Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 5/27/2023
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.”
More:
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=55000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakAyNtrE_E&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.battleswarmblog.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
