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n -, _ _ _ _ _ <br />homes of residents. Other suburban areas produced forty-four <br />percent of the current households. Outstate and other parts of <br />the country9 twenty-one percent. <br />Mounds View has not only succes5fully provided starter homes <br />for families departing the Twin Cities, but has become the <br />location of choice by many suburban residents. Although the <br />I <br />i <br />influx of suburbanites reached its zenith about four years ago, <br />even today a large number make inter-suburban moves into the <br />city. <br />Respondents were also asked why they choose Mounds View: <br />9:ould yo a itell n e o o- tr.o reas ns <br />i why you aoove d to Mourrds Viea? <br />The chief attraction was affordable housing: <br />I <br />DON'T KNOW....a,.....aa..... <br />ae.,...< <br />e..o... <br />b% <br />AFFORDABLE HOUSING...e ..............>... <br />35Y. <br />JOB LOCATION........o.......... <br />e.......... <br />20% <br />012% <br />NEAR FAMILY ....................••••••-••• <br />CONVENIENT LOCATION.o ..................... <br />10% <br />LIKED AREA ................................. <br />8•/. <br />I QUALITY OF SCHOOLS .............e........... <br />6% <br />TO LEAVE TWIN CITIES......................4% <br />i Job location and convenience to the core cities were almost as <br />popular reasons as the affordability of housing. But, as w@ <br />shall see, the lack of "better" housing is a cause of the <br />movement away from the community of many young families. <br />Out-Miqration: <br />The other side of mobility, <br />prospective out-migrationa was <br />assessed through: <br />iAs tl ings x r+ stands M oM long in the <br />futur do you expect to live in Mounds <br />Viea? <br />About thirty percent of the residents tend ta move in the next <br />9