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Lots of denial in this thread.

CA is the most negative State in net domestic migration and TX is second to FL only at the other end of the scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

CA is just terrible value for most people currently. I'm not American and neither is Musk, it's not like he's going to make such decision for ideological allegiances. He just gets better value for his money elsewhere. Currently CA seems pretty broken between rural, poor and underinvested areas; and super-expensive, badly mismanaged urban areas. I don't think he's going to move to the desert, he'll probably move to urban TX and it's rather liberal there.




> CA is the most negative State in net domestic migration

Sure, but mostly that's actually good for the state economically since while there is net domestic outmigration, its more than made up for by international immigration, and the gross domestic outmigration is lower on the economic scale than the gross domestic inmigration.


not currently, no

international migration is shown in that like as well, in the bottom table

in any case it doesn't bode well for them economically as these immigrants are usually net welfare recipients


Let them eat Texan cake.


Thank you for the wiki link! What's crazy is the migrants per capita numbers. Idaho is 3x Texas!


That's in absolute numbers. Per capita, it's number 8, which is still high, but still beat out by NY, NJ, and IL.




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