Is Texas Becoming The New California?

Tesla’s gigafactory and Apple’s second-largest campus aren’t the only big businesses coming to Texas. From Oracle to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Elon Musk to Joe Rogan, Texas has lured an increasing number of big businesses and billionaires away from California since the pandemic began. While California’s population and job growth both slowed to a trickle, Texas added more residents than any other state in 2020. CNBC talks to those moving and longtime Texans about the reasons behind the trend and what it could mean for the future of the Lone Star State.
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Is Texas Becoming The New California?

[@fuckjoebiden]

fun fact: when millions of people all flock to the same small area it stops being affordable

[@blablabla6975]

Capitalism for you, demand and supply

[@supremecaffeine2633]

@@blablabla6975 There isn't an economic system in existence that could handle a situation like that without decades worth of forewarning. Though capitalism would actually be the best system for it.

[@the500mphtortoise]

property regs are more lax in texas though

[@OuterHeaven210]

Can’t be helped. It’s a double edged sword but let’s be real. Can you afford a nice house in Austin at this moment anyways? Even a couple years ago?

[@chrisburch1406]

Texas is pretty big man... if Texas took care of the roads like we do in FL I'd say it's the best place to be.

[@HoorayForTyler]

“The cost of living here is normal. It’s not artificially inflated.” This statement won’t age well.

[@Comeback180]

It's true Texas is cheaper to live in but like anything that's cheap there will be a higher price to pay in other areas. Lower wages, less worker protections and other expensivd costs.

[@rhenry212]

Hard to justify spending a lot of money for property in a state where the power grid is unreliable

[@taylorstep1413]

I'll come back to this comment in two years.

[@Danielle_1234]

@@Comeback180 Higher property taxes mostly. It sucks to buy a house in Texas, unless you get in early (buy low, sell high).

[@AdmiralFroggy]

@@rhenry212 oh is it? California begs to differ.

[@MSRLR]

In my town in Oregon as a kid, there were fast fields of farm land everywhere. Those fields are now condos. Rent went up 35% And thousands of people from California moved here.

[@dustingutterrez7101]

We have that in the valley but still hella smog and expensive

[@2stroke438]

Same in boise idaho.

[@wreckim]

My neighbor moved to Texas. His home sold in 24hrs here in Cali, there were 10 buyers vying for the property on the first day of the listing. Everybody is happy. However, coming back to Cali is very, very difficult. If prices jump another 30% over the next 5 years or so, the home will be well over $1M. He was a gardener, and sold flowers on the side. It's crazy.

[@daigomori7374]

Prices are currently dropping

[@mamamailbox9642]

same in texas

[@sanbruno6010]

PEACE LOVE ONE ANOTHER HONESTY PROSPERITY RESPECT FREE THINKING GOOD HEALTH OPTIMISM

[@kanamekiyru]

My aunt couldn't afford her cali condo. Moved to Texas and bought a 3 bedroom house outright and still had money left over

[@jaylu7021]

What's crazy is owning a million dollar home with the salary of a gardener.

[@dean._.0.0]

15 years from now: “Is Nebraska becoming the new Texas?”

[@yetirider1233]

No, Kansas 😳

[@woodlandhamilton4348]

No, Georgia

[@Joshuatree7746]

Any southern state can become TEXAS. You already have the back water mentality.

[@gw7388]

@@erseshe a!

[@TWForeeever]

God forbid 😭😂

[@DeCurtaRican]

Ironically, the low prices everyone loves won’t exist for too long if everyone goes there.

[@danielpeters2282]

Yes and no. There so much land

[@ilelli3640]

@@danielpeters2282 No one wants to live in the desert tho, especially the rich most of them will be near the big cities

[@danielpeters2282]

@@ilelli3640 and yet Las Vegas

[@ilelli3640]

@@danielpeters2282 Yes after it became a big city ;)

[@dinsel9691]

Low prices are for shitholes..

[@natecody3305]

How did you argue gentrification being a good thing? I'm a residential hvac technician in the DFW and I've encountered people of all walks in my work and I'm a transplant myself. Many would argue that this influx of people from California is making it far more difficult for those that already live here and damn near impossible to get into buying a home if you weren't already a homeowner.

[@Affluent-Ghetto-Blackman]

Lol it’s capitalism get over it

[@feyelsbells7839]

i agree with both of you, but i lean toward's OP's assertion that this is bad. it IS just capitalism, working as intended- enriching the few and screwing everyone else over. gentrification and capitalism go hand-in-hand in the worst possible way, and i can only see this being negative for native texans, who will probably end up being told to move if they can't afford texas anymore. it's a vicious cycle and destroys any sense of community. in my opinion, we need to radically change zoning laws, minimum build requirements, minimum parking requirements, and most of all, the abolishment of corporate landlords, property speculation, and price hiking. if not abolishment, than regulation and increased taxation, bare minimum. preferably on a federal level.

[@brentduanefoster]

This is nothing more than a “ California Trash Talking” report.

[@andrewschwenke720]

@@feyelsbells7839 Stopping people from charging as high when they are selling/renting out property just reduces the incentive to build in the first place. Then you have a shortage. Then you have higher prices not lower. The real problem is inflation, our government's spending is way past out of control and that creates inflation-translated higher prices everywhere on everything. Keep the regulation to a minimum, stop inflation, and let people profit from building houses and the market would go down. Too many brainwashed people for that to ever happen tho.

[@Starcraftghost]

On certain aspects, yes. However, the diversity of the landscape and great weather in California is what Texas cannot replicate.

[@lifjyruss]

Have you been to Texas? The only thing we don't have in terms of landscape is a huge fault line. Ok maybe a couple of other things, I grant you, but there are mountains, deserts, forests, rolling hills, a coastline, mesas, rivers, lakes and so much more. My intension is not to harp on you, of course, but there are a lot of similarities between the two than you give credit for. Also, Texas is huge enough that the weather varies greatly from the cool weather in the panhandle, dry and hot in the western/southwestern portion of the state, humid as hell in the central Hill country and a mixture of all in the eastern part of the state. While the weather in California is exacerbating conditions for huge wildfires, so is Texas. Climate change is something that should be taken seriously regardless of political affiliation, because these two great states deserve to be preserved in all their glory, not be burned to the ground.

