[dragonwriter]

> No. Californians don't want the jobs. Americans live in more than just CA

Yes, but if they wanted the jobs, they'd come to CA for them.

> I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley.

Most people in California—who are, after all, themsleves outside of Silicon Valley, which is a small piece of the state—are well aware of that.

[ng12]

What's the equivalent of a $16 Napa salary in Nebraska? I really don't think it's worth moving for.

[DoodleBuggy]

$16 in Napa is probably $2 in Nebraska. The cost of living there is so much lower than California you can barely compare the two. Homes are 1/10th the price or less.

You can find a nice house in Omaha for $175k that would cost about $2.5 million in Palo Alto for example.

When (if?) Bay Area workers ever figure this out they should telecommute from the midwest.

[datatan]

> Yes, but if they wanted the jobs, they'd come to CA for them.

CA is facing a mass exodus right now. Why on Earth would anyone willingly move there with costs being what they are?

I left 10 years ago and will never go back. I can earn just as much with a cost of living being half of that in any number of states.

> Most people in California—who are, after all, themsleves outside of Silicon Valley, which is a small piece of the state—are well aware of that.

I grew up there and no they aren't aware of it. SV isn't a small part of the state. Its the entire middle of it since hardly anyone who works there can live there. They have to commute for hours from all around.

The other half is in LA county with the same delusions. The populace out side of those areas is tiny in comparison.

[dragonwriter]

> CA is facing a mass exodus right now.

No, it's not. It's facing a slowing rate of inward migration, but it still has net inward migration, not an "exodus" at all, much less a mass one (and a lot of the slowing is part of the national net out-migration of undocumented immigrants—the only a mass exodus involved—offsetting in-migration of others.)

[DrScump]

"Figure 1 [0] shows California’s Department of Finance’s (DOF) estimate of domestic migration, migration between California and other states. According to the DOF, California’s domestic migration has been negative in 18 of the past 20 years."

[0] http://www.newgeography.com/content/003584-california-a-worl...

Also, see http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article3267975...