I have yet to see those facts just sweeping anecdotes. Can you share actual data? The kind with numbers. Would love to see it because the data Ive shared tells a different story. The story it tells is that every market surrounding St George is starting to shift dramatically in a way the coastal CA markets are not. And while Id be the first to admit that St George could still grow and prosper despite those markets deteriorating quickly they do a much better job of telling the story of an alleged CA exodus. They do so much better than little SG ever could and that story is the whole point of this exercise.
I dont doubt that your market has been growing over the last 2 years by those measures you mention despite you not sharing actual data points. That has been the case pretty much everywhere in the country until recently. UCSD has grown more than 10% during the pandemic! I would venture to guess that its growth is bigger than the total enrollment of that school you mentioned. Feel free to correct me but is this the school you mentioned? the one with 7200 students?
However, things out in the world are shifting fast. What the data sources Ive put out show are the first things available on the RE market and the trends are unmistakable.
As for the subject, here’s what prods me to revisit it as I did several months ago. Its kinda funny but I added SG to the cities on my cell phone weather app when this all started. Every once in a while I scroll through them all and when I saw temps in SG well over 100 it made me chuckle and I posted about that. Then last week another poster forwarded me an article about the RE markets taking the hardest and fastest falls of which 3 of the top 10 are in Utah. That presented an opportunity to challege the unsubtantiated claims again
The whole alleged CA exodus is a phenomena that has always interested me. I’ve been here almost 30 years and it seems the media rolls out that story every year or two. Somehow we keep growing and booming economically in CA leading the way in our great nation despite all these premature calls. If we go back to the beginning where you admit selling out of SD over a decade ago and switching to AZ where you did not do as well as you would have had you just left it in SD. That has only amplified since this thread began. While you still try to claim we are falling apart here, you have pretty much admitted that the best thing you could have done with your SD investments would have been not to touch them. You are speaking from your red beating heart not your head. This thread presents another opportunity for me to follow and debunk that theory as i have been the last 2 decades.