[@David-nw6wj]

@@lifjyruss I’ve lived in Texas my whole life we don’t have the California weather. 😂😂🤣😂😂

[@veeree1746]

@@lifjyruss Exactly what I was thinking...Texas is so huge that it's landscape varies greatly!

[@rexx9496]

@@lifjyruss I drove across all of Texas from El Paso to Texarkana. I didn't see anything pretty or scenic in any way. I'm sure there's good things about Texas but nobody is going there for the weather or natural beauty.

[@lifjyruss]

@@rexx9496 how did you drive?! Blind people don't drive! Unless they have a self driving car...... Do you have a self driving car?

[@johnmartin4472]

"Farmland waiting to be developed" Oh lord please don't...we need them and I would rather look at a field of cows than a business park.

[@vadimbukhantsov5575]

No kidding. The way they see it is it's more important for me to destroy this perfect fertile soil and run my business rather than feed the nation.

[@aaronaragon5087]

Just shows most people from cities have no idea where food actually comes other than supermarkets.

[@broskiblue726]

@@aaronaragon5087 Well Bill gates just became largest farm land owner so 90% of what the public eats will be gmo 😏

[@ldaws-3912]

Government and business doesn't care about the farmland. They will have lab farms for artificial food that they will force onto the grocery shelves. Or at this rate, the online grocery. Times are changing, hard to stop the influence of greedy billionaires. smh

[@ldaws-3912]

@@broskiblue726 absolutely 🤮

[@tommyrex6648]

30 years from now: Is Montana becoming the new Texas?

[@PRINCE4ACE]

@Vegas Ace i think Wyoming based off reviews I’ve heard

[@jims7318]

Montana all the way

[@earlmcmanus194]

@@PRINCE4ACE , Wyoming is the least populous state, no one will be flocking here in mass.

[@nyckidd6004]

@@earlmcmanus194 I mean isn’t Kanye west building a city there or something

[@earlmcmanus194]

@@nyckidd6004 , I love Kanye but even the King of Saudi Arabia would have a tough time building a city in a random rural area.

[@KCFlyer2]

What these economic geniuses are overlooking is "supply and demand' You bet you could by 5 times the house for the money you'd spend in California. The more people who move there, builders and developers are also in business...and they will see this increase in demand and adjust their prices accordingly. And with more people, there will need to be more roads. And more schools. And more parks. And the other thing they are overlooking is that while houses didn't cost as much in Texas, jobs didn't pay as much jobs in California. What's going to happen is that all these people welcoming this California influx will eventually start to resent them when they see the increases in the cost of living.

[@andrewschwenke720]

Trust me. Only CNBC is happy to see this emigration. They want to see Texas turn blue. I wish it was practical for us to secede.

[@rlewisf1]

California's problems don't come from liberalism. They come from a combination of growth and resistance to affordable housing regulation and projects. It's the real estate costs, not regulation costs.

[@drillosophy1012]

Thank you.

[@spencervance8484]

"There are farmers fields around me, waiting to be developed" Those fields are doing what they are supposed to...making food.

[@hbb7528]

4 Famous CEO and one podcaster move to Texas people are acting like 1/4 of the country moved to Texas

[@Sp1n1985]

@@hbb7528 and several media sources and economic reports..

[@FluidMotionEnergy]

No, they grow stuff thats not even for humans. Ita for liveatock, manufacturing and other countries

[@raabaddler5802]

hows the water situation? just saying the central plains are going back being a desert

[@henryroop3671]

@@FluidMotionEnergy stuff we need...to produce other goods

[@jamesthao5763]

This guy didn’t even point out that when you have big techs big salary, influx of new residents. Cost of living will rises fast.

[@cL-bf2ug]

Exactly just look at the San Francisco Bay Area.

[@fvr12345]

Common sense, right?

[@Velo1010]

That’s good, but not everyone gets to make the $100k year salaries. This leads to disproportionate incomes.

[@velociraptorgames7703]

Have you seen Austin? The housing prices have SKYROCKETED there. Plus the traffic is LA level. Texas ain’t what it was 20 years ago

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

Not true. it's what the liberals did to their area. Houston and LA have a similar GDP per capita and population over 1 million, yet Houston has lower taxes and regulations, and Housing costs twice as less. Their are multiple different building permits for commercial builders that not only increase price in time spent on project, approval and regulation, including specifications adds costs for upkeep, and some even speculate the real-estate bubble is artificially kept up through deals between home-owners associations, realtors, and politicians, and given the potential short-term fallout of cheaper real-estate prices, I'm willing to believe. Let them build as big as they want, as fast as they want, free of intervention, their will still be grievance lawsuits for deliberate shoddy construction causing loss of life and damage.

[@Colours_Fading]

Bijoy Goswami had a point in the fact that many of these big influential people bring their businesses to Texas and they bring a transactional mindset meaning once they've used up Texas and it doesn't benefit them anymore it's on to the next state and then the next. This has left a bunch of natives from California without a home and it's going to leave native Texans in the same position.

[@heybroy0747]

Ah yes, the classic industrial machine but with anime eyes 5:38 celebrated at a tech festival 🤣

[@ALSAHAFI13]

10 years from now: "No. Wyoming isn't becoming the new Texas."

[@alexfranco3879]

To hot there

[@johnqpublic7191]

This is why I picked WV, its got a bad wrap, and nobody wants to come here.

[@skellingtonmeteoryballoon]

🤣😂😆😂🤣4 years later...

[@stn7172]

Please stay outta utah we don't need you sissies

[@dennisclark4370]

If people keep moving there, yes it will.

[@dragon75dude]

I hope native Texans can brace themselves for the surge in rent prices, utilities and groceries.

[@dragon75dude]

@Heather Mckenzie From what I gather it is happening as we speak. It's only a matter of time until it becomes truly affordable.

[@VeryLegitPerson]

property taxes are gonna go through the roof. Texas makes most of its money by property tax ( 3rd highest in the US). i see so many people filing for a homestead exemption, but if everyone did that, the state wouldn't make any money. Plus there is good reason to think Houston will become just like Detroit if it doesn't diversify its economy.

