California, there I went

SF Gate ^ | December 14, 2006 | editorial

[Lorianne]

FOR THE first time, the number of people moving out of California outnumbered those moving in -- during a supposed economic expansion. It isn't over yet, either -- demographers expect this trend to continue, probably for several years.

The loss isn't a large one. The California Department of Finance recorded a net loss of about 29,000 people from 2004-05, and it expects that the numbers for 2005-06 will be comparable. But it does cut across most ethnic groups -- whites, Latinos and African Americans, with only Asians showing a net gain -- and has hit families particularly hard, if faster-than-predicted school enrollment declines are to be believed.

[SF Republican]

It was an old joke, everyone wants people to stop moving to California the day after they arrive here. In other words I am where I want to be, but you should not come it will get to crowded.

[SF Republican]

We do have a great economy rolling and with the "modern age" of telecommuting, it really does not matter where you live so you may very well be right. We have a major client that kept his operations here but moved to Montana and took his trusted secretary with him because they both were fine with leaving the San Francisco Bay Area. After three years he says it has not affected his business at all and he loves the 5 minute commute to his office.

[RockinRight]

Could it be the liberal policies, taxes, real estate costs, illegals, or traffic?

Not knocking CA necessarily, Reagan was after all from there, but the state does have a LOT of problems from what I see from my Midwest perspective.

[RockinRight]

109 years?? WTF?

[RockinRight]

The Boise example is especially astounding!

[RockinRight]

Perhaps they should do this:

[RockinRight]

VA has the added problem of being close to DC, where a lot of the people vote Democrat to protect their cushy government jobs.

Not as if the GOP would actually CUT them anyway, but that's another topic...

[maineman]

California is wonderful. I was stationed in Ft.Ord and took full advantage of what the State had to offer...surfing, skiing and girl watching. I would live there in a New York Minute.

[ninergold3]

My husband worked in the documentation area of a medical device company. He looked for quite sometime to find something to do here. He has a 45 minute commute into Reno but it is NOTHING like a 45 minute commute in the Bay Area.

I don't have a paying job but I do the stay @ home mom thing. I also get to work in my son's 1st grade classroom, I'm our church secretary and am involved in various other church groups.

The only thing I thought I'd miss were my friends. However, after we left I realized that they weren't really friends at all. It became an "out of sight - out of mind" thing. Kind of hurtful but what can you do? We are amazed at the difference in people in a smaller town.

I hope you are able to make your dream come true. =)

[RockinRight]

Depends on your line of work. In some lines of work, the decreased pay is MORE than made up for by much cheaper real estate and other costs. In other lines of work it's not.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Read post #20.

[RockinRight]

Gotcha.

[Vision]

Gotcha. Since I hear terrible things about CA I didn't know if you were serious or not.

So you love it huh?

[SF Republican]

So you love it huh? Absolutely; business climate is great and diverse, nature is wonderful, from our home in San Francisco, we can be in Tahoe or Yosemite in 4 hours, Santa Cruz or Napa Valley in one hour. The weather is my favorite part, I grew up in Texas with 100 degree June July and August, waking up at 6am and its 98 degrees - no mas. Granted we live about 6 blocks from the coast but it is seldom below 50 or above 65 all year long. The occasional 40 or 80 degrees is very odd. I would recommend anyone starting out or starting over to go west.

[Bernard Marx]

Then, they relocate to states such as Colorado and Texas and the first thing they want to do is re-make these states into the image of the state they just left. Go figure....

How do you think California got into the current mess? All the East Coast liberals moving here, remaking the place into the same thing they'd left! Just think Nancy Pelosi:

Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., served as Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years, after representing the city for five terms in Congress. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as Mayor of Baltimore. Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. in 1962.

Or Barbara Boxer: born Barbara Levy in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 11, 1940; attended public schools in Brooklyn; graduated, Wingate High School 1958; B.A., Brooklyn College 1962.

We've got a few home-grown radicals like Jerry Brown but most of our Communist nutcases like Tom Hayden and his crowd migrated here from the East.

[Clintonfatigued]

It's no big secret what part of the state is the most populated.

[RockinRight]

And?

[Clintonfatigued]

Because of that, people will continue to leave California. Big Government, politically correct liberalism has ruined the state.