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.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Here's my response to an exceptionally dumb comment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751344/posts?page=111#111
I left and have never looked back at the State it has become. A beautiful State? Absolutely, but it's being ruined... even with all the enviro-whacko stuff that is supposed to preserve it.
# 283 Ping Well said Carolyn!
St. Augustine is the prettiest town in Florida. Good luck!
The Valley is 25% illegal....LA proper is higher. Head down to Huntington Park, 99% latino.
This summer we were in an AMPM down near H Park/Bell border, and the lady counted our change out in spanish. We cracked up and the whole place stopped!
I dont know about that 77% figure...the Census said 43% last week.
That's odd...when I lived in California, I was burglarized twice and carjacked in my own driveway, all during a 12 month period. I haven't had any problems where I live now. Of course, I can afford to live in a nicer neighborhood now, and maybe that's why the people "here" are less criminally-minded than the people "there." But wait, nah, according to your parable, people are the same wherever you go. I guess I can't have a better life here. I and countless others must be deluded.
My apologies for the misunderstanding.I inferred incorrectly you were alluding to something negative about Chinese and Filipinos,two groups who are generally very pro-American and hard working folks.
Again,my apologies for jumping to conclusions.
and if you don't have illegal aliens in your town, you soon will. Illegal immigration is a nationwide problem. We need a federal government that has a backbone and willing to do something about it.
Best wishes!
Anybody here really prepared to get down to brass tacks and touch the taboo subject of the overall decay of the United States as a whole, i.e. Third Worldization, Middle-Class Hollowing Out, Massive Illegal Immigration and all its accoutrement, and which overseas areas will, in the future, for tax purposes, freedoms, education, quality of life, becomce even more preferable than the United States on the whole.
You are correct!
Yes, but you see, unlike California, I can afford to live in the nicest parts.
What city are you planning on relocating to?
And I hope you get out soon...
Go Devils!
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