Posted on 12/10/2006 10:28:48 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Wayne Brown gave up $40,000 in income to move from the Bay Area to Kansas. And he feels great.
It got to be too much last year for the college information-technology officer: the commute to downtown San Francisco that sometimes took two hours, the housing-price spiral and the high-wire borrowing that paid for it.
``I would find myself sitting in traffic,'' Brown recalled, ``screaming at people.''
When the Kansas job came up in early 2005, Brown and his wife, Teresa, sold two Bay Area homes and happily settled in a suburb of Kansas City. They have never looked back.
The Browns are an example of what demographers say appears to be an unprecedented phenomenon -- even in a good economy, more people are leaving California for other states than are arriving from the rest of the country.
Between 2004 and 2005, the migration flow into California from the other 49 states started flowing the other way. Data from the state Department of Finance shows that, for the first time this decade, more people left California in 2005 for another state than the number who moved in. Mary Heim, a finance department demographer, says this particular kind of outflow will continue for the foreseeable future.
Unlike the tens of thousands who left Silicon Valley following the tech bust earlier this decade, the new migration is about the quest for something besides a job: a better quality of life at a lower cost of living.
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... California's population of 37 million people is still growing, because of a surplus of births over deaths and because of foreign immigration.
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Closer to 3000 square feet but otherwise spot on.
Home prices, transportation, food, insurance, gasoline, everything is higher. We've got Sprint, Hallmark, Assuent, Black & Veatch, and a couple other world class companies. And if my salary is lower than in New York or LA, my daily commute to work is 10 minutes on a bad day. Can't put a price on that.
And all that will be left in California is rich, white liberals, ghetto punks, and unassimilable Mexicans...
I'd say goron tried to slam me a wee bit.
I just moved to CA from TX, and I'm doing whatever I can to turn CA around, get R voters out, etc.
There are two choices: Give up on CA or try to turn a very difficult state around. I've made my choice, and I'm happy with it.
The good news is that with the mass exodus OUT of CA, one R has moved in recently who is making a difference. :)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Perfect description!
The place will ultimately become the American Zimbabwe - - it's only a matter of time before the state comes for the rich liberals and their gated communities, too. And, like with the last white farmers in Zimbabwe who ignored the writing on the wall to the very end, it will be tough to have much sympathy.
Must be the WTF rate...
Reconquista Mart...
"more people are leaving California for other states than are arriving from the rest of the country."
Well of course, Kali is a septic festering sore, too bad they are all being replaced by illegals from around the world.
Illegals who bring their own festering disease of the body and mind with them.
Nothing new about that, I remember the Seattle area having bumper stickers which read "STOP THE CALIFORNICATION OF WASHINGTON STATE" back in the late 1980s. Obviously, the bumper sticker authors were highly prescient since Washington (particularly the Seattle area) IS CALIFORNICATED NOW!
I'm struggling with this very thing. Where to go? So many have fled California only to find the same problems starting in their new home towns.
Offer her a one-way plane ticket. I don't want to retire in a red-state just to have it purpled by these whack-job idiots!
I hear from NY friends who fled to Florida. they are slowly souring on it - traffic, now insurance rates are going through the roof, etc.
Actually, the high housing cost in California is partly due to those open-space laws the rich people get passed so their views won't be ruined by all the little people moving in next door. I doubt that the border-jumping miscreants have anything to do with it.
And all that will be left in California is rich, white liberals, ghetto punks, and unassimilable Mexicans...
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IOW unassimilable rich white liberals, but most of those rich white liberals, haven't thought that far ahead yet. They're too hysterical about George W Bush.
I really don't know what to think of all these comments of relocating, good/bad states, etc. But I made my move out of Callyfornya as soon as I could, at 19 in 1979 to Northern AZ and it was a very wise move at the time. I saw the beginning of the Callyfornication of AZ, and maybe I was one of the first! There were alot of Eastern transplants too from PA, Michigan, Ohio but they were mostly temporary. When I left AZ for Hawaii, the Callyfornians were a steady stream and I was ready to "get the heck outta dodge!" NOW... the Callyfornians have made Hawaii their newfoundland and it is taking a toll on this island of Hawaii (Big Island). I have been here since 1992, now the traffic is awful, rural areas are being built up, house and lot prices have gone sky high. I bought my house 5 years ago(3BD/2BA/1 acre)for 115K,re-appraised 2 years ago at 260k. I hear alot of complaints from not just the "locals" but long-timers about the "demanding, pushy, know-it-all" mainlanders that have relocated here who have no aloha or the concept of aloha. I myself have been "road-raged" by a few "mainland license" plates for letting cars in front of me or letting them make a turn. So, just remember if any of you relocate here or come to visit, the aloha you see does not mean you can take advantage or that the people are "slow". They are well meaning and thoughtful, who respect others and want to be respected in return. My next move may be Guam or Saipan, aloha kakou.
I'd say you're right. As a girl who was born in Texas (Amarillo) and still have family living among the "rednecks" I found it very insulting to all Texan's and SOutherners in general.
I think your words will be very prophetic one of these days.
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