Uh yeah except that list is full of states no one wants to live in (maybe NY and WA, but not the others). And Amazon is setting up new stakes here in OR and since they currently provide 1 job out of every 169 jobs in the United States, I doubt that list will mean much of anything to anyone other than whoever wrote it.

Oh and NY is not more affordable than OR (and it is far more populated).

Ok boomer.

@3 My point was that list is irrelevant and indicative of nothing. A more relevant list is this one, which list states, but then lists cities, and Portland is still in the top 10 on the list of cities millennials are moving to, even if OR is not listed in the top 10 states:
https://smartasset.com/mortgage/where-millennials-are-moving-2021

I am 100% anti-Amazon. I worked for Amazon. I was fired from Amazon when I got seriously ill (and have not been able to work or live independently since and that was 14 years ago).

Despite how shitty Amazon treats its employees and always will, people flock to it as an employer. When I worked at Amazon stock was worth $142/share. It's now worth $3,331/share. People see that and believe they will be the ones to last long enough for them to be able to vest their stock and become millionaires (despite the fact that the average tenure of an Amazon employee is one year - far short of being able to cash in on any stock one may be offered upon hiring).

This news means more people moving to Oregon and more Oregonians working for Amazon (even if only part-time, which many employees of their warehouses do).
Amazon pays more than $27 million for land in Woodburn, plans massive fulfillment center

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/06/amazon-pays-more-than-27-million-for-parcels-in-woodburn-plans-massive-fulfillment-center.html

By no means do I believe people are moving to Oregon solely to work at Amazon.

People will continue moving here for other reasons (though it's worth noting that migration in and migration out is nearly 50/50). And millennials span quite a wide age range: 25-40. That's a lot of people in many different phases of life who move to new places for many different reasons.