Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Two things we know - interest rates are low; consumer confidence is high, which means the housing market should be hot. But it is not. It's just OK. NPR's Chris Arnold has been asking, why? CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: Here's something you might not realize. Twenty-five years ago, Americans were more than twice as likely to pick up and move from one state to another. Greg Kaplan is an economist at The University of Chicago. GREG KAPLAN: To me, this is a huge move. It's a huge difference in how people are moving around the country today than they did a generation ago. ARNOLD: Kaplan's research suggests that a central reason for this change is that people don't have to move as much to find a good job that matches their skills. KAPLAN: It used to be the case that if computer science was your thing and you wanted to be a software engineer, the best place for you to reap a return on those skills was to go to Silicon Valley. Now, that
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