These are war zone numbers. But these days, California is a war zone.
In California is Leaving, I noted that, “California’s birth rate has declined twice as fast as the rest of the country” and that it had lost a House seat in the census for the first time in history despite blowing $187 million on outreach and inventing conspiracy theories about President Trump trying to suppress minority counts.
The lies failed.
California is killing itself. And at the epicenter of the homelessness and crime in Los Angeles County, people are leaving.
Everywhere I go, I see “For Lease” signs. There’s hardly an apartment building that doesn’t have multiple vacancies.
And this latest survey is catastrophic.
In a new survey of L.A. residents, 10% of respondents said they’re planning to move out of L.A. County in the next year. The results mark a 40% increase from 2019.
Researchers with the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research, spoke with 1,800 L.A. County residents over a two-month period to gauge their feelings about life in L.A. The survey quantified satisfaction with neighborhoods, housing, exposure to crime and more.
Angelenos, based on those factors, reported being less satisfied with their lives than other Californians, and other Americans. Average satisfaction among Angelenos was 4.3 on a scale of one to seven, while the average for both Californians and other Americans was 4.7.
7% planned to leave in 2019. These numbers are really gathering steam as the exodus from California continues.
As I wrote earlier, “The middle class provides political and economic stability and it’s vanishing from the state at rapid rates. What’s replacing it is an itinerant hipster class drawn to Big Tech and the entertainment industry, driven by radical politics, but with no commitment to the state. This same hipster class wrecked New York City, before abandoning it in droves, and is busy wrecking its hubs in Portland and Seattle. Not to mention any other cities where it got a foothold.”
California gave up a stable middle class. Like a lot of cities, LA focused on attracting hip young residents. But they can’t afford to live in LA and increasingly don’t want to.
Leave a Reply