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Who cares? The projected budget shortfalls care. The fact that major companies are exiting, taking high paying jobs with them. The death spiral of cities that people are going through makes people care. And the places receiving tens of thousands of former Californians care.
California is also losing people to places that are also expensive, like Washington. And other states that are in the top 10 most expensive in the country are not nearly losing as many people at the rate that California and New York do.
Also cost of living is simply not a good argument because California and New York have always been way more expensive than the rest of the country. That hasn't changed for many decades now. In fact the rest of the country is getting more expensive at a faster rate than California and New York which should make them more attractive.
No one cares. Only haters on Sherdog
What has changed is people are no longer tethered to physical locations, they can work in tech/entertainment from ANYWHERE for companies that have now become multinational.
The average house price in the bay is 1.3 million , Washington which has close to same average income is 500k. Places in middle America as low as 100k.
The city of Los Angeles has more people in it that 80% of US states.
CA is the not just the biggest economy in the US its one of the biggest on the planet as a global epicenter.
Again, there is a reason NO ONE hates about the States between CA and NY, because they're irrelevant.