My book, “DumpCal – Trade California for Vegas and double your lifestyle for half the cost” explains why the middle class is increasingly abandoning California for places with affording housing, lower taxes, less traffic, and reduced regulation.
(Get if free by going to www.DumpCal.com and registering.)
Here are a few headlines from around the internet talking about other down sides of calling the Golden State home, including disease, homelessness, and fleeing business (and jobs). Feel free to send me links to similar reports I may have missed.
Survey: 53% Californians want to leave
The No. 1 reasons seems to be housing, or the cost of it. Some of that is because California has great weather, particularly by the coast, but much of it is because of decisions of local and state government and the heavy hand of regulation.
The Bay Area, where the median house costs $1.3 million, leads the DumpCal movement.
Click here for the source story.
Dream of leaving California? Just do it.
Here’s sort of a snotty column from Pasadena, where – surprise, surprise – those leaving are depicted as Trump-loving losers.
Click here for the source story.
Dealing (or failing to deal with) ever expanding homelessness
Homelessness has been out of control in coastal California, particularly in the LA Basin, where homelessness seems to be growing exponentially, and San Francisco, where the presence and effects of the homeless have been blamed for losing conventions and tourism. This missive offers some ideas for dealing with it.
3 things California can do to dig out of a homelessness crisis years in the making
And here’s a compelling view of it from the air:
L.A.’s homeless: View from above shows homeless problem in San Fernando Valley
California disease outbreaks
Disease has been a new item on the reasons for leaving California, including a typhus outbreak, partially because of the homeless. That includes a typhus outbreak being described as “epidemic” in Pasadena (see the column, above) and downtown L.A.:
Typhus reaches ‘epidemic levels’ in parts of Los Angeles area
California surveilles those with money who leave
With the nation’s highest tax hit on the top earners, it’s no surprise they’re thinking of getting their mail some place a bit more tax friendly. But California is not going to let the go easily and tries to keep track of them to hang onto their tax dollars.
Wealthy Clients Leaving High-Tax States May Face Strict Residency Audits
Comments on businesses and jobs leaving California
Other states, most notably Texas and Arizona, are trying to move businesses from the state, and Texas is getting the lion’s share of those leaving California.
‘Don’t mess with Texas,’ more Californians moving to the Lone Star State
And here’s advice via a letter to the editor about why a local manufacturer is taking scores of jobs out of California.
Letter to the Editor: Mitsubishi Motors North America leaves Cypress (and California)
Don’t forget taxes
As if the highest state income tax in the nation, high property taxes, and following former residents to levy taxes on their pensions, the gas tax is going up (the only direction taxes take there).
California Gas Tax to Jump to 47.3 Cents a Gallon on July 1
Get the free book
If you want a free book on why people are leaving California, go to www.DumpCal.com. Yes, it’s free.
Also see:
Are you considered rich in your state?
Buying a home – a great investment or not?
Vegas returns to more normal housing market