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CA: Droves say goodbye to Golden State
Mercury News ^ | 12/10/06 | Mike Swift

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2bsayingbyeoon; caexodus; california; crimigration; droves; foreigninvasion; goldenstate; goodbye; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; invasionusa; landoffruitsandnuts; thirdworldstate
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To: ReagansShinyHair
Yes, but you see, when I lived just across your border in Springfield Ohio, I lived in a dump. And I mean a dump. Crime rate was twice what it is here, library was awful, schools terrible, plus freezing cold, dirty slush, litter everywhere, graffiti, no ocean, polluted rivers, couldn't even fish in the lakes.

Now I live in a NICE part of California. One of the safest cities in the entire country. #1 on and off for years. Right down the street from the Reagan Library. Conservative community. Lots of active republicans.

Maybe it was just bad planning on your part......

301 posted on 12/12/2006 10:24:15 AM PST by Hi Heels (God bless you, ZM. Keep fighting.)
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To: Hi Heels
Maybe it was just bad planning on your part......

Maybe the part of Ohio you lived in was bad planning on your part.

302 posted on 12/12/2006 11:17:13 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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To: ReagansShinyHair
I know you are but what am I?

Kinda sums up this topic for me.

303 posted on 12/12/2006 4:18:29 PM PST by Hi Heels (God bless you, ZM. Keep fighting.)
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To: My2Cents

Hoy now, not everyone and everything from California is bad ... we gave y'all Reagan for goodness sake!


304 posted on 12/12/2006 4:21:00 PM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: IrishRainy; All

Phoenix area... I rather have the heat than the cold..


305 posted on 12/12/2006 6:29:13 PM PST by KevinDavis (Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
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To: KevinDavis

I'm in Scottsdale, so we'll kinda be neighbors. Welcome!


306 posted on 12/14/2006 12:33:35 AM PST by IrishRainy (The only way BJ Clinton would have nailed bin Laden is if Ossama had been a White House intern.)
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