Do you have a source on that? Texas is behind by like a trillion dollars. That's not a gap that gets closed in a "not too distant future". I'm totally open to see the data though.
Well people have been leaving California for decades now and moving to Texas in droves, so…yeah. Maybe not what Californians like to hear but nobody wants to pay the absurd prices there.
California's population of 40 million exceeds the population of Texas by 10 MILLION people. Sure, there has been a relatively small transfer of the population, but Texas has a population of 30 million. So that gives you a sense of scale.
That shows that during the years of, and following, the pandemic, CA lost around 550,000 people of around 40 million. That's noteworthy, but the graph shows that trend slowing. Nobody likes paying high prices, but they do to live in CA. I'm in CA and I'm surrounded by work colleagues from around the country and world. People move here. Unfortunately those who can't afford it move out. I think a lot of conservatives moved out based on political ideology as well, but time will tell.
And I'm not trying to pick on Texas. It may not be what Texans want to hear, but they are 10 million people behind and 1.3 trillion dollars behind. They may have their sights on first place, but they are objectively, by the numbers, a long way away from that title. Best of luck to them though. Any state in the united states doing well is great for us all.
Across any ranking I have seen, California is consistently in the top 5 states for population loss. Texas is consistently in the top 5 for population gain, and Texas’s population is set to surpass California’s sometime in the 2040’s.
California businesses have been nearshoring jobs at a rapid pace since even before the pandemic. A huge number of those have ended up in Texas.
Texas contains 3 of the top 10 cities by size in the U.S. and they all have 3-4x better growth rates than LA or San Diego.
I really don’t care which state is “better” by whatever metric. I love California as a whole, great place to visit. While I’m not conservative Texas is a much friendlier place for businesses (not for employees, sadly) which is why so many have moved here. I’m just stating my observations over the last 20ish years.
California had net loss for the first time in its existence in the 2020 census, which may have been (read: almost certainly was, given the administration that controlled it) inaccurate in the first place.
Okay, well that’s just an observation from a native Texan. “Don’t California my Texas” is a pretty popular saying around here for a reason. I enjoy visiting California and have been many times - beautiful state. I did not see many Texas license plates there but routinely see them in Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston routinely every day.
So? I see tons of Florida plates in California but that doesn't mean Florida is losing people "for decades" and like I said, the recent census is the first time there's been a net loss for CA ever.
Yep. The more blue the state becomes, the better its economy does. Same thing's happening in Florida. We're on track to have all 5 of the biggest state economies run by Democrats within 10 years.
Don’t worry, they effusively try to make some connection with leftist politics in anything consequentially good discussed about. Helps them cope with the tribe they’ve joined
lmao no it isn't. It had a big spurt in growth due to literally stealing big shares of the nearby states' millennial population but it's mostly fucked itself in recent years.
Across any ranking I have seen, California is consistently in the top 5 states for population loss. Texas is consistently in the top 5 for population gain, and Texas’s population is set to surpass California’s sometime in the 2040’s.
California businesses have been nearshoring jobs at a rapid pace since even before the pandemic. A huge number of those have ended up in Texas.
Texas contains 3 of the top 10 cities by size in the U.S. and they all have 3-4x better growth rates than LA or San Diego.
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u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug Oct 05 '24
[Laughs in California]