{"id":4065,"date":"2023-07-06T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T13:05:35","slug":"californians-move-to-texas-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Californians Move to Texas in Droves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/06\/californians-move-to-texas-in-droves\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=californians-move-to-texas-in-droves\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/06\/californians-move-to-texas-in-droves\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=californians-move-to-texas-in-droves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12269501\/Number-fleeing-California-Texas-nearly-doubled-111-000-year-decade.html\">They are like locusts<\/a>. Let\u2019s hope they leave their politics behind.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">About 300\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians\u00a0<\/a><\/span>moved to\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/texas\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas\u00a0<\/a><\/span>each day in 2021 \u2013 a staggering 111,000 people, newly released data shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That is double the 63,000 that made the same move in 2012,\u00a0according to a new\u00a0<a class href=\"https:\/\/www.storagecafe.com\/blog\/california-to-texas-moving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">report from Storage Caf\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0which examined California-Texas migrations patterns over nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Of those that moved in 2021, nearly half were millennials, born between 1981 and 1996, and headed to counties around major cities such as Austin, Houston and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The study found Californians were lured from their state by a number of factors, including cheaper housing, lower taxes and booming work opportunities thanks to Texas\u2019 tech and energy industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fueling that shift was the COVID pandemic which increased the number of people that could work from home, releasing them from traditional commitments that would tie them down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that Wisconsin looks more and more like California every day \u2013 especially after this last state budget.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/06\/californians-move-to-texas-in-droves\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=californians-move-to-texas-in-droves They are like locusts. Let\u2019s hope they leave their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}