Posted on 12/19/2007 11:17:15 PM PST by BurbankKarl
California's population continued to grow modestly in the last fiscal year despite a significant exodus of residents to other states, according to a state report released Wednesday.
The annual study by the Department of Finance showed that 89,000 more people moved out of California than moved here from elsewhere in the United States. California's population did grow in fiscal 2007 -- but the growth rested on births and the arrival of more than 200,000 immigrants from other countries.
The shift dovetails with the state's weakening economy and is most likely related, said Howard Roth, chief economist for the Department of Finance.
Those who left, Roth said, were fleeing an economy in which just 5,800 jobs per month were created -- down from more than 20,000 per month the previous year. Jobs were lost in housing, finance, construction and other sectors, and key indicators like the number of automobiles sold were also down, he said.
People who are leaving the state, he said, are probably doing so because they believe they'll do better elsewhere.
"If you're someone in finance and you haven't already been laid off . . . or if you've lost your job here and maybe your house, maybe you're thinking that there are better prospects out there in other states," he said.
The trend toward reduced "domestic migration" -- which began in 2005 and has increased dramatically since -- is a sharp turnaround from nearly a decade of sustained population growth.
In Los Angeles County alone, nearly 115,000 fewer residents came from other states and California counties than moved to other states and counties. The county ended up with a total increase in population thanks to 91,000 births and an influx of 70,000 residents from foreign countries. (The county now has roughly 10,294,000 residents).
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Will the last responsible person leaving the state, please turn off the lights.
Unfortuniately they’re moving to Colorado and bringing their money, crime, and leftist beliefs here. They’re turning this state into the same mess that they created there. Don’t “Californicate” Colorado used to be our model. It’s too late.
Other countries? Really, what “countries” might that be...
The new Mexico City, Sao Paulo, New Delhi, Islamabad, Jakarta, etc. - a slum masquerading as a city, controlled by the liberal elites that live well at the expense of the misery of the teaming masses of poverty-stricken illegal aliens.
It is the middle class that has abandoned all hope and evacuated to higher economic ground.
It happened to Oregon, Washington State, Arizona, Nevada and parts of Texas too. Then again a generation the New Yorkers moved to CA and FL too. ;)
So who’s going to be “the last white farmer in Zimbabwe”?
Who will be the chump who couldn’t read the writing on the wall?
Will the last tax-paying American to leave Kal-ee-fornia please turn out the lights?
Lights will soon be illegal while illegals will be legal.
Ah-nold IS Hans Gruber.
Criminals and leftist moving out? Bad spellers too?
That's a major plus and good news for California!
Lets hope the trend continues.
Yeah - Most of those entering the state just walk in. Or are carried across with(in) their mother.
Very few “move” into CA nowdays.
I’ll bet those that entered the state are real productive members of society and not feeding at the government handout trough. /s
High taxes, high crime, over regulation - it’s a liberal paradise. The only people who want to live there are the people with their hands out.
What was that about reaping what you sow?
The middle class has been fleeing Los Angeles for at least two decades. My family left L.A. and the state around 1990.
Ours was "Welcome to Montana. Now go home!"
Same problems here.
Those who left are the kinds of citizens no state (or country, "Hello, England") can afford to lose,
Hmmm. I noted your profile has a Missouri flag.
There considerably more crime in your biggest city compared to California's biggest city.
As a matter of fact, Kansas City Missouri beats LA in every single major crime category.
Kansas City and Los Angeles Comparative Crime Ratios per 100,000 People
"What was that about reaping what you sow?"
If you don't respond, I'll know your shoe is stuck in your mouth.
Makes me glad I’m on the other side of the country. Except here in Pennsylvania we’re picking up a lot of the drek from New York and New Jersey - - now that the scumbags have fouled those nests and fled, they’re coming HERE and voting Democrat.
You’re comparing a city of 450,000 to a city of nearly 4 million?
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