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Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by Traster on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:44PM (#25365641)
>There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California

No. There's a trend of rich people commissioning articles about them leaving california. Articles which provide literally zero evidence of a trend.

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Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by somethoughts on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:51PM (#25365737)
It's also quick click-able - California is a brand - somewhat like Apple and Tesla itself.

The media likes to build up hype brands and then do exposes to deflate them. It's different parts of the media doing different hyping/deflating.

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Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by djur on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:19PM (#25369233)
There was similarly a little mini-trend of rich people making a big show of renouncing their US citizenship in the Obama years, with probably a 10:1 ratio of articles to people who actually did it.
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