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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by brobdingnagians on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:22AM (#24660689)
A lot of people are leaving California anyways, and economies in other states are booming, so jumping on that ship with good compensation, even for the short term, is a win-win for anyone who is looking to get out while the getting is good. I know someone who moved _to_ California from another state a few years ago and got the truck virtually for free because the truck company had so many more people going in the opposite direction. But then they paid very high prices for the truck when they left.
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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by dragonwriter on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:27AM (#24660713)
> A lot of people are leaving California anyways

Yeah, but the out-migration is largely at the low-end of the economic scale; with net in-migration at the high end.

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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by maxlamb on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:47AM (#24660806)
This was true in the past but this year with covid and the fires it’s likely the high end will see a big out-migration as well... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/12/san-francisc...
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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by dragonwriter on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:10AM (#24662760)
That article neither says nor supports your “it’s likely that” conclusion (which is about San Francisco not CA as a whole, and is almost entirely speculative back and forth between different advocacy group spokespeople.)
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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by bobwall on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:08PM (#24668913)
Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, and Joe Rogan all are on the high end, and all have headed out. I also headed out, but I am only on the high end in terms of total world population, but they are real high enders fleeing the myriad of issues coming to a head in good ole CA in 2020.
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