And then many of them leave Texas to go back to California. While many people moved from California to Texas in the early years of the pandemic; in 2023 the trend was a greatly increasing number of people moving from Texas to California. Texas is a shiathole state. Just ask the many people in Houston who are still waiting for power. And don't forget to thank Greg Abbott for the third world conditions in Texas.
If you read the articles you posted you would see that many of the people moving back to California were remote workers from California tech
If you read the articles you would find that most moved back because they could not put up with the shiathole culture in Texas.
I've been almost everywhere in California and the state can be summed up like this: The coast from Crescent City to San Diego: Beautiful scenery, but completely overrun by homeless drug addicts (usually meth/fentanyl) Central Valley: Redding down to Bakersfield completely overrun by homeless meth-heads Northern interior: Fire-prone forests without much population Sierras: Fire-prone forests, Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes are both beautiful and probably the best/safest places in CA to live if you have money with the least amount of homeless addicts, but expensive Southern interior: Extremely hot desert with its fair share of homeless meth-heads for being a low population area Homeless addicts are a major problem in most places in the state. It is not wise to leave anything in your car. This is not true in all of OR. Their problems are mostly concentrated in cities along I-5 (the worst being Portland). The coastal towns tend to be much cleaner. East of the Cascades, Bend has some homeless people, but nothing out of the norm. WA is also mixed. Vancouver, WA is significantly better than Portland. While Olympia seemed cleaned, Seattle is awful and even worse is Spokane. 30 minutes from Spokane is Couer d'Alene, ID where I didn't see a single homeless-looking person. In fact, it might be the nicest small American city I've visited (I also like Annapolis, MD). ID doesn't put up with the same nonsense that WA, OR, and CA do so a lot of people from those states are moving there.
The politics are responsible for the inability to recover from a natural disaster in a reasonable period of time. The politics in Texas are also directly responsible for Houston not having the necessary infrastructure. The Republicans in the state deliberately refused to fund the building of the necessary levees and flood control infrastructure in the Houston area after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. "Why?" do you ask. Well because the Republican legislature was not about to help a "Democratic city". Likewise the electric company, Centerpoint, is a state regulated utility. The state of Texas under Greg Abbott does not require the power utility companies to align with the standards in the rest of U.S. in regards to maintenance, staffing, recovery, etc. Texas does not even have compacts with other states to have out-of-state utility workers to come in and help. There is an entire thread that cites the misery caused by the Abbott administration's policies in Texas -- most of it focused on electric utility policy - https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/abbott-for-the-win-bringing-death-and-misery-to-texas.360807/ Hurricane Harvey (2017) was a major storm that dumped 30 inches of rain on Houston. The storm clearly demonstrated what needed to be fixed in the region of Harris County. Now a mere Category 1 storm, Beryl, with much less rain can cause a disaster in the city.
You would be mistaken. I have solo-travelled this country pretty extensively for my entertainment. I have been to every state and every major city in it. I have also been to most of them within the past few years. The largest metro area in this country I have not visited is Grand Rapids. The largest city I have not been to is #73 Plano, TX. I have also been to every Canadian province and major city. Now, I don’t stay very long in every city, but I always like to checkout the downtown area whenever I go to a new city to get a vibe of what it is like. In CA I have been to: Crescent City, Eureka, San Francisco, Oakland, Fremont, San Jose, Santa Clara, Gilroy, Monterrey, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Malibu, LA, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Carlsbad, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, Redding, Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield, Palm Springs, Caliexico, East Jesus, South Lake Tahoe, Bishop, and Mammoth Lakes just to name a few… I haven’t been to Death Valley yet though, maybe it’s nice there, especially this time of the year?
Then quit making shit up. You must stay in the crappiest parts of town. There is zero reason to travel for entertainment purposes and decide to go San Bernardino, Riverneck, Santa Anus, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield. Caliexico? , you were definitely whoreing.
What do you do to have that much free time? You're what --- about 35? I thought you worked as a trader or something.