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Oregon sucks. Don't move here, I mean there. But, Texas is very nice.
Texan here. We welcome y'all with open arms, just please don't turn Texas into the places that you left.
Perhaps you can keep Austin a containment zone for SF outcasts and the rest of Texas will be left alone.
City folk usually aren't fond of sprawling rural areas, so you have that going for you.
We all just have one message though: Please do not turn Texas into the places y'all are leaving. There's a reason y'all are leaving after all.
EDIT: Newcomers: We generally don't care what anyone does or thinks, we only care when people try to force us to conform to their beliefs, including what to do with our money, eg) raising taxes.
Wow, the back-and-forth on upvotes/downvotes is crazy. Sorry, didn't mean for this to be controverisal.
it costs too much to live here because of zoning. zoning is largely driven by local governments, dominated by homeowners who benefit when prices rise.
but california might fix it with sb-827, which would prevent local governments from banning density near transit hubs. california builds https://standupcalifornia.com (this is my site supporting sb-827)
please, if you care about california, learn about these issues and support sb-827!!!
Native Texan here. I and many other Texans I know welcome newcomers with open arms. We all just have one message though: Please do not turn Texas into the places y'all are leaving. There's a reason y'all are leaving after all. EDIT: Newcomers: We generally don't care what anyone does or thinks, we only care when people try to force us to conform to their beliefs, including what to do with our money, eg) raising taxes…
Interesting data, but: "The graph below shows data from the Internal Revenue Service on the movement of income tax filers in and out of California since 1990. (Data on tax filers does not cover the entire population because some people do not earn enough income to necessitate filing taxes.)" It also doesn't cover populations who don't pay taxes, and who get paid under the table.
Democratic states moving into California and Californians mostly leaving for conservative states. Interesting. There are multiple ways to interpret though.
Texas (#1): Solid R
Arizona (#2): R
Nevada (#3): Lean D
Oregon, Washington (#4, #5): Solid D
Colorado (#6): D
Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma (#7, #8, #9): Solid R
Georgia (#10): R
That's 6 R, 4 D.
This chart of U-Haul prices in/out of San Jose (in one form or another) made the news recently. http://www.aei.org/publication/san-francisco-bay-area-experi...