Posted on 12/16/2020 9:41:29 AM PST by Rummyfan
It’s hard to say the word “innovation” and not think of California. Technology has paced the state’s growth in everything from agriculture and oil to housing, entertainment, and aerospace. California has always been the harbinger of the American future, the promise of ever-greater economic and social progress. Yet increasingly, many of today’s innovators are fleeing the state. This past week, one half of the company arguably most symbolic of tech development in the state—Hewlett Packard Enterprises—one part of the now broken-up old Hewlett Packard and focused on lucrative areas like cloud computing and IT infrastructure—decided to leave for Houston. Within a week Elon Musk, the latest in the line of truly transformative California tech entrepreneurs, also announced that he would move to Texas, along with Oracle, a Fortune 100 company and global leader in database management. Other recent departures also include more traditional firms as Charles Schwab, McKesson, Bechtel, Parsons Engineering, and CB Richard Ellis.
The corporate exodus accompanies a human one. The state’s population, notes demographer Wendell Cox, is now virtually stagnant, with more people leaving and fewer people coming. Millennials, particularly as they ponder family formation (as we recently demonstrated in a report from Heartland Forward), are following a similar pattern. Today, suggests Cox, California, once the ultimate land of youth, is now aging far faster than the rest of nation.
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Once all the libtards move Cali will be a great place again.
The tech owners and elites are running from California to Texas and ?!
However many of their SillyCon valley employees are staying in California and driving the prices of homes up!
Not everyone in California or the USA is moving to Texas!:
Real Estate Prices Soar During Pandemic, Climbing 25% In Parts Of California:
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
yep, but putting up a prayer-hedge of protection in Jesus’ Name that those who hold to that libtard, destructive group-speak will not be able to spread their ideological pestilence wherever they set their foot. AMEN!
yep, but putting up a prayer-hedge of protection in Jesus’ Name that those who hold to that libtard, destructive group-speak will not be able to spread their ideological pestilence wherever they set their foot. AMEN!
I’m pretty sure that much of the microprocessor tech come outta TeyHoss.
Good times in CA ended probably 15 years ago. Even then it was well on it’s way to becoming unbearable. The days of CA being cool and fun are way over.
I recall when I was in CA, I thought the same thing, that RE was going to go up forever. Then 2007 hit.
I would guess all the millions in CA who’ve lost their jobs, careers, businesses, and opportunities over the past 11 months will eventually catch up to the RE market in CA. Then again, if Joebama is successful in overthrowing Trump, maybe he’ll start up the never ending flood of Muslims and foreign nationals into CA once again, and they’ll keep it propped up for a while longer.
The only question is, “What took you so long?”
Respectfully, it is the mostly conservatives who are leaving. The ‘tards are noticing that standards are sinking, but, as usual, haven’t a clue, as to why. Thanks.
I always hear that it is conservatives who are leaving, but it never seems to end up that way in the voting booth.
In the last two years I know of 15 friends, associates, or neighbors who left for AZ, NV, TX, and TN. None of them has been even slightly liberal. Of course that is from once reliable red OC. Thanks for your reply.
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