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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For sure they're not moving to NJ or Louisiana. Probably not Illinois or Michigan either. Definitely not Massachusetts.
Californians are migrating to Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona, and are ruining those states as well.
You mean San Francisco. At any rate the ones who left probably took the great conservative ideas that have come out of California with them. The liberals tend to stay put.
Most likely .. sounds kind of like what happened in Philly
They screwed the city up so bad and then left because they didn't like what happen
Quit posting this my wife is going to see it. She keeps emailing me real estate ads from Wyoming and Montana for 8-bedroom 6000 sq ft homes on 40 acres for $800,000.
I'm just not ready to call it quits to this beautiful state full of good people.
They must not be counting the illegals.
With millions of illetgal immigrants destroying the culture and the cost of housing so high that most people will NEVER be able to purchase a house and 2 hour traffic jams, it is no wonder they are leaving. Too often though, they fail to see that it was their own stupid left wing ideas that caused the problems in Californian so they start tryiong to turn their adopted states into mini versions of California.
I moved back to Kansas after 18 years in Los Angeles. $40,000/year in California is nothing.
Unfortunately they are moving and polluting conservative states with liberalism.
If we ever build the fence here in Arizona, it needs to make a turn to the north at the California state line and go all the way up to Nevada. Arizona is rapidly moving from a red state to one of those freaky lavender jobs.
And the rain on January 1st. 2006 should have deterred a few from moving in! LOL!
I was about to say the same thing.
BINGO !
Thinking about going back myself.
They are invading beautiful Arizona like locusts. I hate being stuck in traffic with California license plates all around, not to mention those from the east and the midwest.
Don't Californicate Oregon...sorry too late! Bezerkly North now.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I hear ya, all my family is still back in Minnesota.. not sure if wifey could handle the mosquitos much less the cold tho, Hawaii folks are funny that way..
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