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Everyone is leaving California. It’s been written again and again, so frequently since the COVID-19 pandemic, that it MUST be true. Even this publication is guilty of chronicling the state’s population fluctuations. Still, the outflow that occurred in 2020 and 2021 has largely rebounded, and data supports the fact that most of the movement happened within the Golden State itself. Yet politicians, the media and the internet at large continue to bullhorn through it all: California residents can’t leave the state fast enough. “They seek what California no longer provides them: reasonable housing prices, little crime, uncongested roads, more traditional...

About 100,000 more people moved away from California in 2011 than relocated to the Golden State, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.In recent years, unemployment in the state has skyrocketed, while the cost of living has increased.So, where are these Californians going? The Census Bureau calculated that the most popular destination is Texas, with 58,992 residents relocating there along with a number of California companies.Arizona was next on the list, with 49,635 people moving, then Nevada, Washington, and Oregon.Although in smaller numbers, others are still relocating to the Golden State. Texans make up the largest number...

Here’s a bit of good news: California’s economy is improving! Of course it is not true and this pronouncement comes from a liberal think tank, but hey it sounds so good doesn’t it? What’s laughable is that The Rockefeller Foundation and Yale professor Jacob Hacker claim this “improvement” is proven by the fact that the percentage of California’s families reporting a major economic loss last year dropped by 1.4% which is a whole .10% better than the national average. The fact that California is so economically distressed and has been for so long that there are few families left to...

Wayne Brown gave up $40,000 in income to move from the Bay Area to Kansas. And he feels great. It got to be too much last year for the college information-technology officer: the commute to downtown San Francisco that sometimes took two hours, the housing-price spiral and the high-wire borrowing that paid for it. ``I would find myself sitting in traffic,'' Brown recalled, ``screaming at people.'' When the Kansas job came up in early 2005, Brown and his wife, Teresa, sold two Bay Area homes and happily settled in a suburb of Kansas City. They have never looked back. The...