I’ve never heard of Texans moving to SD. All data and anecdotes point to many people LEAVING SAN DIEGO.

Every day that I go into a store, I start a conversation with the clerk, owner, whatever. I ask them about their business, whether they are hiring because people are leaving San Diego, if they themselves know anyone who moved out of SD, if their customers fill up with gas and why not, etc. I learn about what’s going on by interviewing daily the people I meet. My kids are so annoyed with me. Their most often repeated phrase when I start one of these conversations is, “Mom, I’m going to go wait outside for you”. Then it’s my cue to wrap it up.

Anyway, what I’m hearing in my own little survey is that people are leaving San Diego in droves. This makes it harder to hire and recruit people.

There may be people here and there moving to San Diego, but the trend is to leave, at the rate of 44,000/year as of last June. I bet this year we lost 60,000 people.