Behind the Bloomberg paywall is an article about NIMBYism in the south as people migrate from heavily populated states, back to states with no income tax, but also lack the infrastructure to cope with the influx.

In other words, they are experiencing the growing pains to which California has been subjected since WW2: soul-sapping traffic, pollution, sprawling development, and the cost of living increases that invariably accompany increasing demand for goods, services and infrastructure.

The irony: California's growth came from folks who took Horace Greeley's advice to "HEAD WEST, YOUNG MAN!"

California's population has dropped 1.4% , or so they say. You can tell from the traffic. It still sucks. The out of state plates are everywhere as well-educated, higher income folks continue to flock to the 'once-golden state.

"In Gallatin, Tennessee, house prices have jumped by two-thirds since the pandemic, and one local commissioner incensed at nearby homebuilding said she “lives in hell.” So many Californians have moved to the booming state that locals fear their lefty politics migrated with them, and lawn signs target the “greedy developers” they say are swallowing up farmland."

States people are moving to in 2024

Florida 16,259
Texas 10,602
North Carolina 7,970
South Carolina 5,585
Tennessee 5,291
Georgia 5,059

bloomberg.com - Housing price boom blue state migration spark backlash in US south