[@dustinhisle1543]

@M S That’s because Californians are moving here. They need to stay in their state. They destroyed it. They can fix it.

[@weirdshibainu]

I live in Reno. It's already happened here. Due to an influx of Californians, rental prices are surging. Reno is one of the least affordable rental markets in the nation due to rising rental costs and stagnant wages. I'm fortunate in that I'm not affected by it, but I work with people that despite making 60k a year give up half their take home to rent a decent place. Half of all Reno residents don't earn enough to rent a one bedroom apartment not exceeding 35% of their gross. I'm telling you Texas. .you're going to regret this and once these people move in , they'll view you as the problem

[@williamcharles8628]

I just moved back to Galveston Texas, from California, yes rent has, gone up alittle, believe or not since alot of people moved from California, rent went down alittle in certain places. Its starting to balance out

[@GeoMeridium]

Texas is becoming the new Florida, Florida is becoming the new Texas.

[@davefischer2344]

1:04 exactly lol

[@the2step]

As a Californian, becoming the next ‘California’ is not something you want

[@dantecavezza2323]

the crime rate in texas is probbaly gonna explode if more californians come here. some californians are good tho, like u

[@LegendNinja41]

@@dantecavezza2323 lol wot? did you look at the crimes rates of both states? the are very similar and i think Texas is a bit worse off on a few things.

[@Dmgx32]

@@LegendNinja41 meanwhile, in michigan...

[@PikachooUpYou]

Rejoice Californians...you’ll be getting some of your state back.

[@madladjad9936]

@@LegendNinja41 most of that difference is in cartel activity

[@michaelc1063]

The saddest & most tragic part of all this is that we are giving up our agriculture & farmland to make consumable garbage

[@i.m.9918]

@Michael C -- Yes. Exactly. Just like the native populations gave up their rich and varied land management lifestyles for Anglo agri-business and a cholesterol-centric food culture (in short 'consumable garbage'). Yes.

[@thomashajicek2747]

Free market capitalism.

[@skinnychumpz007]

Thats just humankind. Dont expect any mercy or care for nature. Nobody really cares when money is involved.

[@nickolasbrown3342]

You can grow plants in a factory. Farmlands are not necessary, they're just cheap.

[@mattbowdenuh]

you must not be from tx. if you were, you would know that most of that "farmland" is sitting between bedroom communities or even subdivisions for sale or just waiting for the price to rise. most of that "farmland" just produces hay or feedstock and might have some cattle. so not really what you envision when you hear "farmland."

[@asajayunknown6290]

Unless these companies move to places in west Texas, which they aren't, the low costs they are touting here will disappear. Almost every city I heard mentioned here was Dallas, Houston, Austin, or San Antonio, especially Dallas. Will not be "affordable" for long.

[@MysticSoul19]

Native Texans moving to California is a thing too I’m thinking about it

[@tek5670]

Yeah those are called democrats

[@tungnguyen7395]

As a broke student of UT austin, I’m kind of scared this trend will raise my rent and other living cost next year...

[@BossManWebbMerica]

Don’t worry, it will

[@lilsabin]

@@BossManWebbMerica hahahahahahahhahaha

[@lilsabin]

study faster :P

[@rimckd825]

Oh yeah... wait for it... wait for it...

[@Saku19]

Sorry bro, looks like it's gonna keep climbing.

[@ricardovr4685]

The most annoying sound in Texas: "We just came from California"

[@brandonrox221]

Nah most annoying is Texans claiming they could be independent then a winter storm caused them to need to be bailed out by federal government

[@PixelLife101]

@@brandonrox221 Well that happened because of their independent electric grid?

[@ohozo7292]

@@brandonrox221 what bailout were isolated power wise

[@elgayetas]

The most annoying sound in Colorado: "We just came from Texas or New Mexico"

[@notechb0ss2.05]

@@elgayetas That's interesting when I live in North Central Texas yet somehow manage to see Colorado license plates everywhere I go.

[@TheElmatoc]

California: "we have 17 genres and growing" Texas: "we only have two" California: *Hold my vente chelato Frappuccino*

[@drmartin5062]

Well, I lived in Texas for 3 years. Austin was beautiful in 20015. I left in 2018 and it was getting worse. Now it is a complete sewer. The entire city council and the mayor have become progressive since if you are a democrat you have no choice but to be progressive. They ruined their cities and states so badly they had to move to survive. Now they are systematically destroying one of the freest states in the country, and the freest place on planet Earth. Their equality will destroy us all. It is honestly extremely sad because citizens that do not learn from mistakes are the most dangerous people in a democratic republic.

[@l.gutierrez5902]

that's what they are doing in Taylor TX!! They are moving into the surrounding towns near Austin, Once they start running for public office or marry someone that will run a public office - look for the change! Now the city of Taylor claims to be a progressive town

[@kmpaton]

I drove through Texas in a rental vehicle with California plates (I'm not from CA) and man did I get some dirty looks, lol.

[@abhishekdev258]

That is because all these Commiefornians who see themselves as missionaries and not as refugees.

[@NullaVitae]

@@abhishekdev258 ey shut up, be happy CA residents are increasing your property values. If u don't like it, leave it homie

[@abhishekdev258]

@@NullaVitae spoken with the same smugness that Commiefornians speak. It seems like you too had the extreme pleasure of meeting a CA resident residing in a red state.

[@perseverance3271]

@@abhishekdev258 Ironic, considering your initial statement was smug. It sounds like you don't know what a communist is, which is expected given the inability of most Republicans to work basic things like a search engine.

[@intercat4907]

I was in Lubbock during my school years. I had one elementary school teacher who suspected I was Satanic because my family was from out of town and I was left-handed. 1970's. That's a memory I don't bring up often.

[@jonbebus4092]

"There are just farmers fields waiting to be developed". Used to be that way in California too.

[@USARMYvietnamVET1969]

People in Texas are FU*KED..

[@matthew8153]

@@USARMYvietnamVET1969 People in general are f**ked. As soon as the civil war begins food exports will cease and the whole world will stop.

