“Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Fading movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) utters those words in the final scene of “Sunset Boulevard,” Billy Wilder’s 1950 film noir …
By Michael Sasso | Bloomberg Score a victory for Mayberry. America’s small towns, like the iconic setting of television’s The Andy Griffith Show from the 1960s, saw more in-migration in …
California’s population grew for the first time in three years as legal immigration rebounded and the great California exodus during the COVID pandemic dramatically slowed as remote workers returned to …
By ADAM BEAM | Associated Press SACRAMENTO — The nation’s most populous state is growing again. California gained population last year for the first time since 2019, according to a …
Borrowing an old bromide, when the stock market sneezes, California’s state government catches pneumonia. It’s more than a common cold when the state coughs up billions of buckets in red ink. …
Another year, and another census update showing the Bay Area’s population has dropped. But the newest population estimates for July 1, 2023, released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau, …
California’s progress toward making the state friendlier for house hunters comes in baby steps. When my trusty spreadsheet looked at homeownership data from the Census Bureau for the states and …
By Anna Edgerton | Bloomberg Money manager Brian Heywood said he left California for the Seattle area more than a decade ago partly to escape taxes. Now, he fears his …
After three straight years of population decline, the California exodus may be slowing. But its impacts — from falling tax revenue to a loss of skilled workers — are still leaving …
By Silvia Marchetti | CNN Moving to a foreign country can be a scary decision. Particularly if it’s a country you’ve never even visited. In 2021, Katie Meyer, a global …