I want to say “fine, California is better off without them”, but I’m sure there are some people who are forced to move for economic reasons. But then again, why are they choosing those shitholes?
Tax burden is roughly equivalent to California, it's just hidden in ways these idiots don't realize before they move because all they see is "NO INCOME TAX." They don't realize those relatively cheap homes come with preposterously high property taxes that would get you woodchippered if you tried to raise them to this level in California (4-5x higher). Well okay but your home was still cheaper and it's bigger except, by the way, you're now making significantly less money and you knew that going in. Right? You DID account for that, didn't you? Food isn't really less expensive. Toll roads are fucking everywhere. Gas may be less expensive but everything is farther away and if you want to save money by taking public transport you're fucked unless you live in Dallas because it's the only city in this state that has something resembling a fully functional system (and it's still utter shit compared to LA, Seattle, Boston, DC, Chicago, and even fucking Atlanta). Also your house has foundation problems because the soil in Texas is made mostly of moisture with some dirt holding hands in between.
On top of that you're constantly dodging tornadoes, you're surrounded by people far more racist than your "my Mexican neighbors play loud music sometimes and I don't like it" could ever comprehend, a trip to any large public area will guarantee you're in the midst of random assholes with guns on their hips, the government is trying to defund public education (and you can be fucking CERTAIN your property taxes won't fucking go down), the government is such shit that it rejected improvements to Medicaid it wouldn't even have to fucking pay for, abortion is basically illegal, and our cops will in fact just let you and your children be murdered rather than do their jobs. So at least you'll feel right at home on that point.
Texas is shit. It's expensive shit. If it's actually cheaper for you then chances are good your children were already in private schools, you utilized no public services, and you were already raking in $500k or more a year. THEN you might find things easier because this state was designed to kowtow to your 1% ass.
Otherwise, move literally anywhere else. Texas is the perfect storm of dick in the ass and no reacharound.
A little bit deceptive way to say it because there are some red states with high out-migration like Alaska and North Dakota- but there are also a lot of red states with much higher in-migration than California and, especially, New York, such as Florida and Texas.(From what I saw for 2016-2017 this could be more up to date but I don’t know the accuracy Plus this looks like generally blue counties are more often out migrating.](census.gov/…/net-domestic-migration-increased-in-…)
Conservatives purposefully refuse to understand what “per capita” means so that they don’t have to deal with all of the additional cognitive dissonance that comes with ignoring basic statistics.
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