Is there any data on rent changes in Texas? A Bay Area school district employee told me that she has noticed a big increase in requests to transfer student records to Texas districts. But I don't know how widespread that is.
Housing prices, local politics, just about everything is gonna suck real bad for the people in the destination locales because a bunch of people with more money than them are showing up and trying to tell them what to do.
Weak topsoil because of too few roots leads to a dust bowl like scenario.
Because for a long time it was cheap by California standards. Same story with Denver, Boulder, now Boise, etc. etc.
I know it's a sentiment I've expressed to friends and family: I bought a house last year and I've repeatedly thought "boy I'm sure glad I'm trapped in a single-family home with a nice backyard for a year, rather than in my old apartment for a year". I would have been climbing the walls there.
Of course there are more factors in single-family home prices as well: interest rates are directly tied to how much money people can afford to borrow, so the rate reductions this summer drive a surge in housing prices, and generally the fed injected a ton of money into the financial system that is sloshing around looking for safe places to park, and housing is a very safe place to do that. There are a lot of properties being bought up by investment firms to rent out.
I'm from Texas, moved to CA for a number of years, and have since returned to TX. Things like no state income tax and lower sales tax are major attractions, add to that the dirt cheap prices of property in comparison to CA. There are other things that are cheaper that just make day-to-day life easier. Fuel prices are much cheaper in TX. Auto registration fees are cheaper. In TX, my Corolla was <$75 per year while in CA it was >$400. When I registered my car in CA, I was required to pay taxes on something purchased in another state. (Why CA limits this tax/ransom to cars is a real question. Why not any large ticket purchases like computers,washer/dryer,fridges,etc.)
TL;DR - It's pretty widespread. TX population is rapidly increasing
Technically they do. You’re supposed to declare purchases on your taxes and pay the “use tax” on them. It’s just that you can’t get away with not paying the tax on a car so it’s easier to enforce.
Not having any protections or laws supporting laborers help make things cheaper too. No parental/sick leave, no per day overtime maximums, no mandatory break times, no non compete ban, lower minimum wages, etc.
Not that it’s the only reason, but I notice it to be a trend in “low cost” states. The exception seems to be WA, which has decent labor protections, but not quite as good as CA.
Theoretically, I agree it's possible to have too much worker protection, but it's a laughable notion in the US where pretty much all but a handful of states have no protections and "too much worker protection" is not even a remote concern.
I have a family member complaining that they cannot eat and have to stand for 8+ hours straight, a pharmacist because who is enslaved by their student loan debt, and are on the wrong side of supply and demand and there is no law that says employers need to give their employees the ability to pause and eat. So they snack on junk food in their pockets while they work.