Posted on 09/04/2020 9:00:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The allure of small-town living has catalyzed mass migration from places like New York and California to states like Texas and Florida as Americans grapple with daily life during the coronavirus pandemic.
Since March, city-dwellers shopped for more affordable, spacious living arrangements in suburbs and small cities. Migration is starting to slow down, a recent Yahoo Finance-Harris Poll survey showed, but the shift to small-town living has already radically changed real estate values in the U.S., say experts.
“I actually think we're not appreciating it as big and profound as it actually is. Our joke has been that New York and California are the land of the flee, and Texas is the land of the free,” Ari Rastegar, founder of Rastegar Property Company, an Austin-based real estate investment firm, told Yahoo Finance’s The Final Round.
State government policies like income and business taxes are influencing some people’s decision on where to live and work. Even before the pandemic, less burdensome taxes in Texas drew huge tech companies like Tesla, Oracle, Facebook, Apple and Google — and their employees — to Austin, Texas. “People are coming here [Austin] because there's a place to get a job,” said Rastegar. …
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Okay, but the question is, do the CA/NY transplants bring their crappy politics with them and wreck their destinations?
The people we know who’ve bugged are all conservatives.
Any freedom-loving state would be happy to have them.
“Even before the pandemic, less burdensome taxes in Texas drew huge tech companies like Tesla, Oracle, Facebook, Apple and Google — and their employees — to Austin, Texas. “People are coming here [Austin] because there’s a place to get a job,” said Rastegar. …”
Great news for Texans.
Austin TX has turned liberal, if that tells you anything.
My state is in the top 10 in which to move. I’m researching other states in which to relocate the next few years.
Austin Texas? Maybe a little bit less free than other parts of the Lone Star state.
I just read a story about a State Atty. Gen. in Austin, now fired for the ‘crime’ of making pro-Trump remarks and anti-LGBT remarks on Social Media.
Watch out Texas, your success may turn out like Virginia’s.
I wonder if Austin was that good bit more liberal Dem leaning even in the days of WJC or GHWB.
Okay, but the question is, do the CA/NY transplants bring their crappy politics with them and wreck their destinations?
Generally, they tend to be more moderate, but ultimately they will and do change the politics of their new community to the left.
That is my take.
People who didn’t help make Texas better than others now get to enjoy the benefits of Texas by moving there? No thanks. Texas is full, there is enough people who have fled from other states here.
There goes Texas.
May all of the NYC and Californicators end up in Austin!
Austin will take the place of SillyCon Valley.
That movement has been going on since Trump was sworn in.
We had the steers, now come the queers.
You are right/ Many newcomers are trying to change us
BUT finally we are paying attention and working hard to protect our burbs/
The Big cities have been lost for awhile but the burbs are trying to hang red.
States should have a moratorium on resident requirements to vote. Something like if you move to Texas, you have to wait until the next national election cycle completes before you can register. During that time, you can still vote in the state you moved from.
“Austin TX has turned liberal, if that tells you anything.”
Aren’t all big cities in Texas now run by Rats?
Ask the old timers in Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona.
1. I've said for years that the biggest factor that influences political trends in the U.S. isn't race, demographics or economics. It's urbanization -- and the leftist trends you've seen emerging over the years are nothing more than the side effect of having infantile Americans raised in urban areas where they see themselves as wards of a nanny-state government.
2. People who are fleeing dumps like New York City and Chicago have surely lost a lot of confidence in the government.
Take that for what it's worth.
Austin has long been know as a leftist stronghold in Texas - home of the “Keep Austin Weird” movement. Houston is home to Sheila Jackson Lee - ‘nuf said. San Antonio was still red 10 years ago, but has been a boomtown for the last number of years and is now purple - if not blue.
“States should have a moratorium on resident requirements to vote. Something like if you move to Texas, you have to wait until the next national election cycle completes before you can register.”
Is a Tax Exemption for those new residents included in your plan?
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