I’ve moved.

You’re planning a move.

Everybody moves at least a few times in their lives, right?

Have you ever wondered just how many people move each year?

There for a while, over the last decade, few people moved, because they couldn’t afford to. Now it seems the pendulum is swinging back, and as northern Virginia’s go-to residential moving company, we couldn’t be more excited about it.

Americans are moving again.

The following excerpt was originally published by USA Today on October 11, 2014.

Americans, new statistics suggest, are moving again.

New U.S. Census data show that the great slowdown in migration caused by the recession is starting to give way. In 2012, “domestic migration” was as high as it’s been in the past five years — nearly 16.9 million people moved between counties, with long-distance interstate moves accounting for about 7 million of those, up nearly 5% over 2010.

In a sense, [demographer Kenneth Johnson of the University of New Hampshire], said, the recession had the effect of “freezing people in place” as they waited for the economy to improve and their homes to recover value. The 2012 figures may not represent an actual recovery, but it’s “at least a thawing” as conditions begin to improve again, he said.

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Now that the thaw is upon us, places like metropolitan New York, Buffalo and Rochester are starting to see more people leave again, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Census data: In 2009, the Baltimore metro area, which includes the city and surrounding counties, gained 25 people per 10,000 residents from other states. [In 2013], it lost 36 per 10,000.

Meanwhile, places like the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area, which had a net loss of migrants in 2009, added them in 2012. Likewise in Las Vegas, Jacksonville and San Jose, among a few others.

And the Washington DC metropolitan area, too.

According to a separate set of data compiled by a team of researchers at the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg is expected to grow by nearly 70 percent in the next decade and a half. So, while people are moving out of New York and Baltimore, they’re moving into northern Virginia; and guess who’s standing by to help?

You guessed it:

Americans are Moving Again & They’re Calling Northern Virginia’s Go-To Movers For Help