California has the best weather but people are fleeing because its too expensive, taxes are sky-high, prices are sky-high, and there's homeless blight everywhere. In California, governments will spend spend spend on homeless, who pay zero taxes, while the people paying those taxes get zip.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-08/why-californians-are-fleeing-this-once-golden-state
SACRAMENTO — It seems only yesterday that California’s population was nearly 40 million. Then more people left the state. Now we’re not even at 39 million.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in March that California’s population as of last July had dropped to an estimated 38,965,000. That’s down by 75,400 in a year — and 573,000 below California’s peak of 39.5 million in 2020.
