How Texas Is Becoming California
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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Thank you for watching my video on if Texas is becoming California, I know this can be a divisive issue, but I do my best to present everything in the most authentic and data driven way possible. While of course also trying to be entertaining and interesting, because this is UA-cam.
Why not mention any benefits of living in California if you want to seem objective? I found this bias as hell
Texas boosters habitually leave out how much Texas has benefited from NAFTA.
You know that it is classic stupidity of economics. To point at a state that has no harsh deadly winters homeless population. But ignore those homeless come from an Capitalists system.
Then to straight out ignore the Corporations big property grab in California. Where they are purposely inflating the rent in California. On my block alone, they built 4 apartment units and charging $4,500.00 per month. In a neighborhood where a 2 bedroom apartment was only $1,800 to $2,500. Now because of the Corporations inflated apartment prices. Now a 2 bedroom is now $3,000.00.
What's the point telling a story? When you leave key aspects of information out of the story.
Los Angeles is super over populated. The census has Los Angeles County alone with a population of 12 million. And they know it is still 8 million to 10 million under count of Los Angeles true population. Yeah, Los Angeles alone has a 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrant population. And that's not counting the "visitors". The cousins, family members, friends, that move in for a bit. That's 2 million on the very conservative count.
California is one of the few American states with a + birthrate. OK not a + birthrate of white children. But everyone else is doing great.
So a state with a plus birthrate and getting a Corporations property squeeze. That's going to bite those companies in the butt in the next 2 years. These Corporations geniuses are putting 10 million dollars into building an apartment. Thinking they can get $72k per year each apartment.
Question: Do you actually think that is sustainable?
Also, you do know the population of California is around 40 million+. California has the same population as Ukraine. Believe me, we need more people leaving California.
@@gilbertgaines672 Oh, it is definitely overpopulated. I live in San Diego where a lot of transplants decide to live during or after their military service because it's a beautiful city, but man does it make it more expensive. We need more people to leave as you stated
Don't be shy or scared to mention the benefits of California. Worker rights and benefits alone crush Texas.
I've lived in Texas all my life. Ever since our state has gotten a huge amount of transplants from other states, prices have gone sky high. My rent went up over $500.00 a month when I renewed my lease, and the response I got from the leasing agent is that they're keeping up with the market. I have been living at the same complex for 12 years, and originally paid $800.00 a month. Now I'm paying $1850.00 a month. People from New York, California think that's cheap, as they pay way more than that for a decent place to live. My point is, this influx of people moving to Texas is making it no longer affordable for the average person. That's not a good thing.
Blame the landlords for jacking up the prices. It's not the "market" like they claim. They are just greedy and know transplants will pay.
Housing costs are a huge thing. Texas has no income tax but that has never been that important in the big scheme of daily costs. If you are pricing out the middle class wage growth and cost of living is the most important thing
my mom has lived in the same apt for 12 years too, and still pays $750 just like she did back then. if her rent goes up like yours did there’s absolutely no way she’d be able to pay that. everyday i hope and pray that her rent stays the same.
Renting for 13 years? Why have t you bought a home ?
I get your frustration. I'm a new Yorker looking to move to Texas with my family. You are absolutely right the prices in texas doesn't compare to the likes of nyc. I'm renting a 2bed 2 bath apt at $2300 a month. If I was to give you a break down of my monthly bills you would think I'm crazy. I'm getting out of ny because of the weather , crime and looking for tranquility. The homes I've seen in texas for under $300k would easily run well over 800k or more in nyc.
If Texas wants to avoid becoming the next California, than they need to end single family zoning and start building missing middle housing and more walkable neighborhoods. California making its housing market nothing but single family homes is the biggest reason why their middle class is now being priced out. Because single family homes are generally very expensive, which lower-income people can't afford.
Good thing California is ending more of that single family zoning
In Atlanta we are getting a lot of 3 level townhomes and more complexes. They range 500-600,000 total or 3,000 a month. Then for the apartments 2,000 to 2,500. Pretty standard stuff. Where it gets tricky is the cost of living paired with the okay housing prices. The single family homes tho range from 600,000 to 900,000.
@@lopoa126 It's being repealed in certain cities, but it needs to be repealed state wide.
@@louisinese Georgia is definitely an attractive place to live, especially with its growing status as the new Hollywood of the East Coast.
They also need to get the High Speed Rail going.
Stop the insane zoning laws and stop prioritize single families, make alternative transportation widely accessible so we don’t have to deal with traffic and make the streets walkable.
No
Just as long as you can guarantee SAFE mass transit! Not asking for much, am I?
California has one of the better public transit systems.
Trolleys, busses, and greyhound stations and Amtrac stations.
Public transportation doesnt deter people from over building in tight city limits and reproducing like rabbits.
You will see people barely speaking English living on EBT but has nice cars and living on section 8 housing while fellow Americans are homeless.
California has bigger support system for illegals than Americans citizens struggling.
Alternative transportation just makes places more crowded and expensive, pushing out people who could once afford to live there. Ask me how I know.
I agree about zoning though. If we could build houses smaller and not have such insane square footage requirements it would be so much better.
Homeless are everywhere, Houston Texas, Phoenix Arizona, Seattle Washington, homeless is a National problem not just in California
Very true
Any urbanized area will have homeless no matter what
California has major problems with mass homelessness, high home prices, and traffic. These problems have risen from exclusionary zoning which bans low cost housing on the majority of land and creates sprawl which makes everyone live further apart.
Texas is very much destined to end up with the same problems as California because Texas also embraces exclusionary policies. Texas is growing outward with exurbs popping up way far out from the city centers. This is unsustainable since it gobbles up nature and costs a tremendous amount in lots of infrastructure for a low density of people. Traffic in Texas will continuously get worse because of it. IF, however, Texas embraces its city centers and makes an effort to redirect much of the newcomers to live there, they can keep housing costs low and avoid the pitfalls of California.
I recently read that urban core utilization in all Texas cities is the highest it's ever been, and that's on a percentage basis. So perhaps that is something to be hopeful for in that regard.
A big chunk of homeless folks come from out of state to California because of the lack of work in more conservative states. Plus the weather is much nicer in California to be homeless than the Midwest. Property taxes are already high Texas. What about Texas welcomes outsiders? Banning anything that offends the white folks like Abbott and local governments are doing? Texans love being controlled like cattle.
I agree with what you say. I do wonder if you can change the mindset of what Americans want. People want their own home and own yard. That's the dream for most. So I always wondered if it would actually work even if we built it all right.
Texas is a interesting experiment indeed...
