[quote=no_such_reality][quote=bearishgurl]
Uhhh, Mike? Hello?? Your “friends” haven’t been gone long enough to crawl back to SD broke and desperate to “start over” after asking to “rent a room” from you “for just six months.”
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Hmm, let’s see.

Friends #1, moved to Phoenix 5 years ago. Happier than a bikini watcher on main beach in August. They were shaking their heads at the taxes we past over Christmas.

Friend #2, moved to Austin 6 years ago. No longer stressed, feeling broke and living in a nice house on an acre instead of scraping by in a one bedroom apartment in beach town.

Friends #3, went St Louis 6 years ago. Happy, job is good, lots of opportunity. Has a 15 minute commute instead of an hour plus from the IE to the coast.

Friend #4, went to Atlanta 4 years ago. Happy, started her own business, less stressed now.

Friend #5, Vegas 5 years ago. Came back 3 years ago. Not happy there, not all that happy here.

That’s an 80/20 success rate.[/quote]

So none of them actually left because of the tax increase on very high income taxpayers.