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The great California Exodus

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Re: The great California Exodus

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Post by scrrr »

After just roughly scanning the graphs I'd speculate that the ageing society plays a role. Which could explain why less liberal states are experiencing a rise of population, while the more liberal states are experiencing a decline.

Which is just my hunch (without any source or proof) that people get more conservative with age. And another one, that they prefer to live in places with like-minded folks.

Just wild guessing though. I am not even from America.

Re: The great California Exodus

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Post by antidoh »

scrrr wrote: post #3

After just roughly scanning the graphs I'd speculate that the ageing society plays a role. Which could explain why less liberal states are experiencing a rise of population, while the more liberal states are experiencing a decline. Which is just my hunch (without any source or proof) that people get more conservative with age. And another one, that they prefer to live in places with like-minded folks. Just wild guess…

“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”

― Winston S. Churchill

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/95528-show-me-a-young-conser...

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Post by seiji »

rdl wrote: post #2

Seriously considering Seattle or Las Vegas, or farther afield, Hawaii or New Zealand, in 2013+.

If I had to put places in order, I'd go with: NYC, Barcelona (May-July), Seattle (August), Austin (not summer).

Re: The great California Exodus

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Post by seiji »

At the high end of moving out (rich people), California is unappealing because it's budgetfucked. Education, transportation, public services, and everything else will suffer for a long time. This leads to their crazy high state income tax and crazy high sales taxes and municipalities doing insane additional taxes for businesses on top of everything else.

The Bay Area may be the best place to create Show Me Your Food 13.0, but I think you can build things elsewhere with nicer conditions.

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Post by stevejohnson »

antidoh wrote: post #4
scrrr wrote: post #3

After just roughly scanning the graphs I'd speculate that the ageing society plays a role. Which could explain why less liberal states are experiencing a rise of population, while the more liberal states are experiencing a decline. Which is just my hunch (without any source or proof) that people get more conservative with age. And another one, that they prefer to live in places with like-minded folks. Just wild guess…

“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.” ― Winston S. Churchill http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/95528-show-me-a-young-conser...

This quote doesn't add to the discussion and is also incorrectly attributed to Churchill.

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/qu...

Re: The great California Exodus

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Post by kungfooey »

seiji wrote: post #5
rdl wrote: post #2

Seriously considering Seattle or Las Vegas, or farther afield, Hawaii or New Zealand, in 2013+.

If I had to put places in order, I'd go with: NYC, Barcelona (May-July), Seattle (August), Austin (not summer).

Sure, I'm biased because I moved here from NYC, but also check out Nashville. You can live like a Columbian drug lord on NYC (or California) freelance rates.

Re: The great California Exodus

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Post by mjg59 »

The Manhattan Institute is an explicitly conservative political organisation. That doesn't inherently invalidate any of the conclusions they draw, but readers should be aware that they have been made with a pro-free market, anti-big government mindset. Others may draw quite different conclusions from the same facts.
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