Last year, we had quite a few headlines about people leaving the state.
Anecdotally, 3 of my friends (all with families) announced this month that they will be moving once the school year is over in May/June. All of them just sold or are selling houses. One was a family with 4 kids, another with 3, and the last with 2. All of them are 30 to 40 year olds.
All of them cited the reason to leave was the inability to get a larger home (they had all outgrown their homes). What do you think this will do, and do you think it is as widespread as it seems to me?
John Doe
How many are coming south of the border to make up for the loss?
I know SEVEN families (ranging from 2 to 6 members) that have/are moving out of the state, namely Seattle area and Colorado. I like SoCal too much to move, and I don’t feel bad for them when they complain about the mass amounts of rain or snow
scratch that 9
3 to Seattle
4 to Colorado (within 30mi of Denver)
1 to Utah
1 to Idaho (which actually was a mass migration of 25odd people, all family, where they sold 1 business, and 4 houses, then bought everyone a new house and started a new business)
We’re actually in a very similar situation except we’re renting and cannot afford to get into a house. Paying $2500-$3500 a month for a new house is just crazy.
Anon 2:55 PM
1. Please choose a handle. Use the “other” option and just use something to describe yourself and use it whenever posting.
2. In answer to your question… Maybe a lot, maybe not. We have all heard media reports that say that construction jobs are drying up (which was a major reason for many coming). And, as an anecdote, he Home Depot I drive by every day has an increasingly longer line of immigrant labor standing out front over the past 6 months, but I’m not in the mainstream illegal immigrant culture, so I have no way of knowing if more are coming or leaving, or what. I doubt that there would be official statistics to back up the claim one way or another. If you know of any, please email me them and I’d love to do a real analysis on the numbers, in defense of or against my previous assertions.
I had two co-workers leave with their families in the last two years because of high housing costs.
Last summer I moved to the not-so-sunny Portland, OR area as I was tired of paying ridiculous rental prices in San Diego and knew I would never be able to afford to buy a place (there’s no way I’d ever use any of those “exotic” mortgage options). Unfortunately there’s been a big increase in housing prices here too in the last couple of years (thanks to other CA refugees?), but at least I’m able to rent a two-bedroom place for less than I was paying in SD for a one-bedroom apt. And I don’t mind the rain
nice America? people have to leave a place they want to live because they are forced to by prices and lousy built homes.
Feds,realestate agents ,builders,mortg companies pulled the scam of the past half century on the public, are you happy now?
As Borat would say:
“I Like”
Problem with “As Borat would say” is that Borat’s “I Like” can flip over into Borat’s “Throw The Jews Down The Well” without warning.
And isn’t Borat’s whole shtick to make the Mark agree with Borat about doing something disgusting rather than cause a scene?
Right you are.
Disclaimer: I never saw the Borat movie.
Lessee… make the mark agree with Borat about doing something disgusting rather than cause a scene…
in light of:
Feds,realestate agents ,builders,mortg companies pulled the scam of the past half century on the public, are you happy now?
seems rather disgusting to me and I’d say that most people went along with it despite their taxes and cost of living went up considerably.
For the record, anti-semitism is a disease that can only be cured by learning.