According to a poll conducted by Strategies 360 for the Los Angeles Times, while 70% of California happy in the state, 40% of Californians are thinking of leaving, Breitbart reports.

The poll conducted in early June found:

“Robust majorities of residents across regional, demographic, and racial lines feel happy about living in California (71%), report that living in California is important to their personal identities (68%), and say California is a place where they fit in and feel comfortable (68%).”

I think that we can safely say that people love the near-perfect, climate, the beaches, and everything that the state naturally offers, but they hate what the politicians have done to California:

• They hate the out-of-control lawlessness due to the soft-on-crime policies.
• They hate the exploding homelessness again a direct result of government policies.
• They hate the lost opportunities as businesses are being forced to leave the state because of political mismanagement.
• They hate how government regulations hindered new home construction driving up the cost of housing. (At one point, California was only building 25% of the new homes that the state need because of regulations.)
• They hate the high taxes, and
• They hate the state’s environmental policies that are leading to electrical blackouts.

As the LA Times explains:

More than 40% of residents say they’re contemplating moving out of California, with nearly half of them saying they’re considering that “very seriously.” About 61% pointed to the high cost of living here as the reason they’d go. People of color are far more likely to say that the expense of living in California is the reason they might leave. About 71% of residents who are either Black or Asian/Pacific Islander and considering relocating cited the cost of living.

Nearly 30% of those surveyed said they might leave because the state’s policies and laws don’t align with their political views, a reflection of the polarization of the state and the nation at the moment. Respondents who identified as conservative were much more likely to cite the politics of the state as the reason why they were considering moving.

Self-identified Republicans were three times as likely as Democrats to say that the state’s politics were why they wanted to go.

READ: Poll: Nearly 70% Happy in California, but Over 40% Think of Leaving

And these are not just empty threats. People are actually leaving. In 2021, California reported the first drop in population in 150 years. READ: California leaving: State population declines for first time AND FOR 2022: For Second Straight Year, California Sees a Population Decline

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