I didn't click 'show' on krazen's post but I'm sure whatever he said is absurd, flat-out wrong, or both.
Not wrong just completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. If anything, it's just making the Democrats' point that higher tax states are better places to live if you take the surveys together.
I suppose it might be ok for some. Connecticut ranks 45th in population growth and 44th in net migration.
I am so confused as to how that relates. When people get past working age, they leave the high paced New York metro area to either be more successful in a less high pressure (and thus usually less income) west coast job or go to a warm retirement location in a tax free southern state. It doesn't make sense to live there and pay property taxes when you stop using the amenities like the excellent schools. Why would anybody move to cold Connecticut? It's hard to go from a poor state to a rich state. Most of this country would die to have such amenities. They can't move in. Also, the lack of any rural area means there is going to be less population growth as the suburbs usually have pretty good birth control. The whole state is a suburb. Population has nothing to do
New York City seems like a tough place to live. City government has been very paternalistic for a very long time. Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg would be insufferable almost anywhere else. Real estate costs are astronomical and taxes are high. Population density itself imposes economic regimentation.
But if you are at the top of your game, then you belong in New York City...maybe San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Boston, Certainly not the rural South
If you're at the top of your game, you can live wherever the hell you want.
If you're poor, you face a tradeoff in that expensive states like New York are also often places where the poor are more likely to become non-poor, while low-cost states like Alabama and Texas may give the poor more purchasing power but also offer fewer opportunities to move out of poverty.
Arguably, if you're a poor "striver" with a very clear ambition and set of goals, you should move to a major city, deal with the high housing costs and take advantage of things like affordable public transportation and education to climb up the socioeconomic ladder. If you just want to "maintain" in a state of manageable squalor, you ought to decamp to a mobile home in the rural/suburban South. You won't have to worry about getting evicted and you'll always be able to afford dirt-cheap processed food at Walmart, but you'll have to accept that your children will never be able to expect anything more unless they join the military and get them to pay for their education.
