San Diego is bleeding people to Austin.
I wish San Diego would just make it's own state, adopt Texas' taxes and it'd be hands-down the best place to be in the US.
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#22Democratic states moving into California and Californians mostly leaving for conservative states. Interesting. There are multiple ways to interpret though.
Cost of living correlates with urban life correlates with 'liberal'
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#23Far less than it was between 1990-2006, as the source notes; the geographic and income distribution is interesting.
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#24A cursory read of the graphics indicates that people with graduate degrees and higher-paying jobs are forcing the people with less money and less education out, and they are moving to states with lower costs of living.
I'm not convinced this is a bad thing. What's wrong with having a higher educated, higher income populace?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Texan here. We welcome y'all with open arms, just please don't turn Texas into the places that you left.
Austin is already on the path of SV. 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.
> Perhaps you can keep Austin a containment zone for SF outcasts and the rest of Texas will be left alone.
They're definitely more pronounced in Austin. But, (in my opinion: un-)fortunately, both Houston and Dallas are feeling the effects too.
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#26Democratic states moving into California and Californians mostly leaving for conservative states. Interesting. There are multiple ways to interpret though.
Now imagine if California reverses course and enacts conservative-friendly policies - and turns into a red state.
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#27I appreciate the effort that went into making this, but I get really annoyed with analyses like this that show heatmaps comparing highly heterogeneous groups (in this case, states, income groups, age groups, and education groups) that use an absolute scale. Of course absolute migration looks extreme in NY and Texas compared to, say Missouri or Iowa. This would be a much more interesting story if they used a lift metric that controlled for state/group size and/or state/group migration volume.
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#28Interesting that three of the top five destination states (Texas, Nevada and Washington) have no state income tax.
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#29Native 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…
That's not how this works. You're not a "native Texan" but one of millions of American citizens born in the state of Texas. Texas is no more yours than any other citizen's.
There are no second class citizens in the US. If you move to New York, you become a New Yorker. If you move to Texas, you become a Texan. Just like your parents or grandparents did. This is one reason America society is great.
You have no right to tell anyone where or how to live. If you don't like Texas because other people are moving there, you're free to leave.
Welcome to a free country!
P.S.
If you don't like California things, then leave this web site, throw away your computer, smartphone, and most of your modern possessions, also all the crap Hollywood makes.
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#30Texas and Oregon are starting to look pretty nice. Too bad about the cannabis laws in Texas, though. As soon as I persuade the court to terminate my probation I'll consider selling a few properties and getting out of here, too.
Oregon sucks. Don't move here, I mean there. But, Texas is very nice.
He mentioned marijuana, though. I can easily see all 49 other states legalizing pot with Texas being the sole remaining hold out. For the next 100 years.