Oregon is a popular place to visit

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Many people like Oregon. Sometimes they visit. Sometimes they move here to live.

United Van Lines is a moving company. It helps people to move to new homes. It looked at its work in 2018. It learned interesting things.

More people (55%) moved west. They went to places with mountains. This was Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona.

The most popular state was Vermont. Oregon was the second most popular place to move. Many people came to Oregon. Few people left Oregon.

New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, and Kansas had the highest number of people leaving.

From ESOL News Oregon by Timothy Krause, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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  1. Why do you think many people come to Oregon?
  2. What place do you want to visit, and why?
  3. Why do you think so many people left New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, and Kansas ?