Houston
5. Tampa/Sarasota
6. Orlando
7. Las Vegas
8. Denver
9. Charlotte
10. Portland
After Atlanta won in 2015, a Penske area vice president based in suburban Atlanta, Kerry Gilbert, had this to say:
“It’s a great place to live and work: there are a lot of attractions here and it’s a major metropolitan area that is in close proximity to the state’s natural areas of beauty ... There are a large number of major employers here, and it’s a centralized area for transportation operations on the East Coast.”
Since they like it so much, maybe Penske could offer transferring Amazon employees a discount? Hypothetically speaking, of course.
