Gavin Noisome should cull this for material to put in his next Calfornia TAXPAYER-FUNDED ad in Florida media. He is, like, the second coming of Justin Trudeau. A perfect follow-on candidate for the DemonRat Party in 2024!
http://news.slashdot.org/story/22/07/31/1757222/why-are-people-moving-out-of-california
A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago analyzed data from a moving company, concluding that 59.4% of the moves in California were out of the state — the second-highest percentage for any state in America (behind only Illinois). And that percentage is growing, reports the Los Angeles Times, since between 2018 and 2019, California had a lower outbound move rate of just 56%.
Citing [s#itty government, taxes, and lots and lots of out of control forest fires] found that droves of Californians are leaving for states like Texas, Virginia, Washington and Florida. California lost more than 352,000 residents between April 2020 and January 2022, according to California Department of Finance statistics [about 15,476 per month].
San Francisco and Los Angeles rank first and second in the country, respectively, for outbound moves ...."California for the longest time has prioritized single-family zoning, ...California is the epicenter of where the housing shortage is so people have no choice but to move elsewhere." California now chooses to deal with this zoning problem by allowing anyone to build a shambles in their back yard, previously zoned for a single house, and welcome more people from Guatemala.
The Times also notes figures from the Public Policy Institute of California showing that the state's population did increase between 2010 and 2020 — but by just 5.8%, "below the national growth rate of 6.8%, and resulting in the loss of a congressional seat in 2021 for the first time in the state's history."
At least part of this seems tied to a sudden curtailing of immigration into California. ...but "Delays in processing migration requests to the U.S. were compounded during the pandemic, resulting in the lowest levels of immigration in decades, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Estimates showed a net increase of 244,000 new immigrants between 2020 and 2021 — roughly half the 477,000 new immigrant residents recorded between 2019 and 2020 and a drastic reduction from more than 1 million reported from 2015 to 2016."
The state is also seeing a dwindling middle class, said Ohanian, who cited a report from the National Association of Realtors,
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