He said deciding to move was a difficult choice.
"This time, a sizable chunk of states are deciding to move back".
Seemingly small outlays – buying smaller furniture, hiring a van – can stop older people deciding to move.
The Bills and the N.F.L. had been criticized for not deciding to move the game sooner.
Now more people are deciding to move as a result of another stressful event: losing their jobs.
In addition, unlike the earlier settlers, today's tend to be older, with many deciding to move here for retirement.
"The inexpensive ones are a complete joke," she said, adding that she and her husband went through several of them before deciding to move up.
"He has put years into becoming a master of the field, but it's not the entire Valley deciding to move into clean-tech".
The couple had moved four times in eight years, renovating their rental apartments each time -- and then deciding to move when the rents were increased.
He went to art school in Tokyo and worked as an assistant to the avant-garde artist Jiro Takamatsu, before deciding to move on to fashion.
That price change can mean the difference between choosing to stay in the city and deciding to move to the suburbs.