@@baronvonjo1929 people say that but I don't know if it's actually true, before WWII most people didn't live in suburbia so the idea is fairly new.
as a Texan from Austin I don't want Texas to become bad please pray Texas does not become bad
Houston is the best city in Texas
California had to deal with migration from all over the US for decades. Glad someone else gets to deal with that problem now! Thanks for the help Texas! ;). Jk
We'll pray 🙏
Too late. I'm a born and bred Texan. I remember Austin when it was still weird and catered to us broke college students back in the 90s and before. It's an overrated, Disney world urban tourist attraction full of fake the funk Californians today. Not even worth visiting anymore.
@@GSM92Austin >>>>>
As a Texan home owner
My house has tripled in price but so has the population around me, I moved from California to avoid people and live the small town life but now seems I might have to move again due to my small town rapidly growing into a mid sized city
Wherever you go, there you are.
Yeah I lived in Dallas until 2021 until all the dumb California liberals moved here, so I have moved to Oshkosh Wisconsin and couldn’t be happier. Texas is gone now.
I feel that! I'll be moving from my native home of Central Florida in the next few months for a village in Central Maine because of how expensive and crowded it's getting here.
@@2dwc Is Florida getting as bad as Texas as far as expenses? I preferred to move to Florida over Texas.
@@lennarthomas not quite as bad but we're catching up
I love how they show a bunch of footage of homelessness in Kansas City while talking about California lol
Sad cause KS is a beautiful city and the surrounding ones too. Olathe, Lawrence
All they had to do, was film just about anywhere in the state
@whatsup7535 you've actually never been. Focus on your surroundings. I'm sure they're just as sh!tty. California's will continue to enjoy San Diego and Malibu and Palm Springs and Carmel-by-the-Sea and Big Sur and Lake Tahoe and Laguna Beach and Yosemite and...
What you got???
@@whatsup7535 You've never left your trailer park. California is living rent free in your head 😂
@@mmmd3429 You can't see trailer parks in California?
Before WWII, California was more like Texas. California's roots were based in agriculture and most people lived in rural areas and were conservative. It was the growth of the larger cities and their sprawling suburbs of middle class workers after the war that turned the state liberal. There are still many rural areas that are sparsely populated and conservative, but they are out voted by the coastal metropolitan areas. This same pattern can be seen in Illinois and New York, each state has one very large metropolitan area that outvotes the rest of the state. As Texas cities grow, they will also become a bigger voting block than the rest of the state. Since Texas doesn't want to plan or regulate growth, it will inevitably transition from a rural dominated culture to an urban one.
Before World War II, few families owned a car and only the wealthy owned more than one car. California still had San Francisco which had a trolley system prior to World War II. Also, New York City had a large naval industry prior to the 1950s; a large percentage New York City residents were employed in military related jobs during World War II. It was the closing of a Naval Yard in Brooklyn and defense contractor factories which contributed to the Dodgers and baseball Giants leaving New York City for California in the 1950s.
As a former Californian and a 20 year Texan, it scares me to see all the liberal Californians moving to Texas. It's high paid office workers how will destroy Texas. They think the solution to all problems is spend more money.
In other words liberals ruin states
California was republican well into the 1990’s.. what are you talking ab
boy, you hit the nail on the head.
I would say California is more being distributed between Texas and Georgia. Georgia is taking their entertainment industry, while Texas is taking their businesses.
I have heard about Hollywood moving to Atlanta, but not as much as Silicon Valley going to Texas. Would love to see a video about that!
@@jeffmora5161 I think Austin is doing a lot of tech stuff. Some of the chips from the chip shortage are being produced in Texas.
Cameron, when Georgia passed legislation to give tax credits to legitimate film projects of almost any size, I believe a couple decades ago, the migration of Hollywood to Georgia began. Several population tv shows and movies (like the Walking Dead) were filmed in Georgia, and Atlanta now has world-class sound and film production and post-production studios with more on the way. I think the other comments, that the transition to Georgia is slower than whats happening with Austin Texas are spot on though.
@@SomethingDifferentFilms Same with New Mexico since the mid 2000s. Both Netflix and Universal have opened up production studios in Albuquerque.
No we’re taking in a bunch of single moms and frustrated people in general stop with the fake optimism the succesful people are staying in cali we are getting the unsuccessful people hence why they are moving
At this point I’m just waiting for everyone to leave California so then I can move there
You’ll be waiting a while. Thousands of illegals are moving in every day. Lowering wages and raising the cost of living.
Lol not gonna happen. They bulldoze 20 unit apartments for a 5 unit one. They gonna keep doing that. It’s never gonna be cheap because they know people like you exist and know that CAN keep the prices high.
If it does become cheap, California can become the least desirable place to move to like Baltimore, Detroit or Flint.
Yeah I'm in Cali and you are welcome here 😂
@Y F Khan that will not happen this state of mine is beautiful 😂
When you factor all taxes in, state, local, property, sales, etc, someone of a median wage pays less effective tax rate in CA than in TX. I know people think it's the opposite, but CA's taxes are very progressive and skewed toward higher income. If you're wealthy, or upper middle class you're taxes will be lower in Texas, if you are middle class and working class either lower in CA or a wash. It's really not taxes that are driving migration to TX, it's almost entirely high cost of housing in CA. This isn't the first time this has happened either. When there have been other major housing spikes over the last several decades, you also saw an exodus of people out of CA. Then when housing prices crashed, the exodus stopped. Also, sometimes people forget that the average CA transplant to TX is more conservative than the average Texan. I know everything thinks CA is just full of far left communists or something, but more than 6 million Californians voted for Trump in 2020. That's more than entire population of many states.
If California was Communist housing would've been free and the state wouldn't exist due to the innate idea of Communism.
There’s no state income tax in Texas and the state sales tax is 5.5%. what
@@Da__goat you left out Texas' very high property tsx
I know what you are trying to say but let’s expand the thought. Who were the people who first came to California? The people from the other states. Really, this is just a big circle.
Population shifts have been part of the United States from the very beginning. It was the industrial revolution, the gold rush in California, migration to the Sun Belt region with the invent of the AC, the rise of big tech, then fin-tech, it really is quite astonishing. I enjoy the history of it all as much as I appreciate the story that is still being written.
Mainly people from Oklahoma originally.
True true true……….what we should be wondering is……..are they planning to have us as refugees throughout the United States………very scary…….but those shifts are quite circular and extremely beneficial for the use of bank loans………banks are always winning while we lose……..
Urban renewal, white flight, red lining, trail of tears, Reservations, project housing 😂 America was never meant to be United, that's why there were over 500 nations here. Time is almost up.
Despite our problems, California is still a wonderful place. It's definitely not "dying." Yes, we've lost some population, but after generations of massive growth, a lot of us born and bred Californians view that as a good thing. Truly and good thing. I'm in my 80s and the naysayers have been predicting the death of California for most of my life. It's fine. Have at it. Enjoy yourselves. We are.
As a recently retired Texas resident, I’m disgusted at the high cost of living, due to the extremely high property tax.
Whether it becomes another Cali hinges on how well it treats its low and middle income.