[@minhdo1728]

I think Texas will become the victim of its own success if they don't learn the lesson from California

[@ohgawd]

@@USARMYvietnamVET1969 BWAHAHA! Like they haven't always been!!! You idiots are getting an influx of tRumpetteers from all over the country so pretty sure you're safe from being "californicated"!😜😝🤪

[@Ayveh]

lmao hard to imagine XD Meanwhile as a Texan who has traveled all over Texas I can't imagine those farmlands disappearing ESPECIALLY with human population increasing.

[@montanaman2439]

People from Texas are flocking to Great Falls, MT. The amount of Texas plates here are crazy.

[@sak_5]

Everytime I hear “exercise my right”, I feel those are the people who always make trouble everywhere they go.

[@sanbruno6010]

PEACE LOVE ONE ANOTHER HONESTY PROSPERITY RESPECT FREE THINKING GOOD HEALTH OPTIMISM

[@LordBaca]

“You can drive 2 hours and still be in Texas” You can drive drive 2 hours and never even leave LA 😂😂

[@grizzlygrizzle]

He said, "twelve hours," but I suppose some days that would be true in LA, too.

[@mybad9766]

You can drive for 2 hours in LA and still see homeless ! 😔

[@smkfce127]

@Chad T you driving at literally 150mph nonstop if you drive 300 miles in 2 hours. You people in these comments just talk and argue out your ass

[@thechugger6075]

@@smkfce127 motorcycle brah

[@truthiscensored]

@@thechugger6075 150 mph for 2 hours straight is a bit much don't you think? Especially on a motorcycle, that is damn near suicide Like the comment before people just talk out their ass

[@Seedcadets]

Get ready for a one bed room apartment to cost $3000 a month flat lol 😂

[@qmawpxvecxydiwixytvieowizhehsi]

Yep, it's sad.. :/ soon there won't be cheap places anywhere.

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

This is not California. It won't happen they tries for so many years and it never happened

[@martingo2680]

@@alfredoalcantar8691 it's the tech companies that would make that happen.. those individuals make average $250,000 a year.. you'll see prices going up immediately. Trust me on that

[@alanlee67]

@@martingo2680 you don't know anything. The price of real estate in california is largely due to dumb liberal green policies. It takes years to get a building permit and that's what drives up housing. California always had high income but there was once a time it was called the golden state. You liberals ruin everything

[@-whackd]

That's not because of population, it's because of regulation.

[@drillosophy1012]

As a native Californian, all I can say to Texans is: Good luck lol

[@Jose0421]

You got that right! Lol! Texas wishes it could be like us.

[@smokingjoe9864]

I remember Texas Instruments calculators.

[@mrlaydback11]

I feel bad for a lot people in Texas. Housing is going to be unafforable for many very soon.

[@maroon9273]

Homeless and foreclosures will be common in inner cities and spread out.

[@nikarshadsulaiman9614]

It’s basically gonna be like Oakland

[@sanbruno3606]

CLEAN, SOBER, SAFE, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS CALIFORNIA

[@john.t645]

@@sanbruno3606 lmao sure

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

@@john.t645 That's the joke. LA has 1 homeless for every 62 people. In my Republican hometown of Marion County, Fl, with 359,000 it's only 1 for every 497 spread out over rural countryside, and I still meet the occasional homeless, I can only imagine how bad it must be when people are crammed together in LA with 8 times more per capita. Everybody knows California is a cesspit, and the people are what made it that way, and nobody's going to convince people that they aren't responsible and are somehow the "victims" of the people they elected.

[@u2ooby]

If you live in Texas buy a house ASAP before the prices become completely unaffordable! The ppl from Cali have A LOT of money and can easily raise the cost of housing once they flood in.

[@sammymontego2217]

Don't buy a house in Texas. Leave. Property taxes are going to go through the roof.

[@nomadnomad3109]

I did last month in austin...my house will be worth double in 10 years

[@GT-jm7ti]

Has happened in Western North Carolina. Housing prices are completely out of touch and traffic is out of control!

[@agolftweetler3995]

'once they flood in' - this has been happening for well over a decade now.

[@hydrogencyanide2493]

@Larry T Sounds like someone likes Stanley Kubrick

[@whasian2007]

I’m surprised they have Colion Noir on here, the same guys that didn’t know John Oliver was white after watching his show 😂

[@mariolis]

For those who say "dont California my Texas" In the 2018 Governor election , If only NATIVE TEXANS voted , the result would be D+3 , but if only NEWCOMERS voted , the Result would be R+15 Californians leaving for Texas are even more Republican than the average native Texan It just so happens that Democrats move to big cities while Republicans prefer rural areas , thats why Austin is so liberal for example

[@manicpepsicola3431]

A lot of us do vote but they make it hard for many people who are poor to vote and the state is gerrymandered out the ass it feels like no matter what we do nothing happens but there is a lot of people here that just don't vote and it really sucks because there is a huge amount of people who would vote blue that are native Texans people here feel like they can't make change especially working class people the amount of people in my life I've helped register to vote is insane I'm doing my part here to get people around me to vote and other young people around here have been trying too not everyone but you're right about people moving here voting red it makes it even more difficult to make any change since they're flooding in and canceling out some of the progress we have been making

[@idkwhatsgoingon4584]

yet all Native Democrats in Texas literally vote Republican just because of Gun issues

[@mariolis]

@@idkwhatsgoingon4584Nope , the state is R+10 , that meas there are plenty of actively voting democrats ,many of whom probably dont even like guns its just that republicans outnumber them and more republicans move to Texas than Democrats

[@idkwhatsgoingon4584]

@@mariolis something tells me you never actually been to Texas before

[@mariolis]

@@idkwhatsgoingon4584 the majority being a certain way doesn't mean everyone is that way

[@torang_]

Years from now: "Is Mars becoming the new Earth?"

[@Orbt_]

That what all the interest seems to be for in Mars.

[@enemay]

@@Orbt_ Commies multiply like gremlins

[@levitorres4617]

I'd laugh at that, but it's all become too real. Them young adventurous Dems love wrecking havoc in red states.

[@encouragingasset9060]

This is a good comment

[@suntzu1409]

"You either die as a california rival or live enough to become california itself"

[@Cbd_7ohm]

That's funny.

