Forbes pulled its data from a study by moving company United Van Lines, which analyzed customer moves across the 48 continental states in 2012.

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Moving company United Van Lines released its 36th annual study of customer migration patterns, analyzing a total of 125, 000 moves across the 48 continental states in 2012.

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Moving-van driver Derrick Mazyck, 32 years old, spent three hours getting from Brooklyn to a job on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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