Despite the so-called "Great California Exodus" that has seen residents leave the state in droves, mostly because of the high cost of living, there are plenty of people bucking the trend and making their way to the Bay Area.
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
Yeah, the polarization between red and blue states has become pretty frightening, honestly. It’s been theorized that the draconian laws against personal rights and freedoms in some red states is an actual Republican strategy to chase away liberals and moderates to prevent those states from turning purple, which is a real possibility for the ones with big population centers that tend to be blue.
What an odd chart. Do the authors do any kind of correlation analysis on something like interest rates or median housing prices to explain the seasonality?
Most of the people I know who moved to Austin are looking to come back to the west coast due to concerns about their civil rights being removed and their overall safety. Blue city in a red state used to be a viable strategy, but several Republican governors are centered that the big centralized state government can tell the cities what to do, while simultaneously saying that the federal government can’t tell them what to do.
Yeah, the polarization between red and blue states has become pretty frightening, honestly. It’s been theorized that the draconian laws against personal rights and freedoms in some red states is an actual Republican strategy to chase away liberals and moderates to prevent those states from turning purple, which is a real possibility for the ones with big population centers that tend to be blue.
Here’s the article that that graph came from, and it has a bit of analysis with some other data, though maybe not what you’re looking for.