It been fucking hillarious seeing people doubletalk California demographics.
“Everybody keeps leaving California because the cost of rent and housing keeps going up!” which feels true but like…
It has big “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” energy.
There have always been more people entering than leaving lol.
If the headline was the only thing you read, yes. The article actually says it still has a net loss every year.
It even says it still has a net 60k/year net loss to Texas alone.
The article’s missing headline was driven from the single point that of the people moving to Califorinia, the largest percentage was from Texas.
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Are you making a statement about the article, or my comment?
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Californian retirees move all over the country. You hear people in Florida and Nashville, NC and Virginia, and Seattle, Portland, etc. all complain about the house wealthy Californians moving in and increasing the property prices. These people in Cali that won the house lottery are mostly retirement age and had paid off mortgages. They bitch about us in NY too. NY public employees who have retired and moved to low tax states. You would think they would value these people who are spending money in their communities.
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Best place to be homeless at
I get that this a quip, but it actually is. Weather patterns are a lot more forgiving of the un sheltered. To the point where other states will send their homeless to us. As if we weren’t putting enough people out.
How could it possibly be better than like, southern Cali?
I swear if I was ever homeless and without dependents, I’d just start walking southwest. Fuck being homeless in the winter up north.
In the NE we have a better semblance of a safety net. We are working on a solution to the defunding of medicaid and other federal subsidies we use to bolster it and much involves taxing the ultra rich/wealthy citizens. There are other nascent agencies/organizations being built to administer to our people.
I recently met a guy who wants to join his family down in Georgia. He is an amputee, lives in a nursing home, requires dialysis three days a week. He says there is a 30 day wait period in Georgia in order for him to access the medical benefits he needs to live. But he is hoyer dependent. His family can’t afford one or probably have even trained to operate it or care for him while he waits. So he remains here, only getting to see his daughters and grandchildren 1-2 times a year. It was so sad.
He makes the best of his situation and was constantly making upbeat conversation. Young to be so disabled- just in his 50s. I doubt he will make 65.
Best place to be homeless to
I often work in rural TX. I’ve had a number of Texans suggest I ought to move there, cause muh freedums. Yeah, I target shoot a little, but I’m lefty as hell. I talk about guns sometimes to deflect questions about my politics.
They are so full of themselves. They think because great grandpa was a cowboy that they inherit all his toughness. I don’t know how grandpa lived, but I know Texans today live mostly in air conditioning and love shopping, huge portions, and convenience. They’re fully convinced there is nowhere better on Earth. But no, I’ve been all over the Earth. TX sucks and I’d never move there.
Texans are some of the most delusional people on the planet.
On both sides of the political spectrum.
Florida and Tennessee have entered the chat.
They’re fully convinced there is nowhere better on Earth.
Huh. So Texas is to Americans what America is to the world. Interesting.
(I’m mostly joking…)
It’s really accurate, though.
Most texans believe texas is the greatest place on earth while never having even left their state. That’s how delusional they are.
Texas is a very large state; quite larger than not only many states but also many nations. The regular working people there do have high overhead… the property taxes in TX, the home insurance, sales tax, energy costs, water fees and other fees that have been off loaded to municipalities and residents very much makes up for the income taxes one sees in Blue states. So it is not surprising that the average Texan is somewhat a sheltered child who is fed RW news like Fox etc. and believes them. It is not easy to leave the state unless one has the funds to pay for airline tickets for their family. Driving is a commitment that requires adequate paid time off there and back.
This is going to be really interesting to watch. If you look at the data over some decades, California has had cycles of net influx and net loss of people. We were losing people at a low rate for a bit before the pandemic, but it really increased drastically during it. Most people think it’s because the availability of remote work surged, so people kept their salaries and went to places where the cost of living is cheaper. But with more companies wanting at least some in-office days, how many might come back? Should be interesting.
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
Big Wheels is convinced of the role of the unitary state executive like Trump in DC. No checks, no balances.
