(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) Things are so bad in leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden’s America that a record number of Californians are moving to Mexico.
Citing rising inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, and an absurdly over-priced housing market, more than 350,000 Californians left the state for good in 2021, exacerbating what has been called “the great California exodus,” according to CNBC.
Many, according to CNBC, are heading to Mexico in search of a “relaxed, more affordable lifestyle.”
“We were able to cut our budget in half, which allowed us to really focus on our careers . . . without having to hustle, and hustle, and hustle,” one couple told CNBC.
Life in California is so expensive that some are even commuting back and forth to the state from Mexico.
“It’s like thousands, and thousands, and thousands . . . it’s a lot of people,” another interviewee said.
The emigration has spawned complaints about a spike in real estate prices and gentrification from local Mexicans.
“Certain neighborhoods are now becoming too expensive for Mexican citizens to live in because most of the time people that are actually buying the property developments are being able to do so because they either make money in US dollars, or because they are working remotely,” said Ariel Ruiz Soto of the Migration Policy institute.
A May 2022 article in the New York Times sought to blame the pandemic, falling birthrates, and immigration restrictions for the continued decline of California’s population.
But even the Times was forced to admit that there were population gains “in inland areas” like the Central Valley and the so-called “Inland Empire,” gains which suggest that more and more Californians are unwilling to suffer under the leftist regimes in the states biggest cities.
As Hillsdale College lecturer Michael Anton has suggested, California’s message to its middle class residents is that they’re losers who don’t deserve to live in the state.
“California’s implicit message is similar to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s description of his city as a ‘luxury product’: sure, it’s expensive, but it’s expensive because it’s awesome, and if you can’t afford it, that’s because you’re a loser,” Anton wrote.
