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About 100,000 more people moved away from California in 2011 than relocated to the Golden State, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In recent years, unemployment in the state has skyrocketed, while the cost of living has increased.
So, where are these Californians going? The Census Bureau calculated that the most popular destination is Texas, with 58,992 residents relocating there along with a number of California companies.
Arizona was next on the list, with 49,635 people moving, then Nevada, Washington, and Oregon.
Although in smaller numbers, others are still relocating to the Golden State. Texans make up the largest number of new California residents with 37,387 people, according to the report. That is followed by people from Washington (36,481), Nevada (36,159), Arizona (35,650), and New York (25,269).
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In total, 468,428 people have moved to California from other states, and 269,772 have moved to the state from other countries, according to the Census Bureau.
Economic experts are optimistic that California’s economy has started picking up steam, and may halt the movement of residents out of the state.
“We expect over the next couple of years that we will add jobs,” said Robert Kleinhenz, chief economist with the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation.
"This year, we’ve added jobs in California at a faster pace than in the nation as a whole. So, we are moving in right direction. As that happens, we’ll see the migration numbers turn around some," he added.
The agriculture industry, one of the state’s largest, has been particularly affected by fewer undocumented immigrants crossing the border, deterred from coming to the U.S. because of high unemployment and a developing middle class in Mexico.
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When I retired, in 2000, I left California for the cheap real estate and low taxes of Florida. Biggest mistake I ever made. I have a good friend who moved from the same town, Benicia, California to Flagstaff, Arizona. Same story. Big mistake. Next year I will change my handle from JCC@FL to JCC@CA. You can have your cheap taxes, humidity and dumb-ass rednecks. Fly your f---ing stars and bars all you want. I won't be there to see it.
From a Texas perspective... You can have them back!!! Too many of them arrive here, taking our jobs, acting all snotty, complaining constantly and bragging about how much better California is. It makes us wonder why they left California, if they loved it so much.
This is about the class system. California is prime real estate. It is becoming a rich person's playground. Working class people are getting priced out of the market. It's no wonder they act so snotty when they get kicked out of their Garden of Eden.
It's an interesting question what an influx of California progressives could do to the ultra-conservative Texas political environment.
i'd guess many transplants will locate near austin. it's a nice quality of life out there.
In 1983 I made like Tom Joad and left OKC for LA with $500 in my pocket...fast forward to 2013...still here and have a great job and an ocean view condo...you see...unlike the Joads who were intimidated by Californians not wanting Okies in their state...when i got here if a Californian greeted me the wrong way...no problem, the redneck Okie came out in me and I just smashed their F'n face in...anyhow, still here, still love it all through its ups and downs....
CA growing??? BullSht!!! the only thing that will grow in numbers in CA will be Union Thugs...government union thugs, afl/cio union thugs, culinary union thugs, etc...etc...and when the business move out because of all the idiot regulations and by being pummelled by all the Union Thugs and there are no private sector jobs BOOOOM!
No taxes and there goes the government union thugs!! and there goes the other union thugs!!! there goes CA.!
The more people that leave CALI the better!.. For those that say this is an awful state.... I am glad your gone!!!! CA is a great place to live, but rent is to high and gas is as well! But no matter where you go you have to deal with something. Texas, you have to deal with the heat and conservatives, Ariz. is the same....... Move to Oregon or Washington you have to deal with the weather... I'l stay here in San Diego, CA!!!!....
you're one of those californians whose descendants got there on the mayflower, i take?
Mine got their after serving in Grants Army he got their in 1870 now we have all moved out.
Hey Liberals: Still think the wealthy will not be moving their businesses and taking their tax payments out of the country after Obama raises their taxes? This has happened in NY, NJ, France and the UK, and other places where they decided to stick it to the rich. Here is a clue...they are mobile and they are ticked.
You don't mind making up the difference in the 70 percent of taxes paid by the top five percent.
Kathy, were you around during the Clinton years? How many business left the country when taxes were raised during the Clinton administration?
Isn't it the right wing who claim to be patriotically superior? How patriotic is leaving the country if taxes are raised?
Do you right wingers ever think for yourselves or do you stick to the what the right wing entertainment (clown) media tells you?
Fyi JCC,
The clown media, are comprised of approximately 90% flaming liberals that are in the tank for president what's his name, another flaming liberal- SOCIALIST. Where have you been?
