SF would be very safe because criminals would observe city boundary and stay within Oakland. Definitely, won’t go to SF :). Ditto for NY. Criminals would stay within a few streets in Manhattan.
Wait, no TX cities in the list?
Hmm…
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Criminals from Oakland committing crimes in SF would count into SF’s crime stats. Any so-called spillover effect is already accounted for.
Why aren’t you worried about your neighboring state Louisiana? It seems to be a crime-ridden state with 3 cities on the Top 10 list.
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Are you hinting that the list is incorrect because crimes in Oakland have spilled over to San Jose, San Diego and Santa Ana? The distance is about the same for those three cities in LA to Austin. In particular, Oakland to SJ is pretty short, SJ can’t be safe if Oakland is not safe. Thank you for the care.
Whatever spillover effect is already accounted for in the data.
So after all these alleged spillovers San Jose is still safer than Austin. Maybe you want to move back to SJ?
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Doubt so. Definitely not from your hint 
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I didn’t live in the city of Austin. Sincerely advise you also don’t go there.
Guess you can add in high crime rate
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Nearly 1 in 5 Texans don’t have health insurance. Dead last in the Union.
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Are they counting illegals in this? Texas doesn’t give them free healthcare the way CA does.
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Is Florida giving health insurance to illegal immigrants? You don’t even need to compare with blue states to see how awful Texas is. Texas’s uninsured number is 6 points higher than even Florida.
The key driver is clearly no expansion of Medicaid. Non expansion states do much worse collectively compared to expansion states. Medicaid expansion mostly cover the people who fall through in the middle. People who are not destitute enough to qualify but still too poor to afford health insurance.
I’ll take not paying 10% state income tax over giving illegals healthcare. Weren’t you bragging about California’s budget surplus a few months ago? That didn’t last long which was predictable. The only way they’re going to maintain funding for healthcare is increasing taxes.
Imagine simping a state where 1 in 5 can’t afford basic healthcare.
Yeah, California being #1 in homeless population is far superior. People in California can’t afford things on their own either. They are dependent on government handouts, and you apparently enjoy paying for them.
Meanwhile, in New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing a $227 billion budget for fiscal year 2024. Compare that number to Florida’s proposed budget, which comes in at $115 billion.
Why the comparison to New York? Because Florida has a larger population (21.78 million) than the Empire State (19.84 million), yet it spends half as much money to run the state.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3854794-the-new-red-wave-is-already-here/
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In most of these states, the recipe for the exodus has three primary ingredients:
(1) Taxes . Californians’ earnings are taxed at 13.3 percent. Residents of New Jersey and New York see their earnings taxed at 10.75 percent and 8.82 percent, respectively. But if you live in Florida or Texas or Tennessee, your income is taxed at 0.0 percent.
(2) Crime : Things are so bad in progressive San Francisco that it fired its district attorney last year. New York saw a record 4,500-plus police officersresign as violent crime rose 22 percent from the year before. And Mayor Lori Lightfoot is in serious jeopardy of losing her reelection bid in Chicago, with 71 percent of voters saying that the city is headed in the wrong direction, according to one poll. Crime is the major reason why.
(3) Traffic. According to a study by U.S. News and World Report, the most congested cities in the country with the worst commutes are as follows: Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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So many people left CA for TX and yet our economy is much stronger than TX. Our lead actually accelerated in the last couple years.
Interesting.
The total tax is the most important. Whether it’s divided between property tax, sales tax or income Do Texans actually.totally pay less taxes than Californians. as an example Texas is 3.5% property tax for many people. If you put down 3.5% on the property and get a loan your property tax is actually 100% of your down payment and goes up every year.
Some people don’t read and can’t do comparison.
And this time, it’s actually materialized… The exodus is real, California lost nearly 350,000 residents in 2022, while New York lost about 300,000… But other states, such as Florida and Texas, saw large gains in population, with Florida adding an eye-popping 444,484 residents and Texas adding 470,708…
Property values are much lower there. When I looked at it, property taxes were about the same for an equivalent size home.
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Don’t know where you get 3.5%. Primary in Austin… 4/3.5/1 3500sqft on 13k sqft lot, built 2019.
Property tax/ appraised market value = $14,199.75/$977,563 = 1.45%
Compare with my ex-Primary in CU… 3/2/1 1600sqft on 8k sqft lot, built 1973.
Property tax/ assessed value = $21,300/ $1.718M = 1.24%
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