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.
--snip--
... 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 ...
With the conservatives moving out of the State, my scheme to give California back to Mexico is looking better.
I agree. And don't just look south. Chinese and Filipinos by the droves.
I took a business trip to California. My host probably told me 150 times how "laid back" folks in California are. And they aren't racist like us from the South.
California is eventually going to implode. You can feel it in the air, and sense it, like the first warm gusts of approaching Santa Ana winds.
At the moment, Governor Arnold is maintaining an uneasy equilibrium. He's become a lot like a Democrat recently, but he (unlike President Bush) doesn't hesitate to proclaim clearly when he's opposed to the most loopy leftwing ideas which regularly rise out of Sacramento - and he'll veto things which are stupid.
Unfortunately, he's likely to be replaced by MEChA alumni Villaraigosa. "Villa-LaRaza", as some refer to him, won't veto (any) of the far-left stupid stuff such as drivers licenses for illegals or even more far-left nonsense, because it's all consistent with the "reconquista" agenda he supports.
If stupid law drives non-Mexicans out, it just helps the reconquista.
Something's gonna give with a resounding "uh oh", sooner than later. Might be a quake which sets the stage, or unrest in Mexico, or a national recession - but the current situation really doesn't feel sustainable.
They're not laid back, they're on drugs.
Californians aren't laid-back...they're self-righteous.
They have those here in Idaho, too. Just remember that you have to heat the place in the winter.
"you said it with such eloquence."
thank you ma'am. when one looks under treachery in the thesaurus, one comes up with many interesting synoyms.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
I'd like Californians to stay right where they are. They can sell their dumpy houses and pay cash for a 5,000 sq/ft mansion on a golf course in my town, and still pocket a few hundred thousand dollars profit.
Then they complain about things like oil drilling.
If you want things to be like California, stay in frickin' California.
(spoken like a true hypocrite who moved from California over 25 years ago. [grin] )
Here in the South we are inundated with people telling us how they did things up North. Do the Californians do the same thing to you?
$100 in the summer ??
Grab it. In a few years it will be worth several million.
"...this lady from new york said to me....i can't understand why you people need all these guns."
that's what pol pot, ho chi minh, adolf hitler, mao tze tung, vladimir lenin, josef stalin said. sixty to one hundred million bodies later, the tired, old, much-smarter-than-thou future despots are saying it again.
(they will never learn to mind their own business)
bump
What's the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee?
:^)
The latter stays.
Seriously, I lived in S.D. for a long time. San Diego, like most of California, was still quite Republican when I left (after all, California elected George Dukemajen (sp?) and Pete Wilson. From what I hear San Diego is still nice but a lot more crowded and expensive like everywhere else in SoCal.
Here in WV you can get a nice house for $160K that would cost at least two mil out there.
A Yankee is just visting. A damn Yankee is one who moved in next door. :-)
Not so in most of Arizona, Enjoy it while you can, it will be in your area soon.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.