San Francisco used to be the place you moved to when you didn't fit in where you were from. In the nineties all the people you moved away from started moving to San Francisco and screwed it up. So if those are the people that are leaving California now I say good riddance go back to where ever you came from.
who can afford to live there?
most places in the usa now accept diversity. up until 1980, i suspect that wasn't the case.
if anyone is old enough to remember, there was a time in america not that long ago when homosexuality was an instant ticket to the state mental hospital. laws on the books in many places allowed the state to committ a gay person against his or her will to psychiatric evaluation and treatment.
For the record, I'm not gay and wasn't referring to the gay community. The majority of the people who live in San Francisco are not gay. The culture in San Francisco is so diverse you can only be judge by the quality of your character. Prior to the nineties, San Francisco was a haven for musicians, artist, writers and socially progressive individualism. When the dot.com boom hit all the money grubbing yuppies showed up, drove the price of real estate up and the artist out, because they could no longer afford to live here.
The Great California Exodus- As it stands today, about 40% of Californians don't pay any income tax and a quarter are on Medicaid.What you've done by exempting people from paying taxes is that they feel no responsibility. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304444604577340531861056966.html
wsj was bought by mudrock a few years back, and it shows.
more right-wing propaganda
people pay taxes on their paycheck.
so they may not owe anything at the end of the year.
big deal.
i love california. but it's too expensive for me to live there.
The dummycrats have controlled that state for decades and they have destroyed it's economy. Do you really count Arnie Schriver as a Republican? Like all the other Dummycrat controlled states it is not able to support itself, and needs some welfare. Then the dummycrats move out into other states citing the economy as the reason they need to move, and proceed to pollute the governments of those states into non functional welfare entities like they just ran away from. Then they move on. They never take credit for the crumbling economies they leave in their wakes they just wreck 'em with political cronies and failed policies and move on to the next working state and bugger it up too. Like a virus! They are an infection!
The Arizona economy is "OK" - but not fantastic right now either so trust me on this point as I know it well - but they are faring much better than Kalifornia right now..........(the "K" for socialist/marxist effect)..........let's face it, there are lot of stoned out marxists in this state of Kalifornia lol..........
Texas right now is booming because it has pro-business friendly policies which "welcome and encourage" development, not detract from it. Texas is THE PLACE in the country to start a business, buy a house, or get A JOB!! I know.............I used to live in Dallas for 7 years and it was booming then and my friends tell me it is booming NOW!
If you are seeking work............cut the Kalifornia Krap and get your ass to TEXAS...........the new land of opportunity! Maybe no ocean outside your beach condo which cost you a million dollars that you can barely afford, but lotsa $$$ in your bank account will more than make up for it!!
plus, they have an ocean..........it's where the oil is.........black gold.........Texas tea..........
Please, don't encourage them. next thing we'll be running out of water & patience with their liberal thought processes that screwed California...
GREAT!! California has way too many people living here any way. I hope more non hackers leave. I hate these idiots from other states that move here and moan and whine about everything. California...love it or leave it. If you don't like living in Cali you should get out. The sooner the better. Please go...quickly..PLEASE
I guess the PRC will just have to build a wall like they did in the DDR.
I fell in love with Southern California in the 70's when my dad drove the family from San Antonio, Texas 1/2 way across America, in a Kingswood Station Wagon (now they're called SUVs) to visit his mom & sister. Much later, after a 6 year hitch in the Navy, I moved to Ventura & later, Oceanside. I LOVED the weather, so perfect, it becomes boring, but the people were very standoffish, especially when they learned that I was from Texas. Not all, but enough to make me not feel welcome, so after living there for 3 years, I took my T-Bird back to Texas. So to all of you flaming liberal Californians that are relocating to our fair state, I'll let you know in advance, don't expect a big welcoming Texas hug from me. Just consider it Karma.
PS same goes for know-it-all New Yorkers.
California just need to look at Mich. and that will be them in ten years. They are raising taxes on the rich and they will just move to another state that has lower taxes. They are also raising taxeas on business to help pay for all of the social programs and now they will leave. So guess what California now you are stuck with hollywood nut jobs. Yep California will continue to lose and filing chapter nine is going to be the only way out
While Mich. may resemble a burned out relic of what once was great, there is a pretty good chance that it won't be over-run with illegal population of 10:1 or greater population explosion like CA. Eventually, even the wealthiest will leave the state because no place is that great that its worth going broke just to live there.
