Dive Brief:

• Researchers who have been looking for information on Americans' moving habits say that we are not moving from town to town as much as we used to in recent decades.
• After controlling for a range of variables, they say, it seems to come down to it not being worth it economically to pull up stakes often.
• Some of the institutional shifts in employment that the recession brought, such as a shrinking middle class, may be limiting job moves, but the researchers suspect that people are moving earlier to places where they can do what they want to do and they do not need to move long distances to push their careers. 

Dive Insight:

It's hard to turn the job research into usable information for deciding what kind of houses to build or how many, but it is probably useful just to know that there seems to be fewer moving vans filling up new subdivisions than there were in the 1990s and the beginning of this century.