Thats a debunked myth with plenty of journalists who have already disproved the whole concept parroted by Trumpers.
In fact, the same year California posted a $75 billion budget surplus, Joe Rogan made a podcast saying the state was bankrupt among a “mass exodus”.
Just because slightly more exited California than moved into California, it is still a drop in the bucket.
California’s population is 40 million people. The amount who have left is a drop in the bucket.
Also, California’s economy is the strongest and largest in the nation, and if California was a country, it would have the 5th largest economy in the world.
A few people leaving makes no difference to anyone actually there, I still have a home at the beach and lived in California for decades, it would take millions of people leaving to affect the state negatively.
Ex-Californian here. California has a very cyclical housing market with big runups and big crashes. Every time there's a housing bubble you see the number of people leaving start to rise. There are some right-wing Californians leaving because of politics. But most the people leaving I'm convinced are leaving because there's no chance of owning a home there for an average person. At least not until there's a downturn.
I think a lot of it has to do with Covid too. A LOT of people whose jobs went remote moved to other states, like Tennessee, where they had a lower cost of living but were still making the higher California income.
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u/GymAndGarden Feb 26 '24
There is no exodus.
Thats a debunked myth with plenty of journalists who have already disproved the whole concept parroted by Trumpers.
In fact, the same year California posted a $75 billion budget surplus, Joe Rogan made a podcast saying the state was bankrupt among a “mass exodus”.
Just because slightly more exited California than moved into California, it is still a drop in the bucket.
California’s population is 40 million people. The amount who have left is a drop in the bucket.
Also, California’s economy is the strongest and largest in the nation, and if California was a country, it would have the 5th largest economy in the world.
A few people leaving makes no difference to anyone actually there, I still have a home at the beach and lived in California for decades, it would take millions of people leaving to affect the state negatively.
Plenty of debunked articles to read https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mass-exodus-recent-data-shows-more-people-moving-to-california/