Posted on 06/02/2024 6:16:12 AM PDT by vespa300
Rising rent prices, a housing struggle, high tax rates, and overcrowding are common issues in many of the cities that top this year’s move-out list. Los Angeles returns in the number one spot, followed by major metropolitan cities (and repeat offenders) like San Francisco, Miami, and Long Island, NY (part of the greater NYC area that PODS services). Unsurprisingly, these cities are also some of the most expensive metro areas in the country.
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“Fleeing” is not correct. The more accurate term is “metasticising” as, just like the “progressive” disease of cancer, these Democrat/Communist Party cult members migrate from the cities and states they have destroyed with their policies and their votes to politically healhier parts of America which they infect with their policies and kill with their votes.
Fifth Generation Californian here. Not at all surprising that leftists have taken one of the most amazing places on the planet, blessed with natural harbors, vast agricultural soils, water (yes), timber, mining, great weather, endless recreational opportunities, a once free university system, etc., and turn it into a place people (myself sometimes included) want to flee. Punishing taxes, a ruinous school system, rampant crime, and a seemingly permanent and destructive state bureaucracy. Add to that the fact that we’re now socially fragmented, and that the culture which made this at one time an absolute gem and a model for the world exists no longer. Gut punch of reality.
Yeah, and a lot of them “bay area” folks are coming just across the state line to Reno. But, Reno is already blue so they won’t insert much more damage. I hope.
Unfortunately, Florida is also becoming unaffordable, even with no state income taxes.
People coming to Florida and investing the money they got from sale of their previous blue-are houses, is making home prices in Florida comparable to prices in the blue areas where those people came from.
I’ve seen neighbors moving away, to places like Missouri and Tennessee and N. Caroline, saying that they could buy bigger and better homes in those areas for the prices they’ve been selling their homes in Florida. I know two neighbors, within a block from my home, who are selling their homes for twice the price those homes were valued at two years ago.
Florida may remain a red state, but the cost of living is turning us blue in that regard.
Yes, it’s a d@mn shame what has happened to the once richly blessed and beautiful state of California.
Please, y’all, don’t come here. The weather is much too hot!
Top Move ins ... per article ...
Rank/ City
1 Myrtle Beach, SC/Wilmington, NC (1st in 2023)
2 Ocala, FL (4th in 2023)
3 Houston, TX (5th in 2023)
4 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (10th in 2023)
5 Charlotte, NC (16th in 2023)
6 Raleigh, NC (20th in 2023)
7 Phoenix, AZ (18th in 2023)
8 Knoxville, TN (7th in 2023)
9 Jacksonville, FL (8th in 2023)
10 Asheville, NC (17th in 2023)
11 Boise, ID (15th in 2023)
12 Portland, ME (13th in 2023)
13 Nashville, TN (11th in 2023)
14 Atlanta, GA (Not ranked in 2023)
15 Johnson City, TN (Not ranked in 2023)
16 Huntsville, AL (Not ranked in 2023)
17 Dover, DE (Not ranked in 2023)
18 Orlando, FL (3rd in 2023)
19 Savannah, GA (19th in 2023)
20 Greensboro, NC (Not ranked in 2023)
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Are you in TX, too?
Gavin Newsom says this b/c the "oil companies are gouging" - but then why aren't they "gouging" in other states?
He also mandated fast food workers get paid $20.00/hour - with further raises to come. 10,000 fast food workers have been laid off across the state so far - with fast food businesses automating as fast as they can in order to hold prices down.
His leftist policies are directly leading to people fleeing this state.
Love my State. Hate its government.
Please come to Johnson City or anywhere in East Tennessee. We have too many of you already.
Yes it’s a damn shame. Totally screwed up policies. Run by bureaucrats and government unions and NGO lobbyists. I’ve lived here all my life. I’m loathe to leave. I can’t stand the humidity in the south nor the winters in the north. It’s perfect here except for most of the people and those who manage it.
Maybe it’s time for the Big One.
I got family in Florida, and they advise me NOT to move there for the very reasons you highlighted. They also say it’s way too hot as well!
No, SC; hotter than H here, too!
I could not move around San Antonio yesterday/Saturday. I know the backroads, so with some planning I was able to get back
They’ll all vote Democrat. That’s a problem worse than the coming water restrictions, sharing the electric grid
I get the sense there are still good spots to live in most states, far from the big urban areas. I’m in a great spot in blue Colorado, good people here, this county went 65%-35% Trump. My old biz partner retired and moved to Myrtle Beach, NC years ago, loves it. Have relatives in central Texas that love it, and some that are happy in Idaho. “Location, location, location” means more than ever.
“ Fleeing” is not correct. The more accurate term is “metastasizing”
Turning Rexas blue
I’m a lifelong Texan .... and, staying.
The Left aims to do to the country what is has done to California.
Portland, Maine is surprising. Maine is a swing state and except for the coast from Kittery to Freeport is center right. A little liberal on some social issues, Fiscally conservative.
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