MOVE TO TEXAS! We need more democrats here! The overly religious (most of texas) and Tea Baggers are in the process of destroying the state!
So thats why Texas has one of the lowest unemployment rates, and the highest economic growth! Thats why so many businesses are opening up shop in tx and moving there.
The only people who think the tea party is this big bad influential entity are the people who have no frikin idea what they're about. Keep sucking on your foot buddy.
overly religous? lol really? I'de rather be overly religious than morally bankrupt! Texas is doing just fine. Leave!
cause cali sucks ass,i lived here all my life,its full of a bunch of mexcians border jumpers and ghetto ass crack head black people,truth,its a pile of @!$%# place everyone is on welfare and they are fat @!$%#en people,reason im gonna move to texas or some place that hates border jumpers and crack head black people.
I was born and raised in California but I left that state more than 30 years ago and never looked back. Too many people, too much traffic, too much chaos! I opted for a small town in rural Colorado. I love my country life here.
The question is are the folks moving out of California to find jobs or to avoid paying our "exorbitant" taxes. Without that detail clarified many of these comments are just political talking points.....
My take on it is that lack of jobs and cost of living drives folks in the 99% out of California while the 1% don't really notice the cost of living and don't need "jobs" because they own companies or have other means of income. What I notice is that rich folks keep coming here and usually have enough money to not pay taxes by paying accountants and tax lawyers to protect their funds....
BTW- I am sick and tired of "rugged individualists" from the Tea Party living in states that suck up my tax dollars because they keep re-electing the same federal representatives that thereby have seniority and funnel bucks to their pork barrel projects........
Its the tea party states where fiscal conservatism has allowed low unemployment and high economic growth to continue. The tea party states such as Texas are basically subsidizing the liberal states that can't get their finances in order so what are you talking about?
People are leaving california because all of the above. high taxes, high cost of living, increased unemployment, overwhelming high number of illegal immigrants, increased gang violence, horrible transportation, decreased value in the traditional institution of family.
Who wants to stay around and work their ass off so some liberal thief can come along and say the hard workers aren't paying their fair share and need to pay more while more people sit on their ass and have as many children as possible to collect off the dole???
Hey Dennis, It's the "rugged individualist" that have the strenght of character to get & keep a job.
They therefore pay taxes to support the big government that supports the 47% that Romney so aptly described. So, what are you complaining about?
More proof that liberalism is a weakness that has perpetuated the breakdown of social institutions in the state of CA. Get ready for much more of this under Obama. Look at the state of IL. You want to know what the Obama admin will do to this whole country, look at his own state.
Everyone knows the people running california are a bunch of crazy nuts.
This is exactly why the fight is coming from the right! liberalism is weak and it does not cultivate strength in society.
It's frustrating and disheartening to know what the liberals have done to the beautiful sunshine state of California. CA has everything going for it, technology, agriculture, climate, land, sea, natural resources.
Now the cities are overran by gangs, overran with illegals taking the low wage jobs, healthcare is broken, prisons over populated, cities bankrupt, pension liabilities out the wazoo, taxes like crazy, wealth is isolated into small pockets of communities, and people are leaving...Soon LA will be the next Detroit.
It will continue all across america where liberalism goes uninterrupted.
There are no examples of success in uninterrupted liberalism. I hope the house repubs block every damn political stunt Obama and his jack ass liberal administration attempts.
God I hope the rest of this country does not turn into LA, Detroit or Chicago. For the sake of my two children, God I hope.
Yes! Welcome to Texas, but leave your "whatever makes Calfornia weird" behind!"
Spreadin' the lunacy. CA had a monopoly on wacko ideology, now the flood gates have opened. God help America.
This entirely B.S. sponsored by real estate speculators hoping to buy cheap and sell high. The loss of population is negligible. California is not for everyone (fortunately) and has had a number of temporary setbacks. But there is NOWHERE ELSE (the Northeast could have been, but I can't any longer suffer the temperatures) where I would live in this country. Arizona and Texas least of all; even if Texas is improving a bit; maybe because of those former Californians.
I'll be glad when I can get me some oceanfront property in Arizona. And from my front porch I can see the sea.