First, the underlying report is at : https://www.capolicylab.org/calexodus-are-people-leaving-california/ https://www.capolicylab.org/calexodus-are-people-leavi

First, the underlying report is at : https://www.capolicylab.org/calexodus-are-people-leaving-california/ https://www.capolicylab.org/calexodus-are-people-leaving-cal... Interesting to notice the title for the report vs. the title the LA Times headline writers selected. Second, much of the data is being reported as Year over year deltas and ratios of %, which is mathematically accurate but hard to interpret. A increase of over 900% in people leaving S.F. sounds pretty spectacular, but the same metric has Alameda at over 400%, and LA is over 130% I got estimates of the populations from https://www.california-demographics.com/counties_by_population https://www.california-demographics.com/counties_by_populati..., and used that to normalize the exit rate by percent of population. S.F definitely leads, with 2.3% net leaving, but only 19 of 57 California Counties in the report actually grew. L.A., San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Orange Counties all shrunk, but the "Everyone hate on S.F." bandwagon gets more clicks.