They must want electricity like they’ve heard about in camp fire stories.
I can’t tell if this is just a joke about their electricity, or a joke about their electricity which happens to include a pun about the Camp Fire fires that started due to faulty electric transmission wires… if the latter, I salute you.
- in snow storm stories
That’s ignorant as shit
It been fucking hillarious seeing people doubletalk California demographics.
“Everybody keeps leaving California because the cost of rent and housing keeps going up!” which feels true but like…
It has big “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” energy.
There have always been more people entering than leaving lol.
If the headline was the only thing you read, yes. The article actually says it still has a net loss every year.
It even says it still has a net 60k/year net loss to Texas alone.
The article’s missing headline was driven from the single point that of the people moving to Califorinia, the largest percentage was from Texas.
Which makes sense given the size of Texas. I would think the percentage would reflect the relative proportion of people in the states.
Daily reminder that Texas sucks. So do Republicans.
Similar thing is happening here in Washington. A lot of people from Austin moving here because Texas politics are terrible.
Georgia ain’t great but it’s orders better than Texas and I bailed for Washington last year. Had to get out while the getting was good
I often work in rural TX. I’ve had a number of Texans suggest I ought to move there, cause muh freedums. Yeah, I target shoot a little, but I’m lefty as hell. I talk about guns sometimes to deflect questions about my politics.
They are so full of themselves. They think because great grandpa was a cowboy that they inherit all his toughness. I don’t know how grandpa lived, but I know Texans today live mostly in air conditioning and love shopping, huge portions, and convenience. They’re fully convinced there is nowhere better on Earth. But no, TX sucks and I’d never move there.
Texas politics are homo- and transphobic. Gladly a certain Trans Texan Twitch streamer left the state for safety.
The media publishes an article about Texans moving to California or Californians moving to Texas like every other day. What angle do you want?
https://www.latimes.com/california/why-californians-are-moving-to-texas-123
https://ktla.com/news/california/more-california-residents-moved-to-texas-in-2021-report-says/
https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-california-austin-texas-10-things-i-wish-i-knew-2021-1
https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/moving-services/moving-to-texas-from-california/
This is going to be really interesting to watch. If you look at the data over some decades, California has had cycles of net influx and net loss of people. We were losing people at a low rate for a bit before the pandemic, but it really increased drastically during it. Most people think it’s because the availability of remote work surged, so people kept their salaries and went to places where the cost of living is cheaper. But with more companies wanting at least some in-office days, how many might come back? Should be interesting.
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
Yeah, the polarization between red and blue states has become pretty frightening, honestly. It’s been theorized that the draconian laws against personal rights and freedoms in some red states is an actual Republican strategy to chase away liberals and moderates to prevent those states from turning purple, which is a real possibility for the ones with big population centers that tend to be blue.
Here’s the article that that graph came from, and it has a bit of analysis with some other data, though maybe not what you’re looking for.
But but but I was told during the pandemic that these blue states were going to die because everyone was leaving for FREEDOM in TX and FL.
Hey look it’s me in the future.
Best place to be homeless at
I get that this a quip, but it actually is. Weather patterns are a lot more forgiving of the un sheltered. To the point where other states will send their homeless to us. As if we weren’t putting enough people out.
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