[ryderann]

With all the people and companies fleeing CA, who is buying up the empty facilities, office buildings, homes. The Chinese?

[Pelham]

Most likely China. Houses here in SoCal are still getting full cash offers and that’s not something Americans are able to do.

[pacificus]

No one is buying the vacant factory buildings, they just sit and rot.

Well some are converted into grow houses for MJ dispensaries....aka pot shops.

[Grampa Dave]

With all the people and companies fleeing CA, who is buying up the empty facilities, office buildings, homes. The Chinese?

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

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/12/09/real-estate-prices-soar-during-pandemic-climbing-25-in-parts-of-california/

Many of these home buyers are escapees from Sillycon Valley or the LA area, Chicago and the NY City area.

[Shortstop7]

Probably like Illinois, just empty buildings everywhere.