job growth in the private sector in California had stalled BEFORE the financial crisis of 2008 and in spite of the housing boom; business people leave, illegal immigrants arrive; some towns in the Inland Empire area have illegal immigrant majorities in the local K-12 schools, many whose parents are working on the cash economy for legal Mexicans employing them and property tax revenues and values keep declining;
the only thing keeping some people I know there from leaving is their homes are too far under water
China’s state-capitalist economny is growing too; I wouldn’t move there.
BTW wuli, many of this Hispanics who moved into areas formally owned or rented by blacks, are pretty hard working folks. For the past 10 years or so there is and has been a major move by many blacks from the west coast to states eastbound and southbound. I am able to provide stats.
CA has sent hundreds of utility workers, search and rescue folks and hundreds of other first responders to your state to aid. In fact, many businesses in CA had taken up collections for your state to the tune of big $ dollars. I'm hoping others from NJ, are not as uninformed as you.