One of calis biggest issues that I can see is that it regulates very heavily but does nothing in return. The benefits(or should be) of regulation and taxes is to take money from everyone and then use it to benefit people overall(especially the lower or middle income who might struggle to afford critical services)
But Cali doesn't do this. It has the highest cost of living and housing and the biggest homeless problem in the country. If you take a lot from people for nothing in return they aren't going to stay there long
I agree with the sentiment of what your saying here, it's sort of like California having some of the nations worst pollution despite having the toughest environmental rules and regulations and of course the nations highest rate of taxation on gasoline.
@@SomethingDifferentFilms exactly, I completely forgot about the pollution but that's another example.
now I will preface this with that I am no social scientist or data analyst. rather its just my observations from visiting cali a few times and some very general knowledge about the politics of cali. So I could be wrong but so far this theory has held true from what I've observed.
Illinois is in almost identical of a situation, except folks leaving the state would be more likely to move to just about ANY neighboring state surrounding Illinois. Drive around the “main” cities of Central Illinois and then do the same in Southern Wisconsin & Iowa.
Yeah it's weird coming from New England where we have very high taxes but it is shown in our Schools and health care being some of the best.
It also has the highest homeless population because it is where the homeless can actually survive. This last week our lows were the upper 40s, low 50s. Not like the rest of the US where it was below freezing. Or during summers it is mild compared to many Southern states. Rarely gets into the 100s.
Biggest problem comparing Texas to California is how they tax. In Texas the top 1% earners pay 20% less taxes than the median earner. With the state losing more than 12 million from Elon alone. That tax burden is put on the poor that actually put their income back into the economy. So cost of living is lower, but the wage is lower and the sales taxes and property taxes are higher by % of income.
There is no state income tax in Texas , the property taxes are only higher in some areas around the big cities. Austin and Dallas are liberal shit holes . Living in smaller towns in Texas is much cheaper than in California. You really have no clue about living in Texas.
@@CodeOnBlocks To start with the majority of the Cali transplants are moving to the rural out skirt cities around the big metro areas. They can easily commute to the jobs in the big cities. The small town closest to me is around 10k population. In 22 over 1000 new homes were built in this area. The property taxes are about 1k per 200k home in value. Every person I've talked with that came here from Cali were amazed at how much more home and property they got here compared to what they paid in Cali for similar property. Most seem to realize that there liberal voting habits in Cali caused all the problems in the state. Many have admitted they have to rethink how they vote to keep Texas from turning into the same mess.
California has a higher poverty rate than Texas. Clearly with all the taxes and higher minimum wage, it isn't doing much against the poverty rate and homelessness. The benefit of not having a income tax is that you have greater choice. In Texas, you can choose to live in a expensive house and pay higher taxes or live in a expensive neighborhood, and choose how much you spend in general. In California, you have less choice. The benefit of a income tax is you can avoid property liens or reduce the chances of a lien assuming you still have a lower property tax. There is much more flexibility in land development in Texas compared to California. You can build cheap housing, affordable apartments, or more expensive housing, rents for the more affluent. In California they have more restrictions.
If a millionaire pays 90,000 in taxes, that's already more than most people pay.
Elon was in California for 20 years. Even middle class Texans pay a lot lower tax than California. It's not the same. A world of a difference. And our gas is less than $4.
To be fair, lot of Californians aren't originally from California as well.
If San Fransisco and Portland had a Baby, It Would be Austin. Born With Blue Hair and a Nose Ring
And just as racist
Are those nose rings chips connected to the brain in order to think in a certain way？
@@antihero9443 Probably 😂
More San Francisco and a silk road city like Tashkent, Bukhara, Ashgebat or Kabul if you ask me.
I'm a transplant to Texas from neighboring state of Oklahoma. The cost of living and no state taxes is a huge factor for the moves. Also a huge thriving job market.
Texas is getting horrible now. I'm born and raised...it's a different state at this point. The cost of living, housing prices, the traffic. It's over populated and it's only getting worse.
I grew up in Texas and sadly, I don’t think that swamp will ever have beautiful mountains and dramatic coastlines with near perfect weather every day. Texas to me will always be a backwoods swamp that people only move to for family or affordability. California is where people go to live the good life and chase their dreams. I just don’t see my home state becoming a place like that.
I’m IN CA and had a chance to live in TX for a while. Weather is the only redeeming thing about CA, and even then, it’s starting to become untenable due to the droughts here.
Texas weather is ok if you live on the Gulf Coast
True cali have nice mountains and so does west /&&Central Texas But to say cali's coastlines is dramatic as if your talking abt the beaches in Florida or Hawaii is laughable in itself🤣🤷♂️💯
@@Miss_TEXAS_713 lmao Florida beaches aren’t near as pretty. Okay yeah HAWAII obviously has everyone beat but as far as the contiguous states, CA and OR look the best by the ocean, especially northern CA and pretty much anywhere in Oregon. Washington doesn’t have much accessible coast and their weather sucks for the beach but at least it’s there. My last beach trip in Texas had an “oily” vibe and I didn’t want to stay very long. Big oil has ruined Texas :/
@@Miss_TEXAS_713 Where are these mountains in Central Texas? I can't find Mt. Denial on the map 🤣
It’s not so much who’s moving here, but it’s their mindsets they are bringing with them. Bipolarism
the weather in Texas during the summer is awful. Can't imagine why people from California where the weather is perfect would wanna move here.
It got to 115 degrees where I’m from in socal, but it was dry heat so cooling down was a lot easier
Because weather isn't everything.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 it is if you live in Texas
As a lifelong Bay Area resident, I'm thrilled to hear that the tech avalanche that completely shitted on our region is starting to take its business elsewhere. Everyone's housing costs being decided by wages in an industry that only employs a small fraction of our residents has made millions of people here miserable. It's also a huge factor in why theft is rampant.
The reason housing in the Bay Area is so high is because the only thing that's allowed to be built on 90% of the land is a single family house. Those houses go for like $1.5M and everyone who can't afford that needs to compete for an apartment in the 10% of land left over. It's been nearly impossible to build more housing in the Bay Area for about 50 years now due to exclusionary zoning and that's why housing is so expensive. In essence, homeowners rigged the housing market by creating artificial scarcity.
yea itd be cool if they didnt come to texas and screw the place ive lived in for 15 years now. i was expecting to be able to buy a house by 25 but now that's seemingly impossible. but it's great that californians are coming here and having a good time i guess lmao
@@nathanu6074 If Texans wanted to keep housing prices down, they would repeal exclusionary zoning. That's completely within control of Texas cities.
@@mariusfacktor3597 How did Homeowners rig the housing market? If anyone is to blame it's SF City planning for not changing the zoning. Also it's a tiny peninsula, there's only so much space to build man.
@@nathanu6074 There are plenty of places around Austin that are still affordable. Buda, Kyle, the south east and north east.
