Originally Posted by pdx rick
Originally Posted by perotista
Perhaps Newsom should review his own policies to see if they're the cause of folks leaving California.
Or perhaps Rwingers are sick and of having their racism and bigotry called out, they're moving to be with like minded people. smile

Desperate.
Does anyone bleating the latest Fox News Cali-bashing know HOW MANY people are leaving California the last couple of years?
I do. I know how many.
It was about 275,000 people leaving California last year, up from about 180,000 in the year before the pandemic.
Two hundred and seventy five thousand out of forty million.

Wow, talk about "inflation"...talk about "The Mouse That Roared"....275 thousand will barely be noticed this morning at rush hour, plus let's not forget that California will likely receive an influx of new arrivals, as we always do.
Plus, let's not also forget that there are two cities which are perennially famous for inflows and exodii, New York City and Los Angeles.
They've always played host to such pendulum swings in population because those two cities are where people think they have to go in order "to make it big", out of which a tiny percentage actually DO "make it".
The rest give it a shot for a couple of years and when they wash out, back home they go.
Or...as sometimes happens, they decide to stay anyway and go homeless because after all, the weather ain't so bad.

It's why Sinatra wrote his famous song "New York, New York" and it's why countless pop stars have written HUNDREDS of songs about "broken dreams" in L.A. The backdrop of the broken dreams trope is the foundation of countless novels and movie scripts.
It is hard baked into the American culture.

So bash all you like, bash L.A. and NYC until you get it out of your system.
We're still looking at clogged freeways and long lines out here so there must be a reason why so many are still here.
And yes, rest assured that summer is guaranteed to bring at least one more dystopian sci-fi or horror movie about the hellscape that visits Southern California.
That too is hard baked into the culture and has been for decades.
The paradox of L.A. as both dystopia and utopia is as permanent as the Hollywood Sign.

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