Posted on 06/17/2024 6:15:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Will the last person to leave California please turn off the lights? Assuming they aren't in the middle of one of California's increasingly frequent brownouts, that is.
Relocation firm moveBuddha looked at searches for 100,000 moves just this year, and five of the top ten were people looking to get out of the Golden State for almost anywhere else. "5 of the top 10 exit metros are in California, the firm reported on Monday. "Los Angeles has the highest interest in outbound moves, with 42% more outbound inquiries than runner-up San Francisco. Per capita, the prize goes to San Francisco."
The Mercury News reported way back in 2012, "California was supposed to have about 40 million people by now, according to population projections made before the Great Recession, but a slowdown in births and immigration has forced the state’s demographers to push back that expected milestone by at least six years."
Instead, Sacramento's Department of Finance estimated that "Forty million people will live in California by the end of 2018 and 50 million by 2048."
Even the revised prediction now looks quaint after reading this report from Planetizen:
“The U.S. Census Bureau reported in March that California’s population as of last July had dropped to an estimated 38,965,000,” wrote George Skelton, Capitol Journal columnist for the Los Angeles Times on April 8. “That’s down by 75,400 in a year — and 573,000 below California’s peak of 39.5 million in 2020.”
California — for the first time in the state's long history of rapid population growth — lost a congressional seat in the 2020 reapportionment. The state could lose as many as five more in 2030.
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Very true. We have a few here even in Florida. But they can’t do much but yell and scream since they are very overwhelmingly in the minority by republicans.
Texas is an interesting case. The libs are moving to Austin, Dallas and Houston. The conservatives are moving to rural counties. I have met a lot of California refugees that are hard core Trump supporters that have kids and wanted to get them out of Krazyfornia.
It couldn’t have anything to do with government run public schools in Texas producing millions of newly indoctrinated young leftist voters every single year. Like what happens in every state...It must be California.
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“ The state could lose as many as five more in 2030.”
No they won’t. The Dems will do whatever is necessary to see that every single illegal alien is counted in the next census AND that they be counted for the purpose of apportioning congressional seats.
It’s always been about that.
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It’s foreign nationals with $. They’ve been flooding into CA for years. Chain immigration. If not for them pouring in the real-estate market would probably tick down quickly. 20 years ago going to the store in S.CA was like going to the U.N. Cafeteria where everyone hates the U.S. and votes against us as a matter of routine. The state and federal government did a number on CA. What is was isn’t coming back, ever.
“It’s all good. Only the taxpayers are leaving.”
I fear you may be wrong about that. Democrats are well known for exporting their voting base to change the demographics of red states. They’ve been doing it for decades. And they will enthusiastically pull up stakes to support their ideological deity.
This^. It's not depopulation. It's replacement.
So? The chances are most escaping Calfreaks are leftst.
CA ia becoming bluer and more 3rd world like everyday.
I just hope Texas ca. hang on with more MAGAs moving to the rural areas than liberals moving to Austin. I think abbots desire for more businesses to come to Texas may be good for economy. But I wonder about longer term politics.
Otherwise known as "Kalifornication".
I’ve read where the deranged California legislature has been trying to devise a scheme to tax you after you move from the state. Once a Californian, always a Californian.
Prayers up for you, Mark.
Not in my neighborhood. Every California refugee I’ve met is a conservative. Only 15% of new arrivals are registering democrat. 75% are registering as Republicans.
Do check out that picture book. There's a LOT of information there.
California west Coast is like a huge pustule loaded with virus and bacteria. When it explodes is sends the virus to other states and infects them. Colorado has been Californicated, now they are moving in on New Mexico.
They’re not like locusts; they’re far more like cancer cells metasticizing into healthy areas of the body politic. After all, their appropriately (but clearly unintentionally) self-described “progressive” movement is very much like the “progressive” disease of cancer which, unless stopped or destroyed, can be fatal.
That’s not good news for the destination states and cities. Californians bring prices and politics. And they don’t know how to drive in the snow.
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