California is evidence that liberalism does not work for the millions who are leaving

The Atlantic:

Why Texans Don’t Want Any More Californians

Migrants from the Golden State could change the character of their new homes.

While there have been some Texans concerned about the influx from California, other statistics suggest that the majority of those leaving for Texas are conservatives fleeing the evils of liberalism.  Regulations have made housing unaffordable for young families and their cities are being hollowed out with fewer kids.

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Last year, I wrote that expensive housing in America’s richest cities was pushing away families with children, leading to a “childless city.” California’s biggest metros are on the bleeding edge of this trend. Since the end of the Great Recession, home prices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco have increased by 70 percent, 80 percent, and 116 percent, respectively. This has driven middle-class families to either move inland or leave entirely. San Francisco has the lowest percentage of children under 18 of any major city in the U.S., and Los Angeles County has seen a 17 percent decline in the number of kids in the past 10 years.

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Births are falling, due to declining fertility among all groups, including Latinos, who make up about one-third of the state’s population. And deaths are increasing as the population ages. The state's annual natural growth—births minus deaths—has plummeted from more than 300,000 in 2008 to 180,000 today. According to figures shared by the California Department of Finance, the median age is rising 40 percent faster than that of the rest of the U.S. population.
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Most of the housing stock in these cities is old and people are spending extravagantly to try to bring the small houses up to date.  Restrictions make building new homes difficult to impossible and when people do go that route regulations drive up the cost.  One of the new regulations required solar panels which when hooked up to the grid are worthless when the state requires a blackout fearing fires.  They do that rather than manage the forests to prevent fires.  Not many people can afford million-dollar mortgages.