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California has been exporting poor people for years. Texas is one of the states they move to. Florida is a destination for retirees due to the temperate weather
by DoreenMichele 5y ago
California has been exporting poor people for years. Texas is one of the states they move to. Florida is a destination for retirees due to the temperate weather and tax policies, so could correlate to an aging population.
- TrispusAttucks 5y agoExporting poor people while importing homeless people.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoYes.
- pkaye 5y agoThe weather in California is pretty comfortable year around which suits the homeless well. Many states are scorching hot or freezing cold some time of the year.
- jeffbee 5y agoCalifornia doesn't import homeless people, it creates them through its special sauce of a white-hot economy and zero tolerance for housing construction.
- hedora 5y agoAnd also zero tolerance for mental health care. (Thanks, Governor Regan, for killing off what used to be a functional system!)
- incomingpain 5y agoI haven't been able to find data like that to show if they are poor or wealthy. I suspect poor is the only demographic not moving, which is a general migration rule. Moving costs $. Folks like Elon Musk moving to Texas probably brought significant numbers of wealthy folks with him. Not to mention, when work from home became an option. The elites of california moved to texas. Perhaps it was poor people before, during covid that changed would be my guess.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoThis seems to be a transcript of a now paywalled article from a California newspaper: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.religion.scientology/c/0Uq5J4r_6DI https://groups.google.com/g/alt.religion.scientology/c/0Uq5J... Though certainly covid fostered migration of privileged remote workers as well.