I was in Ponca City, Oklahoma last week touring the town. I’ll have several reports on them this week. They do a very interesting weekly economic development newsletter. This week’s edition had an article entitled: Tell Arnold, They Won’t Be Back.
They cited my work on Americans looking for quality of life places to live and raise a family. They reviewed an AP article that one in four Californians were considering moving from the state. The culprit? Only 19% can afford the $465,000 median home price.
A demographer at a conference I was keynoting several months ago mentioned that California runs the risk of becoming the America’s Appalachia in the 21st Century. The reason? Today they have the lowest high school graduation rate in the entire country. High costs and a weak educational system could be a deadly combination that even Arnold can’ fix
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