{"id":3932,"date":"2010-11-26T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/the-cost-of-leaving-california\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:36:36","slug":"the-cost-of-leaving-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/the-cost-of-leaving-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The U-Haul&reg; Migration Theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/trailer.png' alt='trailer.png' class='right' \/>Damsel and I are expecting some <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/southwestern-sconces-for-the-new-house\/\">fixtures<\/a> we ordered to be delivered to our California residence. Since the fixtures need to go to the Arizona residence for installation, we will need a way to transport them when they get here.<\/p>\n<p>I looked into renting a trailer from U-Haul for a one-way trip. We only need a single day rental, but they say all rates are for up to three days of use. U-Haul quoted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/Reservations\/RatesTrailers.aspx\">on-line rate<\/a> of $101 for their smallest cargo trailer one-way from the L.A. area to Wickenburg.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: 4&#8242; x 8&#8242; Cargo Trailer &#8211; courtesy U-Haul&reg;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not yet convinced that renting a trailer is the most inexpensive way to get the packages to the new house. We&#8217;re considering alternatives such as hauling the packages on the SUV&#8217;s cargo rack under a tarp and secured with bungee cords.<\/p>\n<p>I remember someone blogging about U-Haul being a good indicator for migratory trends. Because of the law of supply and demand, it should be less expensive to rent a one-way trailer (or truck) in the direction that is less popular. Sure enough, when I reversed the route on the website, the rate dropped from $101 to $67 for the three day period to go from Wickenburg to the L.A. area.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t test the <strong>U-Haul migration theorem<\/strong> any further than this one comparison, but the results told me what I expected &#8211; people are leaving more than they are arriving. After the recent election results in California, who could blame us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel and I are expecting some fixtures we ordered to be delivered to our California residence. Since the fixtures need to go to the Arizona residence&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-california","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}