Look at the U-Haul numbers to rent a 5×8’ cargo trailer between Austin and Los Angeles.
- Los Angeles to Austin: $507
- Austin to Los Angeles: $62
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No one wants to go to California.
Just goes to show: no matter how beautiful a state is, you can run people out with your liberal tax policies.
It turns out that people hate living in blue states, where lax drug laws, tight gun control, socialist taxation, and liberal social circles make the place uninhabitable. According to The Daily Caller, three major blue states lost a record number of citizens in 2016-2017.
New York saw the worst exodus of people, with about 190,000 residents fleeing from July 1, 2016 to July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week.
“New York’s domestic out-migration during that time period was about the same as it was in the same time 2015 and 2016,” reports The Daily Caller. “Since 2010, the state’s outflow of just over 1 million residents has exceeded that of every other state, both in absolute terms and as a share of population, according to the free-market think tank Empire Center.”
New York has largely made up for the mass exodus through an influx of international immigration and “natural increase,” with 73,000 more births than deaths in the year. That puts their net population growth at about 13,000.
The same could not be said for President Obama’s home state of Illinois, which has now dropped from the fifth to the sixth-most populous state in 2017. The fifth-most populous state is Pennsylvania, which swung red for Trump in the previous election.
