Businesses and heavily-taxed families are leaving CA not only due to current economic and political realities, but for what they see in our future. Demographic, political, and economic trends simply look worse here than the states they are moving to.
Given the cost of living here and the inefficiencies of our union-dominated government, employers and the middle-class run the numbers and make their long-term plans to leave. They witness Sacramento’s liberal tilt and see little reason for improvement in areas of taxes, silly regulations, utility costs (which are about to really leap upward), schools and universities, and rationally plot their departure. For many, their depressed home values are only postponing their move out.
