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-Land of the Free
Californians Leaving For Greener Pastures In Droves
2018-03-22
[DAILYWIRE] Based on the latest U.S. Census Bureau statistics from July 2016 to July 2017, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,ns are leaving the state in droves. As Jed Kolko, chief economist with employment website Indeed.com, pointed out regarding the data, "The rate at which California has been losing people to other states has accelerated in the past couple of years, in part because of rising housing costs ... more people moved out of California to other states than moved in from other states. In other words, California lost people due to domestic migration."
...people who take their voting patterns with them.
There are apparently three prime destinations for the migrating Californians: Texas, Arizona, and Nevada. The census showed that during the period it covered, 79,000 people moved to Texas, 63,000 moved to Arizona, and 38,000 migrated to Nevada.

Interestingly, as Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research and consulting firm Beacon Economics in Los Angeles, noted when looking at the data, "lower income Californians are the ones who are leaving, not higher income."

The cost of housing appears to be the prime motivator for people to leave the Golden State; according to industry tracker Zumper, five of the top 10 most expensive rental markets in the country are in California. the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
 is number one; San Jose is third; Los Angeles is sixth; Oakland is seventh, and San Diego is tied for eighth.

The National Association of Realtors and its state association assert that the median price in California for a single-family home is $550,990 compared to the national median price of $247,800.

Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California, said the emigration from California among higher-income people will increase.

Even H.D. Palmer, a finance front man for California governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown
... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it...
, admitted that the state’s top marginal personal income tax rate is the highest in the nation.

Posted by:Fred

#16  NoMoreBS, in the early 90s I moved to Spokane Washington and found the locals tended to dislike Californians because they drove the housing prices up. My wife worked for a realtor, they loved Californians, but anyone renting or trying to buy a house hated them.
Posted by: ruprecht   2018-03-22 21:43  

#15  IMHO the Beacon Analyst is FOS. Every single site I have looked at for moving out of Northern California (Prescott, Boise metro area, Coeur d'Alene, Carson City NV, Aiken SC) has had significant Californication of the housing prices. In my last trips to Boise, Nampa. and Minden/Gardnerville, the realtors opened commented on the number of California exiles that had been driving up housing prices. Mind you, these were all homes we were looking at in the 600-750 k range, and were comparable or modest upgrades to California prices where we live now. Lower income refuges from the Workers Paradise of California may also be fleeting, but this impact was all high-middle to high end impacts.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2018-03-22 18:01  

#14  Maybe Australia will give a few of us fast-track immigration the way they are doing for South African farmers.

I would offer Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson Airport as the 'gateway.' Be advised, Californians now living in Georgia have priority boarding.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-22 17:26  

#13  #10 Keep leaving. When I'm the last one left I can be King!

I think the devil said something similar about hell.
Posted by: Bertie Thraque7563   2018-03-22 17:00  

#12  Maybe Australia will give a few of us fast-track immigration the way they are doing for South African farmers.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-03-22 16:22  

#11  Interestingly, as Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research and consulting firm Beacon Economics in Los Angeles, noted when looking at the data, "lower income Californians are the ones who are leaving, not higher income."

I suspect these are not the GOP voters we are looking for.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-03-22 15:07  

#10  Keep leaving. When I'm the last one left I can be King!
Posted by: AuburnTom   2018-03-22 12:45  

#9  people who take their voting patterns with them.

This is not a random sample of Californians. The people who are moving are conservative and are disgusted with the nanny state.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2018-03-22 11:32  

#8  Most people stay put even if nothing is keeping them where they are.

Agreed. Back in 1986 - 1987, I couldn't move out of Manchester, NH fast enough. State Street Bank's mutual fund accounting dept. was booming at the time, so off I went. It was an easier move for me because my family were all criminals & assholes. When I was helping out on our last big high school class reunion, I figured 75-80% of the people I got in touch with were still in the greater Manchester area, thirty years later.
Posted by: Raj   2018-03-22 09:00  

#7  Like a cancer... and just as deadly.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-03-22 08:59  

#6  Many are heading to Austin.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-03-22 08:57  

#5  Its how the Black Plague was spread.

Note well, they aren't headed to Mexico.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-03-22 08:13  

#4  And packing their liberal ideology with them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-22 05:15  

#3  Yes. We're doing so "well" managing the mex border, why not invite the Chinee to have a CONUS outpost too.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-22 01:31  

#2  All the more reason China gets to buy it and finish that slow choo choo and then they are nor seceding, just bought.
Posted by: newc   2018-03-22 01:18  

#1  Fantastic statistical and economic lesson. Most people stay put even if nothing is keeping them where they are.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-22 00:11  

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