10.2190/YEVE-6L7N-9M8D-DP96 YEVE6L7N9M8DDP96 5 The Importance of Amenities and Attitudes: A Washington Example 269 277 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 YEVE6L7N9M8DDP96.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=YEVE6L7N9M8DDP96 3 Gundars Rudzitis Rosemary A. Streatfeild University of Idaho, Moscow Oregon State University, Corvallis Most models of why people move or stay have assumed that economic reasons were the primary driving force. More recently noneconomic or amenity reasons have been recognized as other major factors in the decision to move or stay. We report on the results of a random survey of 398 people in San Juan County, Washington. Amenities were found to be important both for migrants and residents, although there were differences between the two groups. Migrants and residents also differed on issues such as raising taxes to improve local services. We also found differences by age category. Discriminant analysis was successful in classifying both on resident/migrant and under and over age sixty-five categories. G. Rudzitis and H. E. Johansen, <i>Amenities, Migration and Nonmetropolitan Regional Development</i>, Report to the National Science Foundation, June, 1989. D. R. Hauren and J. R. Hauren, New Migration, Unemployment, and the Business Cycle, <i>Journal of Regional Science, 28</i>, pp. 239-254, 1988. R. J. Krumm, Regional Labor Markets and the Household Migration Decision, <i>Journal of Regional Science, 23</i>, pp. 361-376, 1983. G. Rudzitis, Migration, Places, and Nonmetropolitan Development, <i>Urban Geography, 10</i>, pp. 396-411, 1989. E. L. Ullman, Amenities as a Factor in Regional Growth, <i>Geographical Review, 44</i>, pp. 119-132, 1954. P. E. Graves, A Life-Cycle Empirical Analysis of Migration and Climate, by Race, <i>Journal of Urban Economics, 6</i>, pp. 135-147, 1979. P. E. Graves, Migration with a Composite Amenity: The Role of Rents, <i>Journal of Regional Science, 23</i>, pp. 541-546, 1983. G. Rudzitis, Determinants of Central City Migration Patterns of Older Persons, in <i>Location and Environment of the Elderly Population</i>, S. Golant (ed.), Halstead Press, Washington, D. C., pp. 55-63, 1979. G. Rudzitis and H. E. Johansen, How Important is Wilderness? Results from a United States Survey, <i>Environmental Management, 15</i>, pp. 227-233, 1991. B. J. Cushing, Location-Specific Amenities, Topography, and Population Migration, <i>Annals of Regional Science, 21</i>, pp. 74-85, 1987. R. L. Morrill and J. Downing, Environmental Factors in the Growth and Redistribution of Population in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1980, <i>Northwest Environmental Journal, 21</i>, pp. 43-62, 1986. L. A. Ploch, The Reversal in Migration Patterns—Some Rural Development Consequences, <i>Rural Sociology, 43</i>, pp. 293-303, 1978. A. J. Sofranko and J. O. Williams, <i>Rebirth of Rural America: Rural Migration in the Midwest</i>, Iowa State University, Ames, 1980. J. B. Stevens, The Demand for Public Goods as a Factor in the Nonmetropolitan Turnaround, in <i>New Directions in Urban-Rural Migration</i>, D. L. Brown and J. M. Wardwell (eds.), Academic Press, 1980. C. von Reichert and G. Rudzitis, Multinomial Logistic Models Explaining Income Changes of Migrants to High-Amenity Counties, <i>The Review of Regional Studies, 22</i>, pp. 25-42, 1992. A. W. Evans, The Assumption of Equilibrium in the Analysis of Migration and Interregional Differences: A Review of Some Recent Research, <i>Journal of Regional Science, 30</i>, pp. 515-531, 1990. K. Berger, <i>Jewels in the Crown</i>, Washington, 5, 1988. U. S. Bureau of the Census, <i>City and County Data Book</i>, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1992. D. A. Dillman, <i>Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method</i>, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1978. W. Klecka, <i>Discriminant Analysis</i>, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, 1980. U. S. Bureau of the Census, <i>Washington County Business Patterns</i>, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1992.