Quoting you not to quote you, per se, but because you remind me of a fun data tool.
If you want to see real data, unvarnished, from people with actual skin in the game, go to uhaul.com and see how much it costs to reserve a given truck one-way from the urban shithole of your choice to the freedom flag city of your choice.
I just punched in a capitol hill zip code (CHOP, if they were still there) in Seattle, to my neighborhood, and then reversed it. It costs way over a grand to move this way, but only $240 to go the other way, in a medium rental truck. That’s how many one-way moving trucks get dropped off on this side of the mountains, as opposed to vice-versa.