Some thoughts. While a lot of people will continue to live in California despite it’s relative lack of economic freedom (like me, for one, for a while), there’s been a lot of outward migration to Texas.
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Unfortunately some of us are married to aerospace, so we’re stuck here for the forseeable future. I wish I could convince my company to move to Texas.
I live in Colorado and we’ve had our share of California refugees over the years. Many of them are good people but more than a few proved you don’t have to go overseas to be an Ugly America. They come here and bad mouth the place because we don’t have all the free government stuff like they had in California. Eventually, enough of them have managed to come here and change what was largely a conservative state to something quite purple trending blue.
If you want to move somewhere else, leave your failed ideas behind. If California was such a paradise, why did you leave? Quit Californicating Colorado!
Too late for Colorado. Come join us in Utah. It is today what Colorado was in the 70s and early 80s.
Larry, I went to Boulder to visit NIST. I take it that’s your Berkeley, amirite?
Larry J,
you beat me to it!!! I was going to say they’d just screw up TX next.
We have the same problem here in central NC. Our problem here is from NE states. Relocated people act as if those of us who were here before them know nothing, and have let them down because we DON’T have all those services.
On one hand they are glad for fewer and lower taxes, on the other hand they want more libraries, more schools, more city buses, etc. I’m slayed by adults who don’t get the connection between big services, big schools and high taxes.
I did work with one guy from LA a few years ago. He made the folks from the NE look like Moderates! Good luck TX and CO.
In TX and see more and more California tags. You can already see some of their wacky ideas in the larger metropolitan areas.
I’m happy for people to move in and better themselves. And I’ll be the first to tell you that Texas doesn’t have California weather. We also don’t have California environmentalism. You can’t change the former, but you can the latter. Changing the latter still won’t change the former, but it will make Texas an economic disaster just like it did California.
The problem is that many of these people aren’t fleeing Californica or other such Progressive sinkholes, but are being dragged along by their bosses who are. They’d just as soon stay put in those places, and so they don’t appreciate why their job fled from those areas. They want to go back but can’t, and so the next best thing is to turn the place into what they left behind.
California, especially SoCal, is still a great place to live if you have a lot of money and do not have kids. Or if you are very wealthy (worth $10-20 million or more) and can afford to live in, say, Malibu, and send your kids to the most elite of private schools. The coastal areas such as Malibu and Newport Beach are very nice places to live, if you can afford it.
For everyone else, particularly if you are a small business owner, California is not a good place to live.