Lol people talking about how California is finished are just stupid. The state will continue to be the richest in the US, Yes Texas is rising and they is nothing wrong with that. But what people don’t get get is that within the capitalist framework of our economy Texas is simply the next best place for higher returns on investments like property like California was. Once those returns dry up as property prices go up,salaries go up you will see the same thing that happened to cali happened to Texas with people moving to Oklahoma or something. It’s nothing but the business cycle of things. But what will save states like cali or is saving NY is that the business they generate are world class entities , bringing billions. So despite people who can’t afford it are leaving, just like the video stated they still attract highly educated individuals who go on to earn fat salaries to afford living there. This is the reason why places like NYC despite being called overpriced and dangerous have stood at the top for decades and will continue to do so. This can being seen with business like Goldman’s Sachs building a new super skyscraper in NYC instead of leaving for places like Texas or Ohio or whatever because NYC/ NY just has advantages for business like these can’t be anywhere else.
Just remember that New York still has almost double the economic output as Florida despite Florida having 1.5 X New York's population.
This is a win, win. People are leaving CA and “ruining” Texas at the same time. 😂
@Kay A lol, good one.
F u but true
If Texas is so great how could anyone ruin it sounds you don’t even believe your own lies
And how's that a good thing?
So that would be a lose lose then? Pretty sure you got your definitions mixed up. All the idiotic extremist morons who dont know how things like equality, laws, rights, governance, functional society and the constitution work need be contained in 1 place and keep ruining the only places they have ruined so far and leave the rest of the normal places alone. So the fact that they are doing the opposite of that is a lose lose. Not sure I understand your logic
Born and raised in TX. All my neighbors in a new suburb are from California. I've noticed all the Californias moving to Texas are the poor California's. No wealthy Californian will prefer flat, dry, hot TX over California.
Only 44% of Texas is flat. The rest is mountains, hills, and slopes. Texas has the 2nd largest canyon in the U.S. and miles and miles of forests.
California actually gets hotter than Texas, especially in the high desert by Death Valley it gets to 110 over there.
Dry TX? Houston, Dallas, and Austin are some of the most humid cities in the country.
@jonshasteen3474 I think what they mean is Texas doesn't get nowhere near enough rain.
@aidenrokez8629 Well I have family in Texas, and I don't visit them in the summer because I just can't stand the burning hot weather there.
There's no news here. Here in texas, we've been saying this for a decade now. On top of that, I grew up in California in the 1980s and it was exactly the way Texas is now. There's no secret that this place is going to turn into California and there's no secret that when that happens, I'm getting the fuck out of here.
But wherever you go, others will go too!
California in the 1980s had a higher percentage of Catholic, Asian, and foreign born US citizens than Texas has today. Texas has always had a higher percentage of Black American Protestants than California.
Nice professional video. No income tax in Texas, but Texas has a high property tax. (Texans know what I am talking about)
New Hampshire is the same, just much smaller in population and square mileage.
Yeah, that's a regressive tax system for the average Joe and working class.
@@mmmd3429 Property taxes are not regressive. People with higher incomes are more likely to own larger homes and more total properties, which means they pay the most in property taxes than poor people do.
@@user-hm1zb8js5i You don't know what regressive means and you skipped over the income tax portion. One star rating.
Exactly, this has been a trend for many years. People moving from states like California, Illinois and New York to states like Texas and Florida.
@Big Dick Black California has been posting net negative population growth since the start of the 2020's, so while millions had been leaving California for some time now (with slightly more moving in than out keeping the numbers slightly positive) its now outright losing a small but meaningful portion of it's population.
New York to Florida is far more retired people than low income families.
The only parts of Texas I really like were Austin and the Big Bend. All of California rocks. Texas is OK, if you can't afford California.
@@highguycomics3869 You know SFA about where I live. I'm speaking from the point of view of a tourist having traveled extensively in both.
Texas, Georgia and Florida about to become so libral.
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I’ve lived in California for decades now and I still love it. You’re talking about the bad parts of California only. Texas has horrible areAs as well especially in Houston and Dallas. Texas cannot be California. We have the best weather here. I don’t mind paying taxes as long as I enjoy the weather all year round.
Californian born, raised, and still living. Our state is a shell of what it used to be. Please take your head out of the sand.
Yes, Dallas was ZERO DEGREES for awhile..a few days before Christmas
CA doesn't have that problem
At one time, CA was like TX..even SF bay area used to have Rodeos
California decades back become the next big apple
California native here. I love it here too. I’m glad Texas is taking people away. Hopefully it puts downward pressure on prices here. And since tech has been moving to Texas, they get to experience what we have been for decades. A bunch of high income employees coming in and buying up all the properties and further increasing real estate and other cost of living expenses in their cities making it unaffordable for almost everyone else. Good luck!
The weather is definitely one of the best things about California. And because of that, there are always going to be people wanting to live here. So we won’t ever see a mass exodus or a big price drop from outward migration and lower demand.
That rodeo between Hayward and Castro Valley is still there! I believe there are still frequent events.
When I went to Texas, all of a sudden I was the skinny one.
hahaha, however in Texas everything is...well, Bigger.
@@amaliacoria3063 The Walmarts, trailer parks, and gas stations as well 🤣
It honestly depends upon what part of Texas you're in. Lots of skinny, fashionable people in Dallas. Houston? Notsomuch... You don't get between a Houstonian and his steak!
Texad can't even keep the power on now
Curious to see how remote work may affect this migration. If I can work anywhere, why would I pick either state. One way ticket to the Carribean please. (Grew up in Los Angeles, live in Houston).
Activities. For example, my hobbies are dancing and hiking. So I want to live somewhere that has options for both those activities.
Texas currently and California during there growth period have a very similar culture. Both really embraced car culture, both really embraced the highway, and both really embraced single family house houses and sprawl. Texas really needs to embrace walkability, bikeability, and transit, as well mixed use zoning laws with a lot of missing middle housing. I actually would consider adopting Japan's Zoning Laws and The Netherlands bike infrastructure. On a positive note Houston, Austin, and Dallas has much better transit systems than Los Angeles did in 1980 or 1990, but suburbs like Arlington need to readdress their transit policy and join in with Trinity and Dart and cities like San Antonio needs to wake up.
We need to nationalize our transit systems. We already nationalized our roads. Now it's time to complete the system by nationalizing transit.
But Los Angeles blows Houston, Austin, and Dallas in public transit infrastructure out of the water today. A lot of what was missing in 1980s and 1990 was built within the last 25 years
@@danmur2797 LA has made great progress, but it was too late when they started to address this. Dallas has the longest light rail network in the US and they started before Dallas started to get out of control. Dallas still has a very long ways to go however.
