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Los Angeles definitely has infrastructure issues, but that comes with the territory. Its a 13 million person metropolitian area. What's Austin's excuse?
The world does not revolve around you!
I'm pretty sure I explained the problem clearly. Our Progressive tax & spend other peoples money, city council.
Nope, total inflows match total outflows to this day. We experience a lot of immigration especially from eastern Europe and Asia. That's why the population keeps going up instead of falling.
BTW the 2000-2008 era was mostly just poor people or retirees leaving the state. Poor people because they couldn't afford to buy a house given the run up in prices while retirees were cashing out their equity built up over 30 years hoping to find some where cheap to spend their golden years before they die. As far as middle class and upper class people, that population boomed. This right wing narrative has been debunked so many times on the California subforum that most people don't even bother any more and simply refer them to one of the many previous threads.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but those are the facts of the matter.
Pete Wilson alienated the fastest growing demographic, and the chickens came home to roost.
And a certain Mitt Romney did not learn the demographic lesson either.
You'll notice that despite the right wing talking point old Mitt decided to move to California after he lost the election. Rich people want to live in nice places thus Romney got a $12 million beach house in La Jolla which he then tore down because he thought it was too small and is now building a $58 million beach house. The main reason prices for land are so high in California is because so many people with money want to live here. It's just a basic supply and demand issue so poor people get priced out and when they do those poor people move to somewhere less desirable, less in demand, because that's the best they can afford.
There is no shame in moving some where you can afford but the OP needs to stop pretending that those people didn't want to stay, if they had the money most of them would instantly move back, but they were just priced out due to more people with more money out bidding them.
I won't weigh in on the liberal/conservative facet of this post, but the exodus is a documented fact. In my neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, three different families have moved from California. All upper middle-class professionals who report the same issues: Sky-high taxes, crumbling social order, and a legislature that seems ill-equipped to deal with reality. My neighbor across the street sold his house in Glendale and bought his house here outright with the equity, and still had money left over. Whenever their friends come to visit from LA, they scoop up the real estate listings and drive around.
Hopefully they'll tell all of their friends how wonderful Alabama is, so they'll stop coming to Texas and crowding us and overpricing our real estate.
Since the 90's Silicon Valley has made the transfer to Austin.
LOL! Your posts are always hilarious and while I love laughing at your delusions this one I feel I simply must correct because you're so far away from reality. Austin isn't a fly on a pig's butt when it comes to funding for high tech start ups.
You'll notice that the Bay Area produces more venture capital for start ups then the ENTIRE rest of the country combined. You'll notice the #2 region in the country is Southern California and while San Diego is definitely a third tier city when it comes to venture capital but it never the less produces more than the ENTIRE state of Texas all by itself. Texas simply doesn't do start ups well and it does high tech even worse.
We need a pat on the head smilie because your delusional ravings deserve no other response.
Hey Bentbow! I just did the math and it turns out Austin gets just 5% of the venture capital funding the Bay Area gets so don't you feel stupid now claiming "Silicon Valley has all moved to Austin"? You should. You really should feel stupid.
That is if you include food stamps, which the people of California have decided that it is important for people to have access to food. But that is more of a States issue, and I am sure you are one who would agree that states should be allowed to decide what is right for the people of their own state.
Agreed. Eventually though the bubbles growing in these "must live" cities will burst.
People have been making that claim since the first city was built in Mesopotamia way back win. We're still waiting for it to happen though and people still find reasons why cities make sense to this very day.
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