Escape from California? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 16, 2002 @03:52PM from the defecting-from-the-west-coast dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Is there any escape from California? I'm a very experienced software engineer (7+ years) with a MSEE and lots of great work experience. Even in this market, jobs in CA are easy to grab if I want them. Trouble is, I don't want to live here anymore. Six figures in Northern CA gets mostly pissed away on a mortgage for a house that isn't worth half that anywhere else, and I'm pretty much just waiting for the earthquake to hit and wipe it out. I'd love to move to the midwest, but decent software jobs seem to not exist. I'm more than willing to take a huge paycut to get a job there, but where to even start looking?"

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Read this... by burnsy · 2002-12-16 17:00 · Score: 5, Informative

According to this study, Movin' Out: Domestic Migration to and from California in the 1990s, California has had a net outflow every year in the 1990s.
The top states for Californians to move to were:

Washington - 534,000
Texas - 523,000
Arizona - 449,000
Oregon - 374,000
Neveda - 320,000