@@jdredwine7224 LA now has the 3rd largest public rail network (light rail, subway and commuter rail lines) in the country after NYC and Chicago. Surpassing cities like Boston, DC, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
It's true LA started late (after its trolley system was dismantled), but it's leapt forward in the last 30 years.
Better late than never. It's population also grew the fastest between 1920-1990, not just the 80s and 90s.
The challenge now is to expand public rail to every corner of the conurbation--LA MSA covers more than 2000 sq miles and 18 million people.
No they don't. Yeah they embraced cars, highways and single family homes, but CA does not and never had the Alamo, does not and never had the Andalucian cult of the brave and brazenly masculine, and most importantly to the present discussion, does not and never had the potent combination of good manners and common sense that gives Texans a nearly impossible ability to work through nearly anything. California was always a selfish and close-minded place, both as a red state and a blue state. Texas is an individualistic place, but has the integrity to live with honor and to have certain shared notions of how people should be treated that allow real discussion and learning to happen.
I hope Texas doesn’t become an overpriced homeless encampment. I recently visited Austin and loved it.
Texas is a more rural state than most of the United States. Southern States hide their homeless population by making it easier for people to live in trailer parks; only a few large cities see homeless encampments thanks to a lack of affordable housing.
I think Texas politics right now is going to slow its growth. The Southern Baptist Church is flexing its muscles in that state right now. A lot of more secular-minded people are wanting to leave. The state is wanting to dissolve the city of Austin since the population there is so socially progressive. The problem with California is its cost of living. Everything else hinges on that. If you can afford it, California is still one of the best places in the country to live for overall quality of life and things to do. Problem is, most can't afford it.
As a homeowner outside the Bay Area my mortgage is 1400 per month that includes property taxes and insurance.
Californias could careless about those who choose to move away .
I personally prefer more of those that do not like the politics and the way we do things leave .
The opportunity are endless here and the climate is generally mild 70-90 degrees all year .
The beaches , ocean , snow , mountains redwoods are all within a few hours .
There is a reason people from all over the world come here .
If your government keeps things up, you won't have a state for people to visit much longer:
- Massive water shortages, and the government's response has been 'too expensive to build production infrastructure, let's wait it out and hope it rains'. (Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. If only someone would build some nuclear-powered desalinization plants.)
- Strained Power Grid. Poorly maintained high-tension line right of ways.
- Horribly mismanaged forest and wildland control leading to catastrophic wildfires that have wiped entire towns off the map.
- A homelessness crisis of unbelievable magnitude. Leading to extremely hazardous conditions (trash buildup, fire hazards, drugs, biowaste on the streets, literal dark age diseases popping up).
- Uncontrolled and rising crime. Partly because nobody will do anything about it. And partly because when something is done, it's a revolving door with a slap on the wrist and a punch card (Get a free frosty after being released your tenth time!). I mean seriously, when your response to vehicle break-ins is the motor vehicle equivalent to turning out your pockets so you don't get mugged, you are FAR beyond 'problem' and firmly in 'crisis' territory. When common chain stores are closing locations because of losses to looting, you have a crisis.
- Social welfare programs that prioritize giving free things to people instead of directing those resources to any number of support jobs that could help relieve the previously pointed out problems. (While putting the destitute to work for pay no less! [Insert Mind Blown image here].)
- Absurdly overblown taxes to try and pay for everything above, but falls short, resulting in struggling to keep everything funded... Creating a kind of death spiral that's causes all these problems to worsen.
*_Tilts head to side._*
The view of the bay area must be *_amazing_* from the glass house you live in at the top of that mountain.
It's like watching a poorly run Sim City game in real time. There's a point where the poor management begins a domino effect of collapse. First comes the abandoned buildings. Then comes dropping the city services in order to save money lost from the missing tax base that just left, which only makes the causes of sim dissatisfaction worse. Then comes more abandoning... then services cuts branch into jacking up the taxes to try and compensate for an ever increasing deficit, which just drives more sims out and reduces the number coming in, then entire districts begin to collapse, having a knock on effect in reducing desirability further from stacking negative factors, and by the time you've hit this point the budget has collapsed, you've taken all the loans, and the violent mob with the torches and pitchforks are kicking down your office door and _OH GOD NOT THE FAC-_ *[CONNECTION TERMINATED]*
Shockingly, when you carve out the middle class and have nothing but contempt for the lower class, your foundation for your stratified society... _crumbles._ And for those in situations like yours, everything is fine...
_Until it isn't._
I would really like to pause the game and do some micromanaging.
@@atigerclaw Texas doesn’t have water neither,
@@twostop6895
We used to. Then the Californians started moving in. And I'd like some Nuclear Desal here as well.
$1,400 in the Bay Area??? That's BULLSHT!! i was there in the Early 90's & a 2 Bedroom was that then!!
@@vegasmitch1472 I am 1 hour outside Bay Area
My mortgage, tax , insurance is 1400$ total per month
Honestly as a person who was born and raised in Texas I see more out of state plates now then our own and honestly hate it I really can’t stand it rent here has gone up from 900-1000 to 2000-2400 it’s getting really crazy in the main cities and I’ve never been more miserable please stop coming here
The cost of living was famously low a decade ago, now it's only "cheap" when compared to place like California where the cost of living is outright outrageous.
Where do you think they should go to instead of Texas?
@@woah99 Mexico
@@alexandrade7835 what part?
@@woah99 we dont really give a shit, shouldn't be our problem
People homeless in Cali because of the cost of living, in Texas because the pay is low, support system broken, policies evil, and despair.
texas is now majority hispanic at 40.2%, crazy how fast the demographics are changing.
Hispanic are concentrated in the cities and Southern Texas. The White are still majority in the countries
What do you expect? It was once México. The southwest will always remain predominantly Hispanic.
If you move to Texas, move to a smaller city 1hr away from major cities like Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio. Cheaper and future proof from becoming overcrowded
Some will say this will never happen. I do remember back when California, Colorado, and Washington where strong red states. Fast forward 30 years, you have a massive shift in voting and policy.
The blue wave from other states have come to Georgia as well. I think it will take another 10 years and Georgia will be a solid dark blue state due to those moving from the north east and Illinois. The problem with people coming from those areas, they think they could do it better this time around. The results will be the same.
Maybe or maybe not. Some of California's issues is because of its geography and zoning laws, not because it's an LGBTQ-friendly state and a state that protect's women's bodily autonomy.
@@bchristian85 damn those gays making people homeless!!!!! 😠😠😠😔😔😔
@@bchristian85 You just could not resist to try and push politics on everything right? I feel sorry for you if this all you think about everyday, you must have a miserable life. I could care less about gays and abortion, I vote based on other things. I hope blue states start going with govt assisted suicide programs like Canada.
