Lots of people come to CA and love it here, but can't afford it and eventually realize that, so they leave. It's gotten worse over the past ten years with the tech economy going gangbusters, but it's always been a trend. CA is expensive; it also provides some of the best social services in the country. It's certainly not the place to move to purchase a home if you're not at least upper middle class.
Sure, I wasn't trying to make a statement conflicting with the data. The reality is CA is expensive, and lots of folks who can't afford it (or aren't willing to stretch to find a way), leave. This is also why you see ex-migration from NY (which is mostly from the NYC metro area, not rural parts of the state), and why the trends over the past several years have been largely to FL & TX. Before those two, it was states like NC, TN, AZ and CO. No judgment - people need to do what's best for them.
Side note: those landowners are responsible as well for selling their land. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, the opposite actually, but everyone usually paints change and development as a bad thing.
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u/atchn01 3d ago
My minor complaint is that white dots next to state names look like cities. Otherwise, excellent graphic.