'Take this house and shove it'

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'Take this house and shove it'

More and more Americans are moving to get away from overheated housing markets.

NEW YORK(CNNMoney.com) - Many residents of high-priced housing markets around the country are cashing out and moving to more affordable areas.

In Massachusetts, a quarter of the people in the state said they would leave if they had the opportunity, according to a poll by MassINC, a non-profit public policy think tank. They would join some 170,000 Bay Staters who left for other parts of the United States between 2000 and 2004.

The No. 1 reason cited by those who want to leave: The high cost of living. And the No. 1 area needing major improvement: Housing affordability.

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http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/05/real_estate/buying_selling/forget_this_housing_market/index.htm?cnn=yes