“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.
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)
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
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.
If you're one of the people fleeing the crapholes, please learn from your mistakes and not make the good places you're moving to into new crapholes.
That is the WONDER of our Federalist system.
If your State is going crazy with NONSENSE,...you can find solace in a different STATE.
Please God, we MUST remain a REPUBLIC.
Looking for new nests to foul.
Happy not to see my state not on the list. It’s an old Confederate state with beautiful rural settings. That said, I look around and there are a lot of folks moving in from different states into newly built housing developments. Somebody has discovered us. It’s a two-edged sword.
I moved from NY to SC in 2019, just before the pandemic hit. One of my rare good life decisions.
Spreading the liberal cancer to their new areas.
A lot of them are moving here to East Texas. And, I’m not liking it.
California used to be Hell on Earth I and New York Hell on Earth II. Now that is reversed.
As long as they don’t move here!!!
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I’m in Greenville, SC and I can tell you that traffic has gotten a lot worse with so many people moving in. New neighborhoods are going up everywehere and home prices have really jumped over the past three years. This is still a great place to live but we are definitely experiencing growing pains. Most of the people I’ve met who have moved here are pretty conservative. Greenville/Spartanburg is one of the most conservative areas of the country so liberals likely wouldn’t like it here.