Dave Horton, 58, lived in California for 40 years. Two months ago, he and his wife packed up their Bay Area home and moved across the country to Tampa, Florida—joining thousands of other residents fleeing the state.
California’s beautiful coastal beaches, mild weather, and laid-back culture aren’t enough to keep residents around anymore, they say. Thus, migration to other states has been coined the “California Exodus.”
“It’s a general tenor that the respect for [the] middle class or upper middle class and the wealthy has diminished,” Horton told The Epoch Times. “And it seemed like the state is moving more toward the ultra-haves or the ultra-poor with no space in the middle.”…