Moving to get a better job or move up the workplace chain is nothing new. But what’s going on here seems different — people leaving not for better jobs or pay, but because housing elsewhere is so much cheaper they can live the middle-class life that eludes them in California.
This isn't new or different. At some point in 2006 I saw a news story where a realtor claimed there was no housing bubble in CA. We all know how that worked out.