Posted on 09/29/2012 4:35:29 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Due to high taxes, burdensome regulations, lack of public sector reforms, and a lackluster job climate, more people have left California than come to the state since 2005, according to a comprehensive study by the Manhattan Institute released on Tuesday, suggesting California is no longer “perceived by most Americans as the land where dreams come true.”
In the report, titled “The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look," Tom Gray and Robert Scardamalia found Californians have fled to states like Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, and Georgia because those states have a better economic climate with less taxes and regulation.
The report found that between 1960 and 1990, 4.2 million Americans moved to California and helped accelerate California’s booming economy. Since 1990, though, California has lost nearly all of that gain, with net domestic out-migration averaging 225,00 residents a year. Between 2000 and 2010, out-migration has resulted in lost income of 5.67 billion to Nevada, $4.96 billion to Arizona, $4.07 to Texas, and $3.85 billion to Oregon.
The study found that “if all these trends continue, California may find itself in a situation similar to that of New York and the states of the midwestern Rust Belt in the last century, which have seen populations stagnate for decades, or even fall.”
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Actually, Ohio and North Carolina.
Those people are killing this state.
The problem with people who complain about things they have no idea about is that they say the stupidest things imaginable and cause the greatest confusion.
bkmk
“I fled California in 1979...”
Same here. It was a cesspool even then, full of serial killers and run by Jerry Brown and Rose Bird. It was so unsafe I didn’t dare let my wife go to the market by herself after dusk. Their environmental regs required us to put strange smog devices on our cars that wrecked them. It was a freaking toilet and hasn’t gotten any better. And the fools even brought back Brown.
Then you can stay, help build barricades
and leave your LibTurd Voting crap in California!
*but not* I hate it when my fingers get too fast for the words.
In-N-Out is in Texas now, too.
Tommy’s is reportedly considering moving as much of their customer base has moved here.
All you can do is hope that the people who fled Democrat California aren’t the same scumbags who voted in the Democrats who fouled their nest in the first place.
Thank goodness California's Democrat state legislature is rushing to pass laws dealing with the really important stuff like circumcision, Feng Shui building codes, plastic bags, Happy Meals, faggot history for kindergardners, etc., etc.
No kidding! They can’t DRIVE!!!
Massholes are everywhere! California was destroyed By Eastern Transplants!
AND they’ll no doubt be bringing their cancer of voting habits with them!
CA has already passed the point of no return in it’s race to 3rd world status. Taxpayers leaving is just a sign of this. Expect this to accelerate.
California is now, in fact, primarily a third world country.
Yup. I remember the 'Welcome to California. Now Go Home' campaign.
I was born, bred here in Orange County, CA..I’ve never left! Mine & hubby’s family here too so it would be so hard to leave but we think about it...thankfully OC is mostly conservative but the illegals are mass producing, Santa Ana now resembles Tijuana.
“Then you can stay, help build barricades (in Texas)”
LOL, thanks. I have no intention of fitting the California transplant stereotype here in Texas. Texas is JUST FINE as it is - and if I didn’t like it, I’d leave.
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