@@bchristian85 No it's not just that, their policy on crime alone is a massive disaster. Not holding criminals accountable for their actions, defunding the police while also disarming people with their gun control laws. Liberals loves chaos, they hate law and order because only through chaos these politicians are able to have some grip onto their positions. Liberal cities like California, Chicago etc, seems to be letting these criminals out on purpose. People like you are stupid enough to vote these politicians solely because of "Lgbtq" and "Womens" rights.
Don't be scared of higher wages and worker rights. That southern propaganda has you folks twisted 🤣
After destroying their own state they want to move elsewhere 😂.
“If we can’t live in a place that isn’t a bankrupt, corrupt, overcrowded, over taxed, morally bankrupt, overpriced, Stalinist toilet then NO ONE CAN! Muuuuaaaaa-hahahahaha!”
So people can't move out in a different part of America?
@@user-ho1ih1uj6w NO stay where u at
@@Juan_deep I don't live in America senior juanito
Where do you think all these people originally came from? For the last several decades, everyone from all over the US was moving into California. Now they are leaving and going elsewhere. Have fun going through what us native Californians have been dealing with the last 40 years or so.
Illinois is still a prosperous state. Another look at the 2020 census revealed the exodus wasn't as big, for now. You show a picture of Chicago, but the Chicagoland area gained in population. It was the other parts of the state of Illinois, like central & southern Illinois that saw more of the population decline. It is disappointing that IL did lose residents, with that said it was mainly coming from areas outside of the Chicagoland metro area. That is sad to see and hopefully that can be reversed, but there's limitations as to what can be done or made for that. There are cool places outside of the Chicago area like the Quad Cities on the Mississippi River. While New York and California also have issues I have my doubts about how many people are really flocking out of those states. A more detailed analysis is needed like whose is flocking out and why, more than a one sentence word in your description. Illinois has problems that need to be looked into as well, but I would argue those are all still good states. Florida, Utah, and Texas also have their own problems and flaws. These problems vary from state to state. Utah has an issue with water shortages as more people move to Utah they'll have to find ways to handle the water supply, Texas has a similar problem also experiencing multiple droughts. I watched a video that suggested that Florida is becoming more and more expensive to live in as more people move there. It may impact the locals who have lived there for decades. Still a lot of opportunities in the Chicagoland area. New developments within Chicago itself like the 78 development and the Lincoln Yards development. Along with developments in the suburbs.
There's the bones of good cities in Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, and even Indianapolis. But the zoning and transportation issues need to get sorted. Tear down the car dependant infrastructure and single family sprawl and replace with trains, trams, bikes, pedestrians and multi family housing for middle class budgets.
In NYS if you look up counties by population I think all the NYC boroughs experienced growth with brooklyn gaining 11% more people and suffolk county on long island was the only big county to lose population nassau county gained. The small counties were losing population. Im assuming people are moving out from areas that are poorer. While people are still actively moving to the cities
Illinois is a government bankruptcy waiting to happen.
I’m from Mississippi, and just recently moved to southern Illinois last year, (Carterville to be exact, near Carbondale). It’s a nice area. My quality of life has improved since I’ve moved here. I am doing better here than I was back in Mississippi. I make more money, have a nice apartment, and hopefully soon, I’ll buy a home. And not just that, we got a lot of recreational activities in Shawnee. It’s truly a hidden gem and the falls are more colorful than back home. Yes, Illinois got its problems and it’s poor in some places. But it’s a big improvement from where I’ve came from. And for someone that wants to move to Florida, it would benefit more for people who are more wealthy, than it would benefit from working class people.
And on the plus side, I am allowed to be an adult, not be treated like a criminal over a plant, and I can get my alcohol in the same county, without traveling to different counties to get it. Because they still have alcohol sales that are not legal in certain counties.
The growth is stagnant in Illinois. It’s one of the only states losing population right now. It might not be that fast now but in a few decades it’s definitely gonna hurt the state. And it’s not sustainable for one city(Chicago) to be the only prosperous part of an entire state. U can’t leave the millions of ppl outside the Chi behind
I just move from Texas to California 😂so far so good 👌
That’s why I’m leaving Texas Smfh this is absolutely sad and it’s time to go..the crime rate and cost of living has gone up..I gotta go..Texas never been this bad since Katrina Smfh
@Kay A just the cities that aren't in the middle of nowhere
Property tax and property insurance in Texas will outweigh anything California throws at you.
When you combine all tax burdens, California far exceeds Texas.
Nothing beats california 5 dollars Gas
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 I know this will blow your mind, but gas buddy proves that you're liar 🤣
Texas has that sweet sweet $7.25 minimum wage!
@@mmmd3429 I'm talking about california gas prices dumbass
If/when Texas becomes identical to present day California, literally everyone between the Mississippi River, I-20, US 81 or 281 & Sioux Falls best become prepared on getting priced out next.
Not only because of Texas’s medium term outlook but Florida also potentially running out of room, Atlanta getting increasingly expensive, and NC already growing fast enough to the point where most medium sized cities statewide HAVE BEEN building brand new beltways from scratch.
Historically all booms eventually go bust and then someplace(s) else fills the void. The “rust belt” was supposedly THE place to be around this time 100 years ago… look at many of those same METROPOLITAN area statistics over the past 50 years.
Exactly! And just 20 years ago, the rust belt was more expensive than it was in the south! But today; that’s a total different story!
Damn that means Arkansas is next 😳
Most of Florida is barely above sea level. In 100 years the coastal cities will be flooded and millions will have to move.
So, which state will be the next Texas?
California will always be desirable as it is geographically beautiful.
earthquakes, wild fires, floods, traffics, high housing cost etc... no thanks
@@maytrang671Texas : bad weather racism no rights no thanks
With the exception of Austin, most of the ca residents are not democrats. So they will not CA your TX. I lived in Texas as a kid . Now it’s just the overpopulation that would drive me nuts if I still lived in Tx.
Oh, Texans would just love this! I'm just curious where people would move after they have exhausted Texas
Most likely to Arizona, Tennessee, Florida, and Colorado. Longer term to Nevada and Idaho.
If they are able to tolerate a legit winter then it’s almost an inevitability they’ll be SWARMING the entirety of the Eastern Great Plains; from OKC/Tulsa all the way to Sioux Falls.
Precovid to present, many of their larger metropolitan areas appear significantly more successful than most of the entire Midwest, much less the Great Lakes.
Colorado and Tennessee for sure
@@Pandemicjoe probably back to California since it would probably be cheap and still somewhat big by then.
No matter where you decide to live, it's hard to beat the climate California offers. California dreaming is no longer. Too many people. Soon, Texas will be be the same.
no wonder the cost of living in austin is absolutely insane. i saw a two bedroom apt for almost $5k a month!! my mom lives in a small town near the border of MX and she pays $750 for a 3 bed townhome 😭 as for me i live about 30 minutes from austin and i pay $979 for a one bed but it’s going up next year cause of this shit 😵💫
I am from CA born and raised, I know atleast 7 families that moved in the last 5 years, primary reason taxes and housing and all these folks transferred work from CA, so they did not have to job hunt, but some are already disappointed about property Taxes and Traffic, these folks are dems and I know they will Vote Dem , Texas will lose its republican Status if this trend continues
Crime has always been horrible in Dallas and Houston
That's true, and the crisis on the border is turning the Rio Grande Valley in to the worlds largest crime ghetto. It's a narcopocalypse down there!
