Our quiz provides a starting point for such reveries. It’s a phenomenon that is the topic of much media coverage nowadays - though, in fact, mobility in the United States is inversely related to income: People suffering economic hardship tend to move more often than wealthy people.īut anyway, everyone imagines greener pastures now and then. Mine is certainly a privileged flight of fancy if I left California, I’d be one of the hordes of remote-working elites fleeing local problems and driving up house prices in once-pleasant little towns around the country. There’s got to be somewhere better, right? Not a month goes by that I don’t wonder what I’m doing here. Still, there’s plenty going wrong - soaring housing costs, devastating poverty and inequality, and the cascading disasters brought about by a change in what was once our big selling point, the climate.
I’ve lived in California nearly all my life, and it’s still more likely than not that I will remain here reports of a sudden “exodus” from the state are frequently exaggerated.
