Stories about corporations, businesses, and just plain people fleeing the squalor, overregulation, crime, lawlessness, lawfare, taxation, and Democrat arrogant stupidity of blue states and cities are common these days. New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul, among those who have insulted and told businesses, and the wealthy in general, they don’t belong in her state unless they’re as leftist as she is, was recently whacked upside the head by economic reality. Having chased much of New York’s tax base out of the state, Hochul recently began to beg them to come back so they could be taxed into penury yet again. Amazingly, they’re not taking Hochul up on her generous offer.
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On the other hand, U-Haul is doing great, and knows who is leading the field in forcing productive people and businesses to flee:
More people are fleeing California than any other state — as Golden Staters pack up and head to places like Texas and Florida, according to a new U-Haul analysis.
California ranked dead last for the sixth time in a row on the moving and storage rental company’s list of “growth states.”
California’s threat to tax billionaires has accelerated the movement of the most productive, and taxpaying citizens and companies out of the state. Even so, California is trying to tax those who have fled due to high taxes:
We’re also learning which states have most benefited from the influx of people and companies who like to keep their shoes free of human feces and governmental busybodyism:
Texas has emerged as the biggest winner in corporate America’s flight from high-tax blue states, attracting a wave of headquarters relocations as companies increasingly abandon costly coastal hubs for lower-tax Republican strongholds.
The relocation wave is reshaping the balance of economic power in America, boosting red-state economies while raising fresh questions about whether high taxes and regulation are driving companies out of blue-state strongholds.
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Dallas-Fort Worth led the nation with 111 headquarters relocations between 2018 and 2025, according to a CBRE [Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis] report, while Austin added 88 and Houston gained 31. Together, the three Texas hubs have became one of the nation’s biggest magnets for corporate relocations.
CBRE found 725 companies relocated headquarters during that seven-year period, with many citing growth opportunities, lower operating costs and lighter regulation as key reasons for moving.
That’s a ruinous loss of tax revenue for California, New York, and other relentlessly blue states. This is darkly hilarious:
The San Francisco Bay Area posted a net loss of 163 headquarters during the same period Texas posted gains. Companies leaving California frequently cited taxes, labor rules and soaring living costs as reasons for relocating elsewhere, CBRE found.
Florida, and particularly Miami, is second only to Texas in welcoming political immigrants. There is certainly worry about Californians and the residents of other blue states moving to red states, only to try to impose their Democrat politics on the places to which they moved to escape Democrat politics. Fortunately, that seems to be largely wishful thinking on the part of Democrats. People forced to spend the money to uproot their lives tend to be refugees, not missionaries.
Fox further notes:
The migration is also becoming increasingly political.
You don’t say.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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