[@alirazayousif8976]

Lol Cali Sucks 👎🏻

[@MrCrowley925]

@@alirazayousif8976 sucks the big one for sure

[@severedyakhead9702]

@@alirazayousif8976 California is cancer

[@foursongs]

@@severedyakhead9702 depending where, I love Cali, and hate it at the same time. Waaaay too many homeless people and high prices unless it’s in a undesirable area.

[@WorldlyMusi]

These tech companies flocking to Texas should know a little something called "surge pricing"

[@sanbruno6010]

PEACE LOVE ONE ANOTHER HONESTY PROSPERITY RESPECT FREE THINKING GOOD HEALTH OPTIMISM

[@thefuture4266]

I moved to Texas from NJ, it’s so much better here. It feels good to experience change down here. There’s a lot of people I know my age moving down here

[@504ever4]

Texas is being California-ed, Florida is being New York-ed, Virginia has already been New Jerseyed, Arizona has already been California-ed, and New Hampshire has already been Massachusettsed. Idaho better watch out because it's next.

[@carlbowles1808]

Hilarious and true. You can run but you can't hide.

[@lisalph8922]

My bro moved from CA to SL about a year ago. He just moved to ID because SL was too expensive already.

[@teetrav]

Yes!!! Lol!!!

[@cnelsonlv99]

Idaho will be Utahed.

[@AbusarayaAdi]

Soo true

[@UmmYeahOk]

“Our real estate costs are a third of what you get in the Bay Area”... ...for now. Property values have risen significantly in the last 5 years, and the reason is BECAUSE they’re relocating.

[@h1inc816]

People in California are richer, and will absolutely price people in Texas out which will be incredibly ironic. It's like they don't even see it coming

[@candylove49]

Supply and demand.

[@kyleolson9636]

But it still won't reach the levels of the Bay Area because there simply is more space. Houston is the 4th largest US city and will soon overtake Chicago, but mostly because the city spans 669 square miles vs Chicago's 234. Everything is excessively more spread out in Texas. It's cities aren't surrounded by water, dense forest, or mountains in the same way California's largest cities are.

[@cellophanezombie5621]

Same with LV. It's just the grandest of irony how these heavy capitalists don't realize what is impending. But it's the same millionaires who are looking for that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality" 🙄

[@cellophanezombie5621]

@@kyleolson9636 I agree with you regarding space, but with no income tax the capital each of these individuals have is significantly higher, meaning they can drive the market higher.

[@lisao6928]

I have an interview for a job in Texas. I live in San Diego, while I would love more affordable living, I don't think I want to trade beaches and mountains for a place with no mountains or ocean, tornadoes, and bad weather.

[@dravenlasley8516]

Can you do a video on how people are also moving to New Mexico. And how New Mexico is an underrated growing state.

[@iTasteTheTim]

"Don't come here and turn here into why you left there"

[@BiblicallyAccurateToaster]

Oh they will within a decade. Progressives did it to my state & it's quickly turning into an overpriced overregulated cess pool.

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Yes..

[@WERob-to5sp]

Excellent comment

[@emmaq3250]

This is why when I fled my home state, I didn't move to a super popular state like Texas. If you're gonna move, research and find a place that speaks to you on a personal level. It's common sense that when a ton of people move to the same area, it gets expensive and poorly run

[@Juicy_J713]

The Midwest is incredibly underrated. Indiana/Ohio are incredibly business friendly and great places to raise a family

[@kbanghart]

@@Juicy_J713 how are the income taxes and property taxes? How is healthcare? How's the weather? What is the average salary?

[@vimos.9996]

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[@justinrucker2807]

Very smart thought process.

[@kbanghart]

@@vimos.9996 I will, but I'd also like to hear from someone who actually lives there and knows the numbers right off the top of their head.

[@joshuaandino]

10 years from now: Is Arizona the new Florida? Is Nevada the new New York? Is Utah the Oregon? Is Belgium the new France?

[@sidousri9319]

The last one is hilarious and accurate

[@stephensepan291]

what will keep california popular is the weather. always did ,always will.

[@eticketride]

I do feel Texas will become the next California. That said, I would be happy to be wrong about that.

[@amelyntan6704]

Just the crappy bits.

[@agolftweetler3995]

'I do feel Texas will be the next CA' - mountains, vineyards, Pacific beaches and mild coastal climates? Not a chance.

[@epicaunleashed8764]

@@agolftweetler3995 you know what he meant very well. It'll become a leftist shithole.

[@bigpimping15]

It’s probably going to become something similar like California but in its own way

[@mith2946]

California became California because of the weather. Texas doesn't have that, the heat sucks.

[@joshuagreen2976]

"There's plenty of room, like, there are just farmer's fields just waiting to be developed." That pretty much sums up the attitude of the new arrivals into Texas. Good luck.

[@karmenjane1257]

I was thinking the same thing, the nerve!

[@mcg976]

So, we will have no farmlands?

[@AliceLee333]

I thought this statement was awful! Already trying to change Texas in so many ways! Please stop!

[@karmenjane1257]

@@mcg976 that’s what transplants are thinking from New York and California. They think they’re so much smarter and don’t realize how dumb they really sound. If we wanted concrete jungles all over the state we would have it by now. We’re an oil and gas, ranching and farming state.

[@MamawsBiscuits]

Who woulda thought people from California would be selfish and nearsighted?

[@rjmurray5128]

The cost of living, especially real estate is soaring in TX, not just because of folks moving there from CA but from all other states as well. I would give it another 20 years or less and it will resemble the crowded urban sprawl like in LA or major East Coast cities, FL is also heading in the same direction.

[@butterbruhh]

10 years from now: "Is California becoming the new New Texas?"

[@ryanr3618]

That's how it always starts, they seek out lack of regulations so they can then regulate it in their favor.

[@NAUM1]

Or the government starts to enact legislation and the businesses realize they can have input. Keep government small and it wouldn't be influenced so much.

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

People should be treated like corporations. Corporations don't go to jail, even for murdering masses of people (negligent homicide). They just get fined. Would definitely free up prisons and increase state revenue.