I think Virginia is becoming the new California whole time. Really I started seeing a lot of west coast folks and western folks in Virginia. From Cali to Oregon to Washington to New Mexico and even Arizona. I only seen maybe one or two Colorado plates and one Nevada plates but it’s mostly Cali, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.
I don’t mind the cost of living given the beautiful weather CA gives me year long and the peace of mind knowing I have disability insurance and paid family leave. There’s actually a lot of benefits. Heck I was able to be off 6months off with my baby last year. Paid Family leave is crucial and we are pioneers in it.
And also as a nurse we have patients ratios, can’t beat that.
People in Texas cannot comprehend the benefits. Preach!
Plus worker rights as well.
Must be nice to have money. The rest of us aren’t so lucky.
@@tylerkriesel8590 i dont have money but I know the importance of paying taxes and see how they directly benefit the people, hence my paid family leave with my baby. Plus I worked my ass off for my degree and work my ass off for my money. It's not luck, it's hard work.
Yes it's been California in many ways and I'm not talking culturally, even if we became more liberal it still be it's own kind compared to Cali, we have always been the same because California use to be a pro business state until they realized 1. Local government and mega Corps can only force each other to do stuff to a point and 2. Companies will destroy the state if the state allows them to, then won't flip the tab for the repairs. Or will just leave when things go bust.
Texas will become a communist state just like California does. This is all planned, when you have idiots moving to Texas and voting the same way as they do in California, Texas will be destroyed just as planned and you have the Liberals to thanked for that.
I Agree In Full, & I wish many others would see these same things.
Folks, there's only one Texas and one California. What makes 'em special is their distinctiveness. Migration is a fact of life. Its a tenet of American freedom.
Stuff happens, folks move.
I have bodily autonomy in California, I do not in TX. That is honestly all that matter to me.
California made rape of unconscious women and children non violent crime few years back with prop 47 ans 57. Yes they really do care about you
So leave?
Imagine basing your whole life around the ability to murder your child vs not being able to murder your child. Sick
@@keeganbrown9967 your gender discrimination is showing
@@cameronspence4977 I won't even travel to TX for a visit lol
So basically San Francisco is moving to Austin... because California is not the exact same everywhere. While SF is more liberal, San Diego is definitely more conservative.. This place is too big and wide to nail down as it all being the exact same.
San Diego County us becoming Purple so is Orange County but I get what you are saying.
@@robertmartinjr.4537 purple.. you mean shifting??
@@Dre_Key yes
@@robertmartinjr.4537 Interesting... First time ive heard this but im intrigued. Wish that was followed up by costs but its not lol. I hate that im even thinking about leaving here.
@@Dre_Key it is what is things change. There is a shelf life for everything in all facets of life.
You can make Los Angeles look like
Anywhere in the world but you can’t make anywhere in the world look like Los Angeles and that’s why Hollywood ain’t going nowhere
Expect for Atlanta smh
Los Ángeles is just a bunch of mid century strip malls with palm trees , San Antonio and South Texas are the exact same .
@@jonkiyosaki6600take the industry and all the democrats that come with it. You will soon experience a blue texas 😉
It already went to Atlanta lmfao
I can shit on the streets in my city and leave some dirty needles behind, so it can look more like LA
RIP Texas
I’m looking at moving back to the Japan. The American Dream has turned out to be a nightmare.
To be fair Japan has been dealing with several of their own problems, from economic weakness in recent years to very problematic levels of mental health struggles.
People fleeing California because it’s too expensive here. Hence why 2/3rds that left are low income earners. We’ve had people flooding into California for decades which made everything go up in price. Thank you Texas for taking some of these people from us. Hope more go and make things more affordable for those of us California natives.
For those who want to end all the single family households and move towards high density urban environments, just realize that the suburbanization of the US has helped us demographically. High density cities have much lower birth rates and most countries around the world are suffering from demographic collapse in the near future. More space has helped encourage larger family growth in the US and is what will give us an advantage in the coming decades with a workforce, capital, and consumption that most other countries will be collapsing without.
All Texas needs to go Blue is about 2.5 million Democrats who care enough to consistently vote. That could happen in 6 years.
Why would you want Texas to turn blue? That's disgusting. The party that constantly violates constitutional rights and seeks to destroy it should not be in power.
Living here for 15 months, working for big company . But I’m ready to move out again. People aren’t friendly, driving like 3rd world country, sales tax is high, property tax is high, took me 5 months to get appointments at DMV to change my license to Texas. Everything here is difficult and aggressive ( people , driving, weather, business permits :/ )
We appreciate your take on this. We all hope to see more videos on this. God bless you.
Thank you Sophia Isabelle, I appreciate your kind words.
And yet they still vote just like they did in California and wonder what went wrong?
It’s all about how badly the middle class gets taxed. Texas doesn’t take from its middle class and is big on personal responsibility. The American dream still works when it’s up to you to get it.
Only true Texans know what's really going on.
SPEAK!
The enemy comes to steal and destroy, but the LORD will win the war.
It's amazing when people leave places because their state or country has either gotten too expensive to live or has fallen do to a ruined economy, they go to a place that is far better than where they fled and the first thing they do is try to change the new place to be like the place they left. Ruining your new home is the worst thing you can do.
Except the migration of people that is being discussed isn't really happening. At least, not in the high numbers that many would like to believe.
I am 50 and I have lived in cali my entire life ...there are two California..the good one of my youth and the one that is corrupt and crumbling apart today..its heartbreaking to see what has been done to this once beautiful place..only the wealthy can enjoy the state now.. it is full of either the super wealthy or the dirt poor..no middle ground here anymore..this whole nation is falling apart but here quicker
The poor young and immigrants, wealthy tech/film industry, and the boomers that bought their houses when they were affordable. All these suburbs are full of white haired empty nesters.
Because the people that runs California are bunch of foreign agents attacking us from the inside, they know they can't beat us in a War-like scenario that's why they have to resort to this.
It's not falling apart it just look like the 70s again
I am in middle ground.
Drama queen. Get away from the coast and it’s still heaven.
Something they tend to leave out is that the majority of Californians moving to Texas isn't by choice, but because their job forces them to move there (because a lot of big jobs from California move to Texas). This cracks me up because Texans keep claiming Californians go there because it's "better", but nah, it's either move there or end up jobless and possibly homeless.
Who's fault is that though. 100% blue voting Californians. At certain distant past, it was the opposite when California was not overly Democratic.
