If "progressive" life is so great, why are people leaving?

It's the question, my "progressive" friends always change the subject on.

If the life of "progress" is so wonderful, why do people flee it like the Exodus?

Don't believe me? Look at every city in this country.

Still don't believe me? Look at the Mecca of "progressive" living in this country, California.....

They said, "Go west," but many Californians are going north and east.

For the fourth year in a row, more residents left the Golden State than moved here from other states, according to a report released Wednesday by the California Department of Finance.

The outflow -- last seen during the economic and social struggles of the 1990s -- started when it became too expensive for most people to buy homes in the state, and has kept going throughout the bust with the loss of so many jobs.

The trend underscores the state's sour economy as layoffs continue, the fiscal strain on government grows and home values continue to decline.

Though more births and rising international immigration helped boost California's population a modest 1.16% last year, the state continued its steady stream of domestic out-migration -- the movement to other states of people who live here.

During the last fiscal year, 135,173 more people moved out of California than moved in from other states. Though just a drop in the bucket for a state of 38 million people, the trend remains significant because such declines usually occur when working Californians decide better opportunities lie elsewhere.

They called it Paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
While the town got high


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