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Moving between states, explained
Written against the same public federal data the calculator runs on, so the numbers in them are the numbers on the site.
What it costs
The costs of moving, and the ones people forget to count.
What does it cost to move to another state?
The truck is the part people price and the smallest part of the answer. Here is what an interstate move actually costs, and the three numbers that decide it.
Taxes
Income, property and sales tax, and how they interact when you move.
Does moving to a no-income-tax state actually save you money?
Sometimes, and by less than people expect. Every state raises the money somewhere, and the ones without an income tax lean on property and sales tax instead.
Do you pay income tax in two states the year you move?
Usually yes, and usually not twice on the same money. Part-year returns split the year between the two states, and the date you moved decides how.
Housing
Renting and buying in a place you do not live yet.
What a state average hides about where you are moving
The gap between a metro and its own state is often larger than the gap between two states, which is why a statewide median can describe nowhere you would live.
Planning the move
Timing, sequencing and the parts of a move you can control.
How to actually choose between two states
Most people compare the wrong things in the wrong order. Here is a sequence that gets to a decision, and the three numbers that do most of the work.