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Or perhaps they left California for Texas because they didn’t approve of the policies that have made CA a worse place to live, but their vote is in the minority in CA and so they can’t realistically do anything about how broken and dysfunctional the government and policies there are?

Speaking as a lifelong Californian who just moved to Austin, and has had to explain this to the few people who espouse the "don't turn Texas into California" trope.

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That trope is really annoying. California has become more liberal because conservatives have left, so putting all of them into the same basket is dumb. Though I guess conservative Californians aren’t moving to ultra liberal cities like Austin for ideological reasons.

In my network of professional friends and acquaintances, I see more moderate liberals leaving the Bay Area for Austin than I do conservatives.

The conservative folks seem to look more towards Montana and Idaho.

Relatively small n, but still...

Not sure. There aren’t that many conservative software developers, and those that are are more likely to wind up in Provo or Boise. On the other hand, there are lots of conservative Californians outside of the Bay Area and outside of tech who have left the state, they are more likely to have wound up in Texas.

Let’s hope the Bay Area can lose a million or two people to bring some sanity back to traffic and housing prices.

Unfortunately, as proven by every area that has the "privilege" of receiving new Californian transplants, you are in the extreme minority.

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