Austin MSA vs SFBA and TX vs CA

Some people on this forum also badmouth California all day long. They ain’t moving anywhere.

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It’s not hand waving, but I’m not patient enough to repeatedly explain the math. By your definition, 90% of Americans are poor then. Meanwhile, a median US income is in the top 1% of the world.

Conclusions summarized in the pdf:

Height of indoctrination. Climate change is a big issue for Californians.

Interesting you didn’t reject this poll citing Bradley effect!

Can you quote the main lines? This is behind paywall.

You can bypass paywall by opening link in incognito mode in Chrome, inPrivate mode in Edge or Show Reader View on Apple.

Not for life. Just to get them over bad spots.

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worked. Thanks

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“In California, there is this idea of ‘Oh, we care about the poor,’” Duggan said. “But on this metric we are literally the worst.”

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“Right now market forces are telling California, ‘Get your s-- together,’ ” said report co-author Mark Duggan, director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. “This exodus thing — I think it’s a risk.”

Nothing would be done. Many think like @manch.

Sell your Cupertino shacks before it’s too late. Quick!

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California is failing in converting its endowment into productivity. Just like many commodity rich countries did not succeed because they did not develop human capital. California is slipping on that count even though last 5 decades were driven by knowledge based industry in California. If it continues this way, the only thing to remain will be nice beachfront properties for rich people to come and buy from all over the world.

Heard about the recent fires down south? The degree of mismanagement is such that even those beachfront properties might not be too appealing down the road.
BTW - we also had 60-70mph gusts here in AZ. Power never went out; no fires.

Making stuff up?

CA avg productivity gain is among the fastest in the nation. Much better than Texas.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prin4.pdf

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Past results?

Year 2020. CA at No.4, growing at 6.1% vs TX crawling along at 1.8%.

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How are the measuring productivity when Nevada is gaining even more?
If it’s just dollars of profit generatd per worker it doesn’t mean much.

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