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Originally Posted by red-beard
You need to look at the demographics of those that have been leaving. For years, those leaving have been young professionals, who are priced out of everything.
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Absolutely, 100% true.
My meetings on the east coast last week went very, very well. I can say with virtual certainty that as one of that group, I'm down to my final weeks - if not days - in California myself. When one factors in career opportunity, entrepreneurial incentives, tax structure, housing prices, quality of municipal services (schools, roads, police/fire, etc.) for the tax rate, etc. CA is the pits and is getting its ass handed to it by other, more "traditional" states. You know, the ones that CA likes to scoff at for being "old fashioned" or "outdated". Those ones. I can say with first-hand qualitative (and even some quantitative) knowledge that MA, NH, CT and even NY are whipping CA's ass in these departments right now. Unquestionably.
I'm holding out some hope still that there might be some last-minute opportunity that pops up here in CA, but I'm not going to hold onto an outdated and nostalgic dream when I've got very real "bird-in-the-hand" opportunities on the east coast.
I'd put my chances of being in CA at the end of July around 5%-10% right now. If that. The opportunities are just SO much better elsewhere there's little reason to stay.