For sure they're not moving to NJ or Louisiana. Probably not Illinois or Michigan either. Definitely not Massachusetts.
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.
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!
Thinking about going back myself.
Don't Californicate Oregon...sorry too late! Bezerkly North now.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Cue the "California Rest in Peace" song by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I guess this explains why when I recently called a government office in California, I got a recording that told me to "press 1 for English, press 2 for a list of moving companies."
We escaped four years ago and have no regrets. Except, I see too many California license plates around here now, and I can't sneeze without sneezing on an ex-Californian. It's fine as long as they don't bring any big libby hippy ideas with them. When people here find out I'm from California I ask them not to hold it against me. We'll be having our first child soon and I'm glad he WON'T be born in California.
I was born and drug up in Kansas. Trust me, I'm not going back. I may, however, sell my house here, go elsewhere, be able to pay cash for a better home and retire 10 years early.
$40,000.00 a year income isn't alot in SF.
Just try calling a U-Haul in CA asking to rent a truck or trailer, they'll tell you they hardly have any available since they are all heading out of CA. Then try calling a U-Haul in another state, telling them you want to rent a "one-way" to CA and they'll even give you a discounted rate just to get more equipment moved to CA...for everyone bailing out.
Not scientific of course, but it just goes to show how massive the exodus is.
sigh.....I guess it is just impossible for the MSM to use the word illegal.
A lot of conservatives have been picking up and leaving. I don't understand why anyone would want to live in urban centers or states with high property, income, and sales tax rates especially if you aren't making over 100k and even then if you have a family you'd be barely able to afford a mortgage and be up to your ears in debt. It doesn't make any sense at all unless you value the urban lifestyle which I don't.
I was considering moving closer to DC but the cost didn't make sense when I could just as easily commute and stay in a hotel when needed. That said, I think we are going to see a greater stratification of left versus right as conservatives move to more politically and economically inviting areas.
I'm sure they took thier left-wing looney tunes voting habits with them. I'm in Richmond, VA. I've seen 1st hand what these people do. I'm in Real Estate and have talked with literally hundreds of people from NJ/NY/MD/MA that moved here to escape the huge tax bases etc. They cried and moaned about how wonderful Boston used to be. Now we have Jim Webb, US Senate & Tim Kaine, Governor as a result.