Despite anxiety over Texas’ growth and billboards in California trying to persuade residents to stay put, many still chose to switch states, often picking Austin and the larger Central Texas region as their next home.
People selecting Texas over the Golden State cited affordability as a key factor. But for some, it’s come with different costs: dense traffic, a lack of dependable public transportation and scorching heat that transplants say is lowering their quality of life. An August report from Insider found that tech workers in particular are getting fed up with Texas, frustrated that career opportunities just aren’t as plentiful as they are in Silicon Valley.
As a result, people are moving out of the Lone Star State, or at the very least are considering it. Using U.S. Postal Service data, Insider found that from January to May this year, Austin saw the fifth-largest net outward migration among major U.S. cities, trailing New York, Los Angeles, and Houston, which actually ranked No. 1 among cities that saw the most people leave during that stretch.
You do realize they want to stop people at the border now to prevent them from traveling for abortions right? We’re probably like 6 months away from sitting up some Road checkpoint on harassing people. Plus you’ve also got transgender healthcare that is becoming increasingly illegal even for adults, never trust this protect the kids bullshit it’s never true. So that means you’d have to fly out to California not just for a possibly once in a lifetime abortion but for a monthly prescription refill, and on and on and on. Also the power grid isn’t even reliable in Texas
Framework laws that would better enable that kind of “road checkpoint” are already being pushed through by activists and passed in some rural Texas counties.