Yamaha VMax: Am I a joke to you?

CA is the last state I would move to.

I’ll even back you up a bit...

I have bad news for you. There hasn’t been a Republican any statewide held office in years.

I have been wondering how much migration to the central US is people who just need work. The wealthy can hide in their homes forever, but most people need a steady job, and this shutdown nonsense is going to drive people to greener pastures permanently. Ps. Might have to do with power outages, high cost of utilities,…

The Economist had a series once in which they referred to CA as the most dysfunctional state in the union.  Why?  The biggest problem is the state’s laws that have been passed by ballot initiatives can only be undone or corrected by another ballot initiative.  The state legislature can’t touch them.  Because of that,…

Every Californian that I run into here in Texas mentions how bad their government is in literally the first sentence.

Let’s check the NYC to Houston route surely that will prove that this is because of fires.

Here’s a better explanation: All the ludicrously high-paid software engineers that are now 100% work-remote are taking their 6-figure salaries and moving to cheaper areas where it doesn’t cost $5k/mth to live in a shoebox.

State to State Migration (which is tracked by the Census Bureau) has consistently been negative. On average, 200K more people LEAVE than arrive every year.

The fires might have been the tipping point, but yeah, it’s almost certainly the cost of living. Sell your LA 3bdr/2ba, buy an identical house in Houston on a bigger lot for a third of the price and half the taxes, then buy two more to make some rental income with the change and look at that four-grand truck as the…

hard to blame the GOP for anything that goes on in California, but go off.

Hey Erin, there are 7.753 million people in the Bay Area. I’m sure you’re even connected to a few on LinkedIn. Since you didn’t ask them why people are moving, I’ll fill you in.

Why is the “Managing Editor “ guessing why Californians are fleeing the State when the information is readily available:

“If I had to guess, I’d say people are leaving California due to the heartbreaking wildfires that seem to get worse and worse every year”

This. I just moved to Charlotte from Oklahoma, but 90% of the new folks in town I’ve run into so far are NYC transplants who came in the last few months. It’s like as soon as NYC shut down every cultural aspect of living in NYC (permanently, it seems) while all the jobs went remote, everyone realized that paying $3k…

Yeah, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fires, and everything to do with the ridiculously high cost of living in places like San Francisco and LA. 

Do you really think it’s the fires that began in the past 2-3 weeks causing people to flee the Bay Area and LA? Might it have more to do with the pandemic that has lasted 6 months or so and the much less business-friendly approach CA took compared to TX? Or perhaps the years-long increases in living costs that were…

They are not leaving due to the wild fires. They are leaving due to the taxes, crime and other BS that California has instituted!