This week’s deadly wildfires wiping out iconic Hollywood sites and the homes of those with stars on the “Walk of Fame” are just the latest reason thousands of Californians are saying “adios” to the Golden State.
The latest moving map from U-Haul showed that Californians are fleeing the state plagued by high taxes, mudslides, wildfires, high crime, homelessness, and drought. And they are going anywhere but down the street.
The U-Haul report was released earlier this month, and media reports mostly focused on where people were going and less on where they were fleeing. People are leaving high-tax, Democratic states.
But the wildfires in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Hollywood Hills, and other Los Angeles suburbs had us interested in U-Haul’s experience in California last year.
In the report, the state’s statistics jump out. For the fifth year, California ranks as the state with the most one-way moves out.
“California experienced the greatest net loss of do-it-yourself movers in U-Haul equipment and ranks 50th for the fifth consecutive year,” U-Haul said.
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The study said that 51% of U-Haul rentals in California are for departures.
“State-to-state transactions from the past year reaffirm customer tendencies that have been pronounced for some time,” stated John “J.T.” Taylor, U-Haul International president. “Migration to the Southeast and Southwest continues as families gauge their cost of living, job opportunities, quality of life, and other factors that go into relocating to a new state. Out-migration remains prevalent for a number of markets across the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast — and particularly California.”
