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If the typical person leaving California for Texas is doing so explicitly for the lower cost of living and lower tax burden, why would they vote for policies th
by KoftaBob 6y ago
If the typical person leaving California for Texas is doing so explicitly for the lower cost of living and lower tax burden, why would they vote for policies that go against that goal?
You could argue that it's the longtime locals in the Bay Area, those who bought homes cheaply in the 60s/70s, that are usually the NIMBYs voting for the policies that caused the current state of things.
Those same people are the least likely to be the ones leaving for Texas.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI think people moving may like the politics of where they're moving to, in the abstract. But they get there, and they decide they'd like something between where they are and where they came from - say, 25% California and 75% Texas. But that's still trying to move Texas, not all the way to California, but in that direction. To those already in Texas, that raises hackles.
- pixl97 6y agoAnecdotally I've heard just that come out of peoples mouths... "It's cheap here in Texas but why don't you have ___thing that costs millions in tax dollars___"