When People Leave Los Angeles, Where Do They Go? (Oakland: houses, neighborhoods)

[Woof Woof Woof!]

Thanks everyone for your responses!

I know a lot of people are leaving. Just wondering where the new hot areas are.

Woofers

[Lake Conroe resident]

Originally Posted by Woof Woof Woof!

Thanks everyone for your responses!

Originally Posted by Woof Woof Woof!

I know a lot of people are leaving. Just wondering where the new hot areas are.

Woofers

They're moving out of state to places like Co, Tx, SC, NC, Az & Nv. Half the people I run into here in Tx are from CA.

[00molavi]

Well, I can assure you they are not coming to OC! We have negative population "growth" too.

I think if you find a job that pays 20% less in an area with 50% lower cost of living then you will move. For most we are stuck in CA because of family ties and similar issues.

[BennyPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Lake Conroe resident

They're moving out of state to places like Co, Tx, SC, NC, Az & Nv. Half the people I run into here in Tx are from CA.

I run in to plenty of Texans here in CA.

[lamexican]

Cali has people from all walks of life and they persue the lifestyle they desire! I moved to New York City and there are tons of people that have relocated from Cali here!

[jc76]

Originally Posted by Woof Woof Woof!

Thanks everyone for your responses!

I know a lot of people are leaving. Just wondering where the new hot areas are.

Woofers

This little mass of sheer abyssness called Indiana has a fair amount of SoCal transplants. I see California License plates all the time too. One man and his wife i spoke with were lifelong L.A. county residents, a few years ago they sold their modest home for 550K, moved here and bought a mansion on the river for 200K and invested the rest. They work out of their home now and are pretty well of. They said in CA they could never get ahaed. They still go out there a few times a year.
Basically they sacrificed the sun, dry roads, dry shoes, and staying currant with the world for the easy livin here in the abyss. I don't get them really. I would never leave CA for the nothingness of the midwest If I had a place.

[rotorholic]

I left to dallas....

[majoun]

Portland's also attracted a pretty large number of Angelenos ; no big surprise because it's known for having the highest quality of life of any US city.

The Angelenos who've gone to Texas seem to congregate in Austin.

I suspect those who've gone to places in the heartland are people who have roots in those areas, or who left those areas to go to L.A. in the first place. Even before the giant wave of immigration, native Angelenos were always a minority. The L.A. that my mom grew up in back in the 1950s probably had no more natives than L.A. today, the difference was that the majority of transplants were from other places in the US (and from talking to fellow natives as an adult, I didn't realize how many people born in mid 20th century L.A. had parents from the UK!)

[majoun]

There are a few Angelenos like myself who are in the Bay Area.

However, the cost of living and rents is equally high, and the level of crime, disorder, and social tensions - probably for the first time ever - seems higher. IMO the Bay Area might experience a "ruder awakening" this recession than L.A. From observing what it's like here, and then comparing it with my recent visits to L.A., SF and vicinity feel MUCH more like immediate pre-riots SoCal than current SoCal does. The Bay Area got off relatively easy during the last economic downturn and L.A. was hit severely ; I don't think the Bay Area will get off so easy this time. Just look at what recently occurred in Oakland. There's definitely more tension than in L.A. right now. Gang activity is soaring, including in SF itself, and there seems to be a grudging consensus that L.A.'s actually safer...

[Lake Conroe resident]

Originally Posted by BennyPhoenix

I run in to plenty of Texans here in CA.

I'm sure you run into people from just about every walk of life there, I know I used to.