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Old 01-16-2012, 04:45 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Is this necessarily a good thing?

Moving to Calif. is chic again | california, percent, year - Business - The Orange County Register
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Old 01-16-2012, 10:50 AM
 
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Well, aside from your damn cheerful reports that California is apparently not gone off the cliff yet, I find this one depressing ...

Montclair, really, must you continue to shine light on California's potentials? This is not the time nor place for upside! More gloom and doom, please!
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Old 01-16-2012, 11:24 AM
 
Location: California
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First the wolves now this.
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Old 01-16-2012, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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This is just measuring more or less "professional workers"....and yeah it seems that a number of people that left during the housing bubble want to come back now that homes are more affordable.

LA is still packed with young folks from other states chasing highly improbable goals....
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Old 01-16-2012, 12:11 PM
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Smartest college grads/dropouts/kids from anywhere in world have been moving to SV and Manhattan every yr for past many decades...and almost never leave....some leave Manhattan for SV, but very, very few ever choose to leave SV

Only diffce is, in recent yrs, SV is attracting the highest achievers, as entry-level software engineering pay is roughly 2x that of entry-level Manhattan traders and rents in SF are <50% Manhattan rents; and Manhattan income taxes are materially higher than those of CA...top talent tends to flow to wherever are greatest opportunities and best QOL....free markets and choices at work, despite commie regimes in either NYC or CA...
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Old 01-16-2012, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Smartest college grads/dropouts/kids from anywhere in world have been moving to SV and Manhattan every yr for past many decades...and almost never leave....some leave Manhattan for SV, but very, very few ever choose to leave SV
The Silicon Valley makes up a very small part of California...and the idea that all the smartest people flock there is just silly...
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Old 01-16-2012, 08:59 PM
 
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Smartest college grads/dropouts/kids from anywhere in world have been moving to SV and Manhattan every yr for past many decades...and almost never leave....some leave Manhattan for SV, but very, very few ever choose to leave SV

Only diffce is, in recent yrs, SV is attracting the highest achievers, as entry-level software engineering pay is roughly 2x that of entry-level Manhattan traders and rents in SF are <50% Manhattan rents; and Manhattan income taxes are materially higher than those of CA...top talent tends to flow to wherever are greatest opportunities and best QOL....free markets and choices at work, despite commie regimes in either NYC or CA...
I like this person. Everything is about geniuses and billionaires to them.
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Old 01-17-2012, 12:19 PM
 
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Great, more execs, Ivy Leaguers, and other 99%ers (or at very least 90%ers).

It's becoming a two class state.

The elites and the floor scrubbers.
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Old 01-17-2012, 02:21 PM
 
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The article is obviously paid for by desperate Realtors and businesses. No way moving here is making a comeback, unless you're from Mexico, in which case it was never passe.
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Old 01-17-2012, 03:48 PM
 
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That news, if correct, is ashame. I was so happy to see many leaving the state. As was said above it could be the cheery realtors wishing it were so.

I am not sure how "chic" it is to come here if you arent prepared for high joblessness and still expensive real estate.
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