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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They don't have better retention rates.

CA, NY, IL and MA are all in the top 5 for states that have the most people leaving.

TX, FL, NC and AZ are attracting the most people.

Massachusetts has priced out average people. If you aren't the inheritor of some generational wealth you have a better chance of being upwardly mobile elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That really has mostly to do with the high cost of living. And it's going to be high in an area inhabited by businesses on the cutting edge of technology. Those jobs have high wages because they need highly educated people, and highly educated people come from the best universities in the country, many of which are in Boston, and Cambridge. Not to mention the great schools in commuter range in Providence and Worcester.

Red states don't have higher education, and they don't have innovative industry, so they don't have the population density issues that blue states have.

Maybe if red states had these things, they'd have a high cost of living, too.

Most of the people fleeing MA for those states are working remotely for their companies still in MA. Mostly DINKS and young (primarily male) single professionals that don't really have public education or healthcare as any sort of immediate concern. That's gonna lead to problems when the average age of red state populations inverts itself. Better make sure that they can't not have babies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is due to rent gouging, not democrats.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You can't blame "rent gouging" without blaming the government for condoning it and setting up the conditions that encourage it.

The cost of living in blue states is absolutely due to city/state level Democrats. Democrats write the zoning laws. Democrats decide the tax laws. Democrats build the infrastructure and public transportation. Democrats also vote down rent control and affordable housing requirements.

Red states are controlled by rich Republicans. Blue states are controlled by rich Democrats. Sure, Republican rule makes Oklahoma the shit hole that it is. But don't try to give Democrats a pass for making Massachusetts as expensive as it is.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's from rental agencies that do as they please out of greed. They don't condition anything, they just don't do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they just don't do anything about it.

Even after ignoring everything I said, you still admit I'm right. If the local government doesn't do anything about it, who is supposed to?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago