The Great California Exodus - Hundreds Of Thousands Flee The State

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by BlackShoe

Here is still another report that reinforces these opinions.
www.ocregister.com/opinion/california-377207-population-migration.html

I hear an echo:

"The families leaving California are the heart of the community and the workforce – upwardly mobile young families. As the middle disappears, the population adopts two modes: an older, wealthier population and a younger, poorer population.


The process becomes self-reinforcing. Employers leave. The tax base deteriorates. School quality deteriorates. The pressure increases for upwardly mobile families to move away."

[BayAreaHillbilly]

It is quite simple. Once upon a time, California, while a bit more urban than the other Western states, was still at the end of the day a Western state. The demographic one finds in the NE US and Great Lakes only existed in limited enclaves but not in sufficient numbers to run the system. Migration changed all that and CA became a typical Eastern / Rust Belt type place albeit in a far geographic setting. But demographically and politically we are nearly identical to the Rust Belt.

Rust Belt II.

[gkfoury]

The problem here is not about the place, seems like it's on the government and its ways. People here are mostly complaining about the government and not the place itself. And I don't see any reason to complain about the place either.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

It is quite simple. Once upon a time, California, while a bit more urban than the other Western states, was still at the end of the day a Western state. The demographic one finds in the NE US and Great Lakes only existed in limited enclaves but not in sufficient numbers to run the system. Migration changed all that and CA became a typical Eastern / Rust Belt type place albeit in a far geographic setting. But demographically and politically we are nearly identical to the Rust Belt.

Rust Belt II.

Nope, it is now the Fools Gold State not the Golden State.

Iron pyrite not iron ore.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by expatCA

Nope, it is now the Fools Gold State not the Golden State.

Iron pyrite not iron ore.

Ironically, Iron Pyrite is an Iron Oxide ... indeed, just a nice and pretty form of rust.

[Leonard64]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Ironically, Iron Pyrite is an Iron Oxide ... indeed, just a nice and pretty form of rust.

Nothing in CA is common, it is all special.