Californians continue to flee the no-longer golden state, and many of them end up in Texas. ABC7 News in the bay area interviewed eight who fled as to why California dreaming has become a nightmare.
Some takeaways:
“In the span of two years, California’s population has dropped by more than a half million people.”
“I was assaulted twice on the BART.”
“I’ve never had a house this large in my life.”
“It is definitely a lower cost of living in Texas.”
“The home that I once remembered and knew back in the 1980s and the 1990s, a lot of that’s gone now.”
“Home prices are lower [in Texas], and there’s plenty of job opportunities.”
The former mayor of Ventura, CA moved to Texas in 2014. “One of the things I greatly fear about Venture and elsewhere in coastal California is that it’s not a place for everybody anymore, and especially not a place for young families. It’s a place basically where older, affluent people now live. And I think something has really been lost there.”
“Home prices in Texas cost less than half of homes in California. U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that the middle and lower classes are leaving California at a higher rate than the wealthy.”
“Many who have left in recent years say they simply couldn’t afford to stay.”
A mother with six kids says it’s simply impossible to afford a house large enough in California. “I feel like the California Dream was the American Dream in my grandparents’ and parents’ era. That’s just not possible for our generation to live that American Dream in that state anymore. It’s so expensive that you’re struggling every month just to get by and pay your rent and your mortgage and put food on the table.”
Food truck owner: “The reason why I left California, honestly, is just the cost. The cost of living, the cost of running a business, regulations.”
Mention of the Move to Texas Facebook group for Californians looking to get the hell out of their failing state.
“Some people are moving to Texas because of their conservative values.”
” It seems that the environment, politically in California, has just been a one-party rule. Republicans have done absolutely nothing to change anything in any way, it seems to me. They’ve been cowardly about it.”
“It’s very sad in Contra Costa County. You can’t even be conservative. You kinda have to hide if you’re conservative almost.”
Man whose family moved to California from South Korea in the 1970s: “Unfortunately my parent’s grocery stores were burned down in the L.A. riots, two of them, near Koreatown. And so that was, you know, quite a traumatic experience for my family.”
“I definitely think [California] is mismanaged. We moved primarily because of the crime. And, for me, it was not only the crime but also, you know, the amount of homelessness, needles. I was assaulted twice on the BART. Those particular assaults I really do think it had to do with the same kind of violence that I saw in the Bay Area towards Asian Americans.”
“I miss the ocean but not enough to move back.”
What would it take to move back to California? “Number one, the whole state would have to clean up. Get some of those rotten politicians. Be tough on crime again, like you should. People’s attitudes would just have to change. But for the most part, I really am happy here.”
“My commute is seven minutes to work.”
“Yeah, we definitely have not even contemplated moving back. We are just really happy out here.”
One party Democratic rule has hollowed out the state of California, and the people Democrats used to claim to represent (the working poor and the middle class) are the ones most harmed by the graft, corruption, incompetence, and radical social justice-engendered spiraling crime rates.
Until that changes, expect people to continue to flee California.
““One of the things I greatly fear about Venture and elsewhere in coastal California is that it’s not a place for everybody anymore, and especially not a place for young families. It’s a place basically where older, affluent people now live.”
In this one quote is encapsulated California’s demise. It’s like seeing the future. Wealthy elderly elite liberal boomers in Orange County and Contra Costa and elsewhere are going straight back to feudalism. There will be no middle class, only people like the Pelosis surrounded by an ocean of chattel Mexicans cutting their grass and cooking their meals until those Mexicans save enough to leave also. Only the people like the Pelosis and the heroin-addicted former-middle class from other parts of the country they’ve hollowed out with their policies will remain.
California is a dead state walking, twiddling its thumbs and humming Beach Boys tunes while sucking down an avocado-banana smoothie in depends waiting for 3pm to roll around for the early-bird special. When it comes time to pay the piper they’ll get a federal bailout too, just watch.
““One of the things I greatly fear about Venture and elsewhere in coastal California is that it’s not a place for everybody anymore, and especially not a place for young families. It’s a place basically where older, affluent people now live.”
In this one quote is encapsulated California’s demise. It’s like seeing the future. Wealthy elderly elite liberal boomers in Orange County and Contra Costa and elsewhere are going straight back to feudalism. There will be no middle class, only people like the Pelosis surrounded by an ocean of chattel Mexicans cutting their grass and cooking their meals until those Mexicans save enough to leave also. Only the people like the Pelosis and the heroin-addicted former-middle class from other parts of the country they’ve hollowed out with their policies will remain.
California is a dead state walking, twiddling its thumbs and humming Beach Boys tunes while sucking down an avocado-banana smoothie in depends waiting for 3pm to roll around for the early-bird special. When it comes time to pay the piper they’ll get a federal bailout too, just watch.
More California transplants to Texas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrH_cPby2Ug&t=17s
Here’s hoping that the Golden State migrants left their California voting habits behind.
Just so’s ya’ll remember what made it so that you wanted to move. Quit trying to fix things that are none of your business.