Where I work we’ve lost about 10% of our engineers to less expensive states. I work at a small defense contractor and we cannot find qualified engineers. They are gone, moved away. All that seems to be left are new grads or rejects. 2 of our best left last year. One went to OK and the other went to TX. I also had a self employed friend move to KS. The price of real estate/cost of living is the main reason people are moving. You can spout off about the weather all you want, but when people making 150k a year cannot afford a decent house or can’t afford to take vacations there is a problem. At this rate CA will be nothing but illegals and low income tourist type jobs soon. It will be hard to justify those 800k homes on a Sea World salary.
