Between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the middle of 2022, California lost about 500,000 individuals.
According to KTLA, between April 2020 and July 2022, the population of California decreased by about 500,000, or 1% of the state’s overall population.
The publication stated that the counties of San Francisco and Los Angeles have experienced the greatest population drop.
More purchasers were looking to flee San Francisco and Los Angeles than any other U.S. metro in the past month, according to a study by the major real estate brokerage Redfin.
Another study by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) found that a third of respondents had considered fleeing the state due to high housing costs and that 61 percent of the state’s probable electors agree that “rising prices are causing them financial hardship.”
The Daily Mail observed that a wave of layoffs in the technology sector and its effects on the larger finance sector has been another possible component in California citizens’ decisions to move to other states.
Breitbart News reported that since the year’s commencement, 1,600 tech employees had been laid off daily.
Additionally, according to the Chronicle, increasing violence has become a bigger worry for Californians, especially in San Francisco:
According to KPIX, “the department saw a 121 percent increase in total overtime between 2021 and 2022.”
Additionally, “SFPD officials have been concentrating their efforts on reducing crime in urban areas where instances are more likely to occur.”
London Breed stated in February that “we need our officers out on the street despite the fact that San Francisco has been working hard to resolve significant public safety issues.”
According to PPIC, Californians are most worried about homelessness, second only to the economy.
As Breitbart News reported, the Department of Housing and Urban Development determined that the state was “entirely” to blame for a rise in homelessness that was seen nationally in January of that year.
Stop! Don’t move out of your “blue,state “! You are part of the problem! You kept VOTING FOR IT, YOU GOT IT! NOW DEAL WITH IT! Being stupid and dumb is all it take to live in a blue state. Since you claim you are a DEMOCRAT AND A LIBERAL SOCIALISM. You should stay there! Nobody in those Red state want your political view in their state. Because we already know you NEVER CHANGE! So live were you CREATED THE PROBLEM UNTIL YOU DECIDED YOU GOING TO FIX THE PROBLEM!
I have to fully concur with this statement. Lived in Baltimore as a kid and moved to enter the Navy. Best decision I ever made. NEVER went back.
The great red states should not allow any communist pedophile from the blue states to live in their state I agree every blue state communist pedophile should be made to stay in the state that they keep voting for their communist pedophile leaders
AMEN TO THAT!
We left LA in 2006 and it is much worse since then. We tried moving to Palmdale. But that didn’t really help. So we sold out and left the state. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to California. But I don’t see how anyone can survive there now. Or why they would want to.
I agree with Wyatt. This is the price you pay for voting stupid. It amazes me that anyone could support the Democratic Party with the mess they have created in just two short years of being in power. If people don’t wake up, get their heads out of the sand and watch real news stations like Fox News, AON and Newsmax instead of the liberal controlled stations like CNN and MSNBC they’ll never know what is really going on in this country. We have to take the country back while we still have a country!
I agree with you guys but you know that those OVER EDUCATED LIBTURDS & DEMONRATS DON’T HAVE COMMON SENSE ENOUGH TO POUR WATER OUT OF A BOOT WITH THE DIRECTIONS ON THE HEEL
Oh well guess my leaving in 1968 was a great choice. Never looked back.
Does the 500,000 people include people who have died in California? Sad to say that the people leaving will bring their politics with them and screw up that state they are moving to….and the people who have died in California will still be voting for the democrat party….
All self inflicted pains.You keep voting for Democrats and don’t learn,so leave or enjoy your choices.
These people fouled their nest in their home states, so they leave it to bring the same policies/outlook to a pristine state in order to foul it