If enough people see this…..maybe more will leave? I can help you with that!
From cnbc.com:
Californians may still love the beautiful weather and beaches, but more and more they are fed up with the high housing costs and taxes and deciding to flee to lower-cost states such as Nevada, Arizona and Texas.
“There’s nowhere in the United States that you can find better weather than here,” said Dave Senser, who lives on a fixed income near San Luis Obispo, California, and now plans to move to Las Vegas. “Rents here are crazy, if you can find a place, and they’re going to tax us to death. That’s what it feels like. At least in Nevada they don’t have a state income tax. And every little bit helps.”
Senser, 65, who previously lived in the east San Francisco Bay region, said housing costs and gas prices are “significantly lower in Las Vegas. The government in the state of California isn’t helping people like myself. That’s why people are running out of this state now.”
Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data, “lower income Californians are the ones who are leaving, not higher income,” said Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research and consulting firm Beacon Economics in Los Angeles.
He said housing is the chief reason people are leaving California, pointing out there are frequently bidding wars for what limited inventory of homes is available.
A USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll of Californians last fall found that the high cost of living, including housing, was the most important issue facing the state. It also found more than half of Californians wanted to repeal the state’s new gas tax, which raised fees by 40 percent.
“The rate at which California has been losing people to other states has accelerated in the past couple of years, in part because of rising housing costs,” said Jed Kolko, chief economist with employment website Indeed.com.
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So in each real estate cycle there are articles like this that come around. A couple booms ago, it was an exodus to the PNW, Seattle mostly. Last time AZ was a hot spot. The question to ponder is: how long after those articles popped up did the bust happen those previous times? I know it is different this time, but….
Oregon was/is a big destination state for boomer’s who’ve had enough of the shenanigans.
Unfortunately, the winters there try to kill them every year, so boom’s wind up heading elsewhere as they decide that shoveling snow, having their car’s engine perpetually covered in moon dust, and looking out their back window to discover their support poodle frozen to the back porch, or cat being disassembled alive by our nation’s symbol of freedom, is not for the retiree looking for ease and tranquility.
Just finished our taxes for 2017 and we’re sending a BIG check to the feds and getting a REFUND from the state! Go figure! đ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmLQa63kQCI
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyPKRcBTsFQ
It’s an interesting time for San Diego and California. A few people I know have been forced to move as the cost of real estate and the cost of living has gone up but not their salaries.
https://youtu.be/Zh_Sz-8zlAY
And as the Dave Senser’s of CA leave, the Internet (I can work from anywhere) kids move in. My newest neighbors pay about $4K a month in rent. Their living area looks like a network TV studio with all screens tuned to different websites. They make tons of money generating ‘fake news’. They’d love to buy a house but they are waiting for a housing crash.
>>> https://youtu.be/Zh_Sz-8zlAY
I’m sure glad I grew up in this era of music. Today, I stopped to buy some gas for the car. Their credit card machine was broken so I needed to go inside to pay for the gas. On the radio (maybe it was recorded) the girl behind the counter was playing some unrecognizable noise. So I asked her “Is that music?” She just took my credit card and smiled as she said “yes”.
“Iâm sure glad I grew up in this era of music.”
imo, Gladys Knight isn’t only an interpretive genius, she’s good ammunition for people trying to prove god exists. stunningly beautiful, talented, elegant. the perfect human.
These are always funny, almost like they don’t know that the population of CA has increased every year for 60 years or more.
daytrip… I don’t know much about Gladys Knight. In fact, I wasn’t much of a music buff back in those days. In the those days, I just wanted to go out with hot girls and drive hot cars. But in these crazy days of Trump, Iraq, and gun violence, I can always go to Youtube and listen to some good music. I really doubt the kids of today will be able to look back to today’s music and remember the good old days.
Gameagent, if youâre interested in doing some catch up listening, you cannot go wrong with the box set sampling library from Atlantic Records. I think it covers from 1947 to 1974. Their artists were major players in the development of rock and roll,even tho many arenât well known today, they were the real deal:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/atlantic-rhythm-blues-1947-1974-box-mw0000676533
You can get them one cd at a time at Amazon and elsewhere, or the whole thing. If youâve never heard it, itâs very educational, as well as awesome. If you like rock, rhythm and blues, youâll like it a lot.
Also, this is one of the great albums by Etta James, and I highly recommend it. Janis Joplin loved her, for good reason:
https://www.amazon.com/Etta-James-Rocks-House/dp/B000002O9D/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1521851765&sr=1-1&keywords=Etta+James+live