Californians also moved to and ruined Washington State en masse in the 80’s and 90’s when Microsoft and Starbucks were founded and started on a large scale.
They did a number on Vegas as well. I remember seeing no smoking billboard campaigns in the late 90s around the strip, then came the “Vegas is family friendly!” campaign.
Yea those were local ideas alright...not.
The Dotcom boom brought a lot of them. Vegas was a hub for teleco/Net stuff back then.