[@mohammedal-rawi3420]

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[@Brandon-qr2or]

@@user-nf9xc7ww7m I like your idea. How can we get this off the ground

[@watamatafoyu]

"The government shouldn't get in the way!" "(It should do what we tell it to)"

[@ateezyrozaytv1]

10 years from now: Is Utah becoming The New California?

[@eddiewillers1]

30 years from now, "Is Alberta about to out-Texas Texas?"

[@lecookie007]

Pfff. I'm in Utah, and it's already happening right now. Our average home price is 408k. Smh

[@brandonkelbe]

You mean Colorado ool

[@bostonplace2314]

With Mitt Romney ...Oh YEAH! That Good For Nothing Banker Robber Barron Crook!!!

[@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr]

Arkansas. Thats the place.

[@lh6097]

Cost of living is much lower but the minimum wage is $7.25.

[@aarontactical]

The only reason why I’m planning to move and permanently settle in Texas is to build up my ranch and live the Cowboy Way Of Life

[@andrewschwenke720]

Good luck. Cattle business is pretty hard to profit in these days

[@Airooadrith]

hearing that guy say "there's farmers fields just waiting to be developed!" made me wince

[@Lyrandar]

same.

[@glorymanheretosleep]

Hearing that guy say, "it feels extra...pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is about to discover blue folk don't buy into that.

[@cannabisbananabis5031]

Me too.

[@blandgreen4135]

Made me sick to hear that's how they think of farmland. Just something to turn into housing developments. Disgusting.

[@vegao22]

@@blandgreen4135 it’s so disgusting to develop housing that prevents a lack of one which will lead to higher prices to the point where you end up with a small apartment that’s sets you back 1500 a month!!!!

[@harshaj5076]

this sounded like a 20 min advertisement for moving to Texas

[@askeladd60]

There's no better advertisement to red states than the incompetence seen in Blue states

[@pietr1036]

@@askeladd60 oh yeah, don't forget the blue cities carrying the red states ....

[@Swagalious689]

@@pietr1036 that's funny blue states claim to carry red states but red states hold opposite views of governance and blue states run to live in red states.

[@Franklinsone]

15min. I stopped after it talked about heat and humidity. SoCal weather is the best. In the winter, play in snow and swim at the beach on the same day. During summer, we escape to the mountain or beach if it gets too hot. Hardly use AC or Heat in SoCal.

[@phoenix5054]

All CNBC videos sounded like ads.

[@johnjrandazzo]

55 yo California native here. In 1985 I put a bumper sticker on my first car that read “Welcome to California. Now go home.” Don’t know if it will change your politics, but it will change a lot.

[@57yota11]

Hey! You got your California in my Texas!

[@easadventures1349]

"It gets hot for 3 months straight" lol that's cute, I wish it was only 3 months.

[@CajunMojo222]

I think they meant it it "is tolerable 3 months a year", Love my Texas.. Don't California my Texas.

[@paulies5407]

come to england. it's overcast 70% all year round and windy.

[@SNNetwork]

Probably mean hotter than California. But when your out on the open like that it’s much hotter than around a city

[@senorpepper3405]

@@vids595 but its a dry heat :)

[@truthiscensored]

I know this the USA, but people in Cali Colombia deal with hot weather all 12 months

[@ericvulgate]

people are leaving the coasts b/c there are too many rules, then showing up in texas and going 'hey- there aren't any rules!' they are going to re-create what they ran away from.

[@ralphpal]

Well those non rules cost tax payers money Because of non rules We always have to pay for hurricanes Where in Florida with rules We dont have to pay anything Cause they make hurrican proof houses

[@Samuraid77]

They're a disease

[@DavidCruz-hb7ui]

Not entirely true. California isn't as liberal as people think. In fact, California had the most people that voted Republican (for trump) in the 2020 election, even more than Texas or Florida! Not everyone moving from California is liberal, there are plenty of conservatives though they are greatly outnumbered the left-leaning people, clearly. And this is coming from a Californian :)

[@Randor11]

If you have a system where there aren't many rules, then that means some people will do some bad things, for years and years, and get away with it. After awhile, it can become a bad habit, and can grow endlessly like a bad disease.

[@-SmoothCriminal-]

Why do you even care. You probably won’t be around when it gets “bad”. Just live your damn life and if it gets to the point that you can’t live there anymore because of the “dems” policies then just find a new place that’s more conservative.

[@tiffanyc8307]

I hope the hell not make housing unaffordable

[@mchlwachowski]

Watch Gavin Newsome run for Texas governor 😅🤣

[@Lomi311]

From Austin I can say the growth and gentrification is insane. Median home price in the city limits is almost $500,000. I can’t afford my home town anymore.

[@FactorySettings_]

Houston is also being rapidly gentrified. I hope it doesn't become Los Angeles 2.0

[@garrisonbrown1170]

@@FactorySettings_ It will if tech companies keep doing this. They already did it to the Bay area.

[@DIVISIONINCISION]

Why would you want to live in Austin anyway? Overcrowded and homeless everywhere. Leander and Cedar Park are nice, but too expensive.

[@DIVISIONINCISION]

@Carefully Considered Why would you ever live near Atlanta if crime and safer living was a factor for you? You saw the race riots (BLM) a few months ago, right? That can happen again. It's not a safe city at all.

[@s_spiritstar]

@@FactorySettings_ I’m a Californian and that scares me

[@veronicabanales5255]

According to these comments, it sounds like every state is being screwed by California but not Alaska.

[@mellojoe9421]

Because California is poorly run. And people are concerned that their state will follow. I think that’s a valid reason why one would worry.

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[@Ascend777]

@@mellojoe9421 How is CA poorly run? The high cost of living in CA is caused by the market, not government interference. Common sense would tell you cost increases as demand increases.

[@pissedminnow]

Even here in Pennsylvania we are feeling the effects of the California political ideology and are getting frustrated and feed up.

[@1800levso]

I live in a 4 Bd 3 bath home about 2k per month in California. I guess I'm lucky. most people that own homes in the Bay area got them when they were affordable, now they are selling and moving out. a friend of mine got his home back in year 2000 for 250k he already paid it, now his home is market value at 1.5 million. buying a home in California was the best decision a lot of people made.

[@InsightsAbroad]

How long before the humidity destroys them?

