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Florida jobs are much lower income than the Northeast.
Because most of Texas' migrants are coming from the Northeast. They are moving for lower COL. Gen Y can't survive in the Bay Area, Northeast, or DC.
But the cons will never admit it... NYC was #2 in the country for tech private sector job creation (#1 is Sillicon Valley). Not Texas, not Alabama, not Florida, not Tennessee. New York and California!
California is too expensive and North Carolina's weather is overrated. It is midly warmer than the East Coast, with more oppressive heat in the summer. North Carolina receives snow every year but has poor snow removal.
They go to Florida because it is on the east coast. California is too expensive for retirement. Florida has the warmest winters on the East Coast. It isn't that hard to comprehend. People want to retire and not have to freeze.
You have never visited a liberal state and seen the wealth of public amenities we have at our disposal. My city has a free public concert series in multiple locations every week. We have dozens of miles of inner city bike trails. We have dozens of parks. We have bike lanes. We have extensive public transportation.
Nothing new or liberal there. I live in one of the reddest areas in one of the reddest states and we have all that, plus throw in miles and miles of year-round hiking and biking trails in the mountains and around the lakes.
I took my business and family from metro NY to Virginia, which despite recent elections is still a functional state thanks to a Republican controlled legislature.
Schools are better too thanks to non-union teachers and cost much less due to consolidated districts and non-union teachers.
So this is the race to the bottom I've heard about?
Nothing new or liberal there. I live in one of the reddest areas in one of the reddest states and we have all that, plus throw in miles and miles of year-round hiking and biking trails in the mountains and around the lakes.
Lots of families came from California. That's what was reported in the Austin area based on school attendance.
I imagine it's cheaper to raise a family in Texas than CA. Taxes do play a part in COL though and Texas has no state income tax.
Most California homeowners have enough equity to buy a mansion almost anywhere else - and many do.
You have never visited a liberal state and seen the wealth of public amenities we have at our disposal. My city has a free public concert series in multiple locations every week. We have dozens of miles of inner city bike trails. We have dozens of parks. We have bike lanes. We have extensive public transportation. .
Actually, I've been to every state except Alaska. And to every major city in the USA. I even lived in liberal CA for awhile. Your description could apply to dozens of cities all over the USA. You don't need to be a "liberal" city to have those things.
I like Texas to visit, but it is too corporate. Too many chain restaurants. Too much humidity. Flat boring geography. Not enough parks. I like waterfronts.
I seriously doubt that TX has more chain restaurants than CA. And with dozens of lakes and 450 miles of ocean, we have lots of waterfront property. And tons of parks and parkland. And some mountains and some pine forests, etc.
I'm beginning to think that you have never been to Texas.
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