• Octavio@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    So, 60 thousand people is like 0.15% of California’s population. That’s like a 400 lb. man going on a diet and losing 9.6 ounces. Is it really even worth mentioning?

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        2 years ago

        I don’t remember, tbh. I do agree with your comment that the headline is misleading in that it implies wrongly that net migration from Texas to California is positive.

        I do think people make way too much of the net migration from California to Texas, which I think can fairly be described as negligible. I don’t recall what made me think that a reply to your comment was the best place to make that argument. Maybe because this was where I was when I saw the 60k figure. Sorry if it was off-putting.

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          26 days ago

          Californian retirees move all over the country. You hear people in Florida and Nashville, NC and Virginia, and Seattle, Portland, etc. all complain about the house wealthy Californians moving in and increasing the property prices. These people in Cali that won the house lottery are mostly retirement age and had paid off mortgages. They bitch about us in NY too. NY public employees who have retired and moved to low tax states. You would think they would value these people who are spending money in their communities.