[@mem3656]

"our real estate costs are a third of california" wait this will change soon.

[@fortnajt]

Well if the migrate in all states for 15 years each then they will develop all states and leave them to the locals

[@kyordy]

There’s little to no zoning restrictions in Texas. It will take a VERY long time to overfill the system. Electric and water infrastructure on the other hand...we’re already screwed. Energy prices are what’s gonna skyrocket.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

Houston and LA have a similar GDP per capita and a population over 1 million, yet Houston has less taxes and regulations, and housing costs half of what it does in LA. It's the policies of the people. CA's people are impractical and rotten to the core when called on their bull.

[@jeremysmith3760]

They're working on that all up and down 35.

[@georgejesson1944]

Buy now or is it already too late?

[@dejulesb974]

"There are farmer's fields waiting to be developed" What do you mean by that? the purpose of those fields is to produce food. Nothing more. Don't start expanding and taking the farmer's land.

[@o_oqwertyuiop5680]

Ikr what a dumb thing to say 😒

[@hellenicboi14]

All that matters to these people is endless acquisition. There is more than enough wealth and commodities on earth to distribute to the world and get them jumpstarted, but all that matters is making a line on a graph go up.

[@user-hq3lh4qo1l]

I thought they meant they can develop/create more farms/farmland... oof

[@notlehsydna]

yeah it sucks i grew up about a hour away from Houston and we had about 10,000 people max forever here, in the last4-5 years its over 100,000. all the fields and woods i grew up riding dirt bikes and horses , fishing, hunting, and just doing kid things is all houses and businesses. luckily we are still at the "edge of civilization" and still have the country right outside town but still it sucks when they modernize a town built in 1837.

[@monnikhan1000]

Monsanto already taking up their land bruh

[@CFloPhotography]

Summary of the video "i want the luxury's and benefits of California, but don't want to pay for it." the irony

[@lizhutchinson6978]

"Microsoft is a major employer in the Dallas area"....*shows video of Seattle* 🙃

[@wl9170]

"Farmers fields just waiting to be developed" such a short-sighted statement.

[@blackdynamite4532]

I thought the same thing

[@user-vf3cb7vk8z]

Cities need to be destroyed. These people don't value anything. Nothing is sacred to them.

[@MrCTruck]

Texas is just one big urban sprawl.

[@jimbeaux89]

It’s the sad truth

[@davideogamer8086]

@@MrCTruck east texas maybe, west texas naw

[@Halfdead211]

Just like how Austin is affordable so was The Bay Area before tech got here

[@AnjewTate]

*Democrats

[@hd-sf9li]

@@AnjewTate Austin is already governed by democrats, try again

[@vanquish421]

Austin is not affordable. Take it from a house-poor Austinite.

[@AnthonyDoesYouTube]

@@hd-sf9li *illegals

[@MazinkaiserV]

@@hd-sf9li and its not affordable by texas standards. Democrats ruined Austin a long time ago.

[@larrywasson1543]

As a Native Texan I can say Texas is not what it was. I hope to move out of state within the next few years.

[@beo456]

Is Texas Becoming The New California? Nope, its becoming the new Florida.

[@cb11368]

3 years from now: "Is Oklahoma becoming the new Texas?"

[@etiennedegaulle3817]

More like the new India. I had a tech job try to recruit me to either Brno, Czech Republic or Oklahoma City. The cost of employing me was about the same in each location. I passed.

[@OrdiNance85]

(insert any republican run state).... Blows my mind that they cant just admit it.

[@Platano_macho]

I just moved to Oklahoma and met some Californians, told them they need to leave their liberal stupidity in California

[@Cositahermosa]

Never

[@jameslim3850]

One day when United States lose its dominance of the world , mark my words, Texas and California will be independent nations. This is the same like the Soviet Union collapse.

[@Sam-ou8il]

Those aren't "rats" in my studio apartment, they're my roommates, and they have names

[@achmadiqbal80]

How rats 🐀 can climb your apartment?

[@DIVISIONINCISION]

Get a career and you'll be able to afford a house, Sammy.

[@SuperSpecialty]

@@DIVISIONINCISION I did get a career, got married, had three children & have a home. Money is the root of all evil, because of greed, just as this video espouses!

[@clintgolub1751]

😂

[@MaximGhost]

@Carefully Considered Having platonic human roommates in a studio apartment would be pushing it.

[@entidy]

read the title and just imagined furries with cowboy hats on lmao

[@AMM0beatz]

In 2005 a nice home in austin would run around $150k, quadripple that today.

[@supersaiyansalamence]

"Is Texas becoming the new California?" Hank Hill: BWAAAAA!!!

[@RohithRPai]

Dale is gonna throw a fit... if he is seeing this.

[@fghyjhku]

Lol 😆🤣

[@arielayala5974]

god dam it bobby.

[@Longmatti1]

Hank:"Those commies use....gawww......charcoal".

[@stephangomez4451]

That was my exact reaction when I saw the title

[@aj7291]

Spoken like a true Californian, "There is tons of room, like there are just farmers fields waiting to be developed everywhere around here."

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[@Jajaky]

Just sickening

[@nopeandnope5195]

Yea what he said just hit me in the wrong way and is just horrifying.

[@moeynola6747]

Yea that didn't sit well with me. Like wtf is that suppose to mean?

[@michael3556]

@Jacob Nelson They're not making any more land, sell at your own peril.

[@OnlineToughGuy]

So Texans went from “no one can tell me what to do or who to vote for” to “we tell you what to do and who to vote for”? 🤔

[@Affluent-Ghetto-Blackman]

Exactly!!!😭😂These people are simply practicing the same rights they love to say we all have.

[@trans-octopusspacealien8883]

When you are a refugee from Commiefornia you don't get to dictate anything. Remember. You're not a missionary.

[@javiervazquez9472]

A lot of people forget how big California is. Fact is, we share a lot of similarities. Both states are overshadowed by politics and I feel creates a rift between the 2 states.

