Despite the so-called "Great California Exodus" that has seen residents leave the state in droves, mostly because of the high cost of living, there are plenty of people bucking the trend and making their way to the Bay Area.
This is going to be really interesting to watch. If you look at the data over some decades, California has had cycles of net influx and net loss of people. We were losing people at a low rate for a bit before the pandemic, but it really increased drastically during it. Most people think it’s because the availability of remote work surged, so people kept their salaries and went to places where the cost of living is cheaper. But with more companies wanting at least some in-office days, how many might come back? Should be interesting.
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
Yeah, the polarization between red and blue states has become pretty frightening, honestly. It’s been theorized that the draconian laws against personal rights and freedoms in some red states is an actual Republican strategy to chase away liberals and moderates to prevent those states from turning purple, which is a real possibility for the ones with big population centers that tend to be blue.
This is going to be really interesting to watch. If you look at the data over some decades, California has had cycles of net influx and net loss of people. We were losing people at a low rate for a bit before the pandemic, but it really increased drastically during it. Most people think it’s because the availability of remote work surged, so people kept their salaries and went to places where the cost of living is cheaper. But with more companies wanting at least some in-office days, how many might come back? Should be interesting.
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
Yeah, the polarization between red and blue states has become pretty frightening, honestly. It’s been theorized that the draconian laws against personal rights and freedoms in some red states is an actual Republican strategy to chase away liberals and moderates to prevent those states from turning purple, which is a real possibility for the ones with big population centers that tend to be blue.
Here’s the article that that graph came from, and it has a bit of analysis with some other data, though maybe not what you’re looking for.