The answer is no.
People are getting out because taxes are continually going up to cover the state’s insane public pension liabilities.
The public pensions are guaranteed in the state constitution! In order to buy off the union votes the state legislators entered into a suicide pact which means the debt can never be paid off and it can never be defaulted on.
Insane.
Yep! I'm looking at jobs in eastern Tennessee and South Carolina at the moment. Interviewed for them already progressed to second round and hoping to get an offer.
I'll be out of Illinois as fast as I can be. This state absolutely SUCKS.