[@jetsethi]

Texas is experiencing what made California. It wasn't always this way, but then it became a very attractive place for business which brought people. It seems like it has reached its saturation point. It's interesting to see the waves

[@aiv4873]

Texas has been too buisness friendly, so much so that later it'll probably come to bite then back. I just hope that when exas changes it's laws, it doesn't mess up the economy there. BTW what I mean by coming to bite them back, is that they won't be able to do much for their people or build infrastructure if they keep lowering taxes for big companies, and smaller income sources will have to pay for the big companies.

[@Dangic23]

Very true. It's cyclical. But our US folks have short term memory, and do not realize it. Before CA became a powerhouse, the people that made that, came from the NE, after that area became saturated. And after TX goes through it, it will move somewhere else.

[@mayaal9352]

@@Dangic23 this is why I am moving Texas

[@marccus1989]

@steven sandy LOL!!! NO california doesnt have the money, what made the infrastructure has been gone and the pandemic exposed this..people are just finally waking up..and believe me texas WILL BUILD and do anything and everything to rack in the businesses for its already booming economy..dont compare my texas to what califonia failed to do!

[@YReezyGang]

@@marccus1989 lol failed to do? California has the biggest and best economy, tx is still stuck in the 1800s, glad they finally figured out electricity lmao maybe you'll get wifi next 🤣🤣🤣

[@wabio]

The caveat. When you bring in the big companies with their big worker paychecks.........those middle class housing prices will go up fast. It's a trade off.

[@salmonline]

Don't forget the Dems. They come with the high paying jobs and will finish the task of turning texas blue.😉👌

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[@a.p.2018]

That makes me just want to buy an RV and move when that happens

[@NPAMike]

Yea but not every big company is going to Texas they are going spreading across texas, nevada, california and NC and other places. So you won't have the concentration of highly paid employees like you did in the bay area. So while some home prices may go up it won't be unaffordable housing, and also because Texas is so big they have enough space to create more housing where as California everybody just wanted to go to LA or San Francisco.

[@ednabirkdale7403]

@@NPAMike california actually has more major cities than texas so thats not true at all

[@MarthaM4858]

It’s more than the prices going up, it’s the attitude people from California bring with them.

[@Romansbook]

Ya’ll all flocking to the hottest, most expensive states to live in. As someone who lives in CA, and has lived in Texas, trust me, unless you have family there, you do not want to live in either places.

[@andrewsmithphoto]

I moved to Austin about a year before all the business started coming here. The technocrats are smothering the area financially and stamping out all the things that made Austin unique. Austin will be the next silicon valley with insanely overpriced homes failing utilities and frightening financial inequity.

[@vingham7588]

And where did YOU come from?

[@ryanadams0922]

cant wait to hear what is going to happen

[@bretroberts950]

That's why I'm buying up rental properties in DFW. I have apartments ready for all of the tech savvy Californians and everytime my taxes goes up I'm raising their rent!

[@nyclurker603]

Same thing happened to Seattle. At least NYC had the balls to tell Amazon to get lost

[@solomons5669]

Cool story

[@Swaggachu]

Texans: Texas is the best way better than California Californians: ok great I’m coming over. Texans: What? No that’s not what I meant.

[@joemann7971]

Jim Jefferies said a while back about the US. If you want people to stop coming into the US, stop telling everyone its so great. Lol. Likewise, Texans need to stop telling everyone else its so damn great. Lol. Texans should just be like: Texas sucks. You don't want to come here. You'll hate it.

[@joetz1]

You can come just leave your bad ideas behind

[@salmonline]

@@joetz1 We're coming for you, Texas. Put up a stink and we'll give you back to Mexico. Try us... 😉👌

[@cleberz8072]

The trick for a liberal takeover in Texas by the IT companies is very easy: just let them own their toy guns and instead of implementing state income tax, just raise all the other tax already in place, like real estate and property taxes, road tolls, sales taxes, admission to parks and so on. The vast majority of them already can't live in the liberal cities anyway so it's not like they bother each other

[@whathell6t]

@@cleberz8072 Except! You forgot to factor the Tejanos, Mexican-Americans from the Spanish Viceroy Era & 1st Mexican Republic. It’s way different, down to even their conservatism.

[@kawaiidere1023]

We need to update zoning if we want to make the most of this growth

[@jack8356]

We already have a ton of traffic

[@tundaiclark8154]

All they're going to do is raise the property taxes and the cost of living. Because texas is the new place to be.the people originally from texas will have to adapt or move...

[@Mariet31]

exactly, if the demand for housing market increases too much, that equals homeless middle class people. It wil be another dead city like HK, NY, CA... homeless and junkie people everywhere.

[@punkgrl325]

@@Mariet31 NY actually has very low tolerance for the homeless. Especially in NYC, De Blasio gave NYPD freedom to remove people however they wish.

[@hirokoai3013]

Already done. They are less than 1 % of the total population in Texas, and their lifestyle has changed more in three centurie than in the millenium before. They adapted and moved.

[@redwingsfan713]

Do you honestly think that only Californians are moving to Texas? That is very ignorant. If it wasn’t for Californians or other people moving into the state, The Texas economy wouldn’t be as robust as it is. The Texas governor and state legislature set property taxes not the people moving in

[@KayOScode]

@@redwingsfan713 the people moving in vote for things like taxes. It makes sense that a dependent group moving in will pay for more taxes and thus make the state blue

[@InconceivableSandwichChannel]

“Farmlands waiting to be developed.” What does he mean 😬

[@JM-nt5ex]

Farmlands are always developed, they surround cities and get developed when the city needs to expand, if they don't expand into the farmland, you get a housing market like in California(one of their largest, if not the largest issue in Cali long term)

[@kayumochi]

That says it all, doesn't it?

[@robertd3139]

Tx is a pretty good places for farms and so they will make more since more farms from the up west and south

[@RetroHabit82]

Bill Gates will buy it all up soon enough. Watch out

[@side-fish]

Why don't people build taller instead of building horizontally?

[@themapoe]

As a woman in STEM, I will never, ever take a job in the South. Why would I go somewhere where the politicians see me as a walking human incubator? Respect is important to me and being treated as a uterus with legs is the opposite of that.

[@honeztearthling987]

Aaaand just like that the government stopped all these builders and house selling opportunist by hiking the heck out of interest rates. Paying 7% percent on an interest loan isn’t a good idea.