Moving across state lines is one of the most consequential decisions most Americans ever make. It changes your taxes, your job market, your kids' schools, your healthcare network, your political environment, and the cost of every gallon of milk you'll buy for the next decade. And yet, when you sit down to actually research a move, you're stuck stitching together half a dozen websites, none of which talk to each other.
We built piomover because we got tired of doing that ourselves.
The data is mostly free, and mostly fragmented.
The federal government publishes extraordinary datasets — BLS for jobs, BEA for prices, Census for demographics, FBI for crime, NOAA for climate. The Tax Foundation publishes great tax tables. Zillow gives away ZIP-level housing data. The problem is none of it is on the same page, in the same units, comparing the same two places.
So we wired all of it into a single comparison engine, normalized by household type, and stacked it side-by-side. Twelve life-decision categories. Real source attribution on every number.
We don't compute "safety scores".
Composite safety scores are seductive and almost always misleading. Crime data has gaps — agencies stop reporting, reporting practices vary, NIBRS coverage moves over time. We show raw violent and property crime rates from FBI CDE, with explicit reporting agency, year, and a 5-year trend. We let you judge.
We also explicitly forbid use of our data for any decision governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. That's in our terms.
What's next.
This is Phase 1: real data, real comparisons, the salary translator that's already saved a few of us from underestimating moves to the Bay. Phase 2 brings PDF export, email drip campaigns tied to your move date, and integrated insurance / mortgage quote widgets through transparent affiliate partners.
Try it free. We hope it helps.