Only problem, is with Texas growing, the Rio Grande valley will continue to deteriorate as more and more people rely on the river.
Someone has to say it🤷
If you left a heavy Blue state 🔵 and left it because of high prices, education and high crimes, don't go to a Red State 🟥 trying to change it.
My family moved away and have changed our way of thinking and voting. ♥️
#DontCaliforniaMyTexas
You haven't looked at any of the statistics? Oh yeah, red states rely on California for the federal dollars. Pump your brakes chump.
If you have a Confederate flag and don't want to work around people who are not native born White Protestants, don't apply for jobs in Blue cities. You move to a Blue city you better change your religion.
I'm voting either for a Actual Socialist not Democrats (Free Housing for all not just the poor) and Libertarian not Republicans (Lower Taxes which allows me to afford moderate or higher rent)
I'm voting for cheaper cost of living.
Most of the people leaving the Blue States are the red folks. You'll be alright.
The politician culture is about to change their in Texas in due time...Cali is a blue state while Texas is red smh
Texas must maintain affordable housing and good business, living, home taxations. That way it will definitely overcome California's economy.
Affordable housing depends on Developers & landlords. Supply & demand. Unless you want the government to provide housing like Cuba etc..
@@andrewfreeman88 it's largely about zoning which Texas isn't doing great in. But then again it's geography is better suit for sprawl than California's
@@bruhbutwhytho zoning and developers. Texas doesn't need to build UP. Only in downtown core cities does that work. CA has too many cars and people in urban areas creating more crime & issues.
@@andrewfreeman88 It doesn't need to but it should, that's the most economically sound thing to do.
@@bruhbutwhytho Well it is in Austin. It is geographically and logically sound not economically. Economically would be vast urban sprawl.
I live in warm southern California while the rest of the U.S. freezes. LOL
California and Florida are the only 2 states that barely get cold lol
@@joshuaandino
Tu estas correcto.
@@joshuaandino Hawaii would like to have a word with you. :)
Texas will be a blue states in less than ten years. Remember Colorado and soon Arizona. I love Austin (the Portland/San Francisco of Texas) I can't afford it today. I should have bought a property six years ago. The traffic on 35 is like the 405 in LA and rapidly catching up with the Atlanta area. Like Atlanta and LA public transportation was an after thought. My family is from Texas and I own property in Texas but I'm staying put in Cali. She's is just too beautiful to leave and like most breathtakingly beautiful women, they don't come cheap
Maybe in 2040. Georgia will probably become a blue state by 2030 tho
Yep, she is not perfect but absolutely Gougeous 🙂
Of course Texas will just become another California. The USA has a bigger problem at its core, and apparently no one is looking at it.
The car centric suburbia just doesn't work. It's not sustainable. The more people move into a city, the more highways and streets within the cities have to be build. But since the streets within the city can't become more wide, you are just stuck in traffic. When it comes to housing. When you build only single family homes, the prices are going to skyrock just like in California.
The USA has a concept of living that is just not sustainable. It's weird that people try to repeat the same over again and don't learn anything from it. I guess that's what some people call stupidity.
Very cool content, I was born in Karachi but have been in US for about 10 years. Would love to see your take on that city
Thank you Knightrider, my knowledge of cities and regions outside of the US is less in-depth, however I am sure I will eventually do more research on international locations.
The thing working against my home state, is that Texas has a ridiculous amount of flat land to build on, and thats even despite the notoriously chaotic weather
Lived in Austin from 99 to 2010. It was a epic place to live
Idaho is also suffering from California too, these idiots don't understand why they're leaving California 😢
That sucks. Those Cali rats have already destroyed WA, I don't want to see Idaho suffer the same fate.
More than half are aliens from Mexico.
Lots of places in the south are growing like crazy.
To bad nothing is being done to improve infrastructure.
Not like there is any way to change what's been done without a lot of money and effort and time.
It's not looking pretty.
Not Arkansas(my home state) Louisiana and Mississippi. We’re the last of the real South. Soon as Texas start to become over populated they’ll all flock east to our states I already can see our cities like Fayetteville and Little Rock becoming overcrowded 10/15 years from now.
A lot of Texans moved to Colorado, it kinda sucks.
Californians live a lot longer than Texans. They rank #4 while Texas ranks #30 in longest lifespans. Complain all you want about blue states having bigger problems. They do have more homelessness, drugs, and inflation but aside from that most of the people are healthier/fitter, better educated, and have nicer things.
Texas is rated dead last in health care.
@@lakenneth374 not to mention their backwards hyper-privatized power grid. All that oil and a few crooked CEOs letting people freeze to maximize profiteering.
@@kylecarney2149Please use these facts in future comments: 2021 Venture Capital Funding: #1 California @ 97 billion and #4 Texas @ 5 billion. Plus, Texas is a federal welfare state - pays less to the federal government than gets back. Counties won in the last Presidential election by Democrats make up 70% of all U.S. economic output, and the reality is that blue states are financially "SUPPORTING" the red states.
Four years ago, I spent a few months in the Austin area. Freeway traffic was terrible, seemingly as bad as in the S.F. Bay Area. That was BEFORE Tesla's arrival and continued population growth. Austin is a great place, but traffic may make it hard to live there if one wants to get around.
If Californians bring their liberal views with them to Texas, they will turn Texas into another California. However, if they can adjust their views to be more conservative or middle of the road moderates, then Texas should thrive. I grew up in Cali. Moved to North Carolina when the liberals ruined the state. California wasn't always like this. We've had Republican Governors and GOP majorities in the legislature in the past, but Cali is the poster child for Progressives nowadays, and we are seeing the results of that (just like in NYC and Chicago....) High crime rates, over-regulation of businesses (causing them to flee the state), hippie-dippy far Left lunatics, sky high gas and housing prices, etc. Just my two cents.
Texas is made up of squatting slave owners who got their azzes kicked by Santa Anna. Lets cut the Conservative bs when its really racism. Lets Go, Bonespurs!
I think the problem is just too much growth and politicians being corrupt. I don't really think that it's a red vs blue thing.
Here is another observation. California Republicans took the emerging demographics lightly and did not engage in meaningful outreach of a newer emerging voter block. Republicans stayed static and paid for it politically speaking. I think Republicans can become relevant again in Cali they just have to fine tune their core message. Moderate Republicans do well in Democratic strongholds. It comes to sticking to their core principles but also compromise on certain issues in a majority blue state.
@@robertmartinjr.4537 I agree with that assessment.
corporations are destroying america. these corporations are buying all the houses and land while pushing locals outs and hiring there own
Same with lots of other states, some in the Midwest and New England (including the ones in the description)
It’s really sad what’s happening to our beautiful Texas. It’s understandable why so many Californians are moving here, but, Texans hate all the garbage they are bringing with them.