But is life really better in Texas than in California? If data disinfects, here’s a bucket of bleach: Compared with families in California, those in Texas earn 13% less and pay 3.8 percentage points more in taxes. Texans are 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians. Texans are also 34% more likely to be raped and 25% more likely to kill themselves than Californians.
Silicon Valley types are not going to move to a state where abortion is illegal and books are banned.
Texas has a choice does it want to remain the cutting edge top State that it is, attracting and keeping the best and brightest or does it want to go back to pre-reconstruction.
California is very nice.
The people refer to it as a hellhole have probably never been there. My family is here in Texas and I’m too old to move but I’d live there in a heartbeat.
Nice to cherry pick stats to make a case.
Texas, like California, is large enough to either hide from those you loathe or find those you love. The office may be in Plano, but you can live in Deep Elum. Or office in Sugar Land and live in The Heights.
If Kalispell, Montana, had a large pool of educated workers, local support for businesses, and access to funding, it would be a high-tech hub. Access to money and workers rules. For now, Austin has the advantage of lower residential and office rents, but that advantage could quickly close.
Just like anywhere else, there are places I could live in CA if I could afford it. You couldn’t pay me enough to live in LA or SF. SF was disgusting when I was there 4 years ago. LA has too much traffic, even for this native Houstonian. There are places in TX I wouldn’t live in either. For example, Dallas…because it’s Dallas. LOL
I’m in the suburbs, but I love my home town and home state.
Would like to see the breakdown of taxes. Not disputing, but curious. Guessing they don’t have it though.
California…Nobody goes there anymore…it’s too crowded.
California is #9 in tax burden. Texas is #32.
I hope all those liberal radicals stay in California (or in Austin). They deserve each other.
So many people who pile on the hate for California have never been, but parrot what their fav media tells them to.
I have enjoydd cali as a tourist, but it is out of my price range to live there compared to Houston.
I LOVE Houston but for those who are from out of state they describe Houston as an aquired taste…I"m Ok with that.
That’s an interesting article and goes against the narrative since the last census that
California is in decline and Texas has taken over.
In 2021, California created 261,000 more jobs than Texas. California attracted $145 billion more venture capital than Texas. Californians attracted $3,911 per person; Texans, only $364. Far from dying last year, California’s tech industry raised more money than any year on record.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article258940938.html#storylink=cpy
Some will claim the stats are cherry picked; but, they will need to provide alternate stats or
show how the process or methodology in the article is flawed. I will be looking forward to
the counter data and/or analysis.
How do you define a liberal radical? That sounds like a catch-all term. Many moving from California probably come for the cheaper real estate and business start-up costs, not to impose some imagined leftist agenda. smh
He said, fully aware of the board policy on politics.
This point is very true and in favor of Texas.
From the CDC, here are life expectancy estimates at birth by state in 2019, starting with the highest:
- Hawaii — 80.9 years
2. California — 80.9 - New York — 80.7
- Minnesota — 80.4
- Massachusetts — 80.4
- Connecticut — 80.3
- New Jersey — 80.1
- Washington — 80
- Colorado — 80
- Vermont — 79.8
- Utah — 79.7
- Oregon — 79.6
- Idaho — 79.5
- Rhode Island — 79.5
- New Hampshire — 79.4
- Wisconsin — 79.3
- Nebraska — 79.2
- Virginia — 79.1
- Florida — 79
- Iowa — 79
- Illinois — 79
- Arizona — 78.8
- North Dakota — 78.8
24. Texas — 78.6 - Maryland — 78.5
- Montana — 78.4
- South Dakota — 78.4
- Pennsylvania — 78.3
- Maine — 78.3
- Kansas — 78.2
- Delaware — 78.1
- District of Columbia — 78
- Nevada — 78
- Michigan — 78
- Alaska — 77.7
- Wyoming — 77.7
- North Carolina — 77.6
- Georgia — 77.4
- Indiana — 77
- Missouri — 76.9
- New Mexico — 76.9
- Ohio —76.9
- South Carolina — 76.8
- Louisiana — 75.7
- Oklahoma — 75.7
- Arkansas — 75.7
- Tennessee — 75.6
- Kentucky — 75.5
- Alabama — 75.2
- West Virginia — 74.5
- Mississippi — 74.4
Why the vitriol?
So that vindicates the life expectancy claim in the article.
I’m guessing the retort will be something like “well they are Democrat run state and they are counting dead voters to show an increased life expectancy” or “ all the state’s data is fake and rigged”.
“Google controls what we see, cant trust facts”…i shake my head in disbelief.