10 US cities job seekers are flocking to right now — and 5 cities they’re abandoning to get there

When job seekers move to a new area, it’s usually for a specific company— not for the city itself.

But some cities are especially attractive to “metro movers,” or those who apply to jobs outside of the metro area they live in.

That’s according to a new report by Glassdoor chief economist Andrew Chamberlain.

Especially popular cities were those with high-profile companies — like San Francisco’s Facebook, Salesforce, and Lyft— or those with a mélange of industries, like Washington D.C.’s mix of healthcare, government, consulting, and education.

Other cities have residents who are itching to apply and work elsewhere. They tended to be cities that are near booming job hubs, like Providence, San Jose, and Baltimore.

Glassdoor analyzed 668,000 online job applications over one week to understand work-related migration in the US. Almost 30% of these applications were to jobs in a different metro area than the job seeker’s present residence.

Below are the 10 cities that attracted the most job applications from outsiders ranked in order of the smallest to largest percentage of applications from job seekers willing to move: