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After living in the Bay Area for nearly seven years, Hari
Raghavan and his wife decided to leave for the East Coast late
last year.
They were both working remotely and wanted to leave California
because of the high cost of living and urban crime. So they made
a list of potential relocation cities before choosing Miami for
its sunny weather and what they perceived was a better sense of
safety.
Raghavan said that their Oakland house had been broken into four
times and that prior to the pandemic, his wife called him every
day during her seven-minute walk home from the BART station
because she felt safer with someone on the phone. After moving
to Miami, Raghavan said they accidentally left their garage door
open one day and were floored when they returned home and found
nothing had been stolen.
“We moved to the Bay Area because we had to be there if you want
to work in tech and start-ups, and now that that’s no longer a
tether, we took a long hard look and said, ‘Wait, why are we
here again?’ ” Raghavan said.
He said there wasn't much draw in California's quality of life,
local or social policies, or cost of living. "That forced us to
question where we actually wanted to live," he said.
An acceleration of people leaving coastal California began
during the first year of the pandemic. But new data show it
continued even after lockdowns and other COVID restrictions
eased.
California ranks second in the country for outbound moves — a
phenomenon that has snowballed during the pandemic, according to
a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which tracked
data from moving company United Van Lines. Between 2018 and
2019, California had an outbound move rate of 56%. That rate
rose to nearly 60% in 2020-21.
Citing changes in work-life balance, opportunities for remote
work and more people deciding to quit their jobs, the report
found that droves of Californians are leaving for states like
Texas, Virginia, Washington and Florida. California lost more
than 352,000 residents between April 2020 and January 2022,
according to California Department of Finance statistics.
San Francisco and Los Angeles rank first and second in the
country, respectively, for outbound moves as the cost of living
and housing prices continue to balloon and homeowners flee to
less expensive cities, according to a report from Redfin
released this month.
Angelenos, in particular, are flocking to places like Phoenix,
Las Vegas, San Diego, San Antonio and Dallas. The number of Los
Angeles residents leaving the city jumped from around 33,000 in
the second quarter of 2021 to nearly 41,000 in the same span of
2022, according to the report.
California has grappled with extremely high housing prices
compared with other states, according to USC economics professor
Matthew Kahn. Combined with the pandemic and the rise in remote
work, privileged households relocated when they had the
opportunity.
"People want to live here, but an unintended consequence of the
state’s environmentalism is we’re not building enough housing in
desirable downtown areas," Kahn said. "That prices out middle-
class people to the suburbs [and creates] long commutes. We
don’t have road pricing to help the traffic congestion, and
these headaches add up. So when you create the possibility of
work from home, many of these people ... they say 'enough' and
they move to a cheaper metropolitan area.”
Kahn also pointed out that urban crime, a growing unhoused
population, public school quality and overall quality of life
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