Americans moving less, staying close to home

At least last year, the rest of the country seems to be following the region's staying-put trend. Only 13% of people moved residences from 2006 to 2007 -- the lowest percentage since the government began tracking moves in the late 1940s.

Hey, what happened to good, old-fashioned wanderlust?

Are Americans getting more boring? More attached to their families? Or maybe just poorer. Among the factors most correlated with moving, according to the Pew study, are education and income. People with more of both move more. 

Here are some more interesting facts about moving from Pew:

The survey also posed questions to U.S.-born movers about the "place in your heart you consider to be home," and to foreign-born respondents about "the country in your heart you consider to be home."

Home means different things to different people. Among U.S.-born adults who have lived in more than one community, nearly four-in-ten (38%) say the place they consider home isn't where they're living now. But there's a wide range of definitions of "home" among Americans who have lived in at least one place besides their original hometown: 26% say it's where they were born or raised; 22% say it's where they live now; 18% say it's where they have lived the longest; 15% say it's where their family comes from; and 4% say it's where they went to high school.