# Californians, Did You Move From Another State or Country? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 7, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622 "2014-10-07T03:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/21 "2014-10-07T18:07:41Z")
Moved to CA from Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/22 "2014-10-07T18:09:08Z")
4th generation. My kids are 5th. But we moved out of state to OR, then to MO, then back. Want me to vote? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/23 "2014-10-07T18:16:20Z")
Moved from Taiwan. But I was a kid so its not like I had a choice. But Iā€™m so glad Iā€™m here, it fits my personality ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/24 "2014-10-07T18:22:30Z")
Native Californian here, and a 3rd generation Sacramentan on my motherā€™s side. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/25 "2014-10-07T18:24:48Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Meh. This state would be far less interesting if both halves didnā€™t consider themselves superior to the other. Which is made all the more effective by the need to literally hold oneā€™s nose while traveling from one side to the other. But, but, butā€¦rivalry! Or, for you Southern Californians, ā€œtheā€ rivalry šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/26 "2014-10-07T18:26:19Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > But, but, butā€¦rivalry! > Or, for you Southern Californians, ā€œtheā€ rivalry šŸ˜ƒ Kudosā€¦I laughed out loud. šŸ™‚ But so long as your half of the state is stuck with ā€œJefferson,ā€ I think we win. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/27 "2014-10-07T18:43:44Z")
Came from the Great State of Ohio! Lived in Los Angeles for nearly 30 years. Now live in Northern California. Itā€™s beautiful, and we love it. Except for all the damned Giants fans of course. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/28 "2014-10-07T18:56:49Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Native Californian here, and a 3rd generation Sacramentan on my motherā€™s side. Yeah, 3rd gen Sackamenna kid myselfā€¦ but around 9-10th gen New Englander (1636, at least) in the same line, so here we is. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/29 "2014-10-07T19:44:10Z")
Great-great granpap was a '49er. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/30 "2014-10-07T19:52:47Z")
I voted as being native Californian, but I did live in Virginia for five years after I got out of the Air Force, then I moved back. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/31 "2014-10-08T00:19:01Z")
> [@Driver8](#): > > Iā€™m not going to vote because I moved _from_ California to Washington in May. But I lived in California for five years and moved there from Georgia. Yeah, you forgot ā€˜None: native Californian here, but I moved away.ā€™ ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/32 "2014-10-08T00:23:41Z")
My parents are both native Californians, but all of us kids were born in Oregon. They moved ā€œbackā€ when I was 15. Iā€™ve had my fill, so my (native CAian) wife and I are moving to Washington at the end of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/33 "2014-10-08T00:32:02Z")
I donā€™t currently live there (If you can count 2 months as living there) but I was a transplant for a while. California is awesome, it has the best of everything. Art, science, education, culture, scenery, etc. Who wouldnā€™t want to move there. Real estate is a bitch though, but there is a reason real estate costs so much, high demand. [http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-shows-increase-in-native-population-3163810.php](http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-shows-increase-in-native-population-3163810.php) According to that only about 53% of people in California are native to the state. The rest are from other states or nations originally. And that 53% is higher than in the past. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/34 "2014-10-08T04:56:22Z")
I moved to California from Montreal, but a few years earlier I moved to Montreal from Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/35 "2014-10-08T05:23:02Z")
My parents moved to California from Mexico shortly before I was born. I have lived elsewhere for quite large stretches of time but my ā€˜permanentā€™ address has always been in California. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/36 "2014-10-08T06:27:50Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I moved to California from Montreal, but a few years earlier I moved to Montreal from Pennsylvania. Montreal: nice city. My company has an office close to McGill, on rue de Bleury. Montreal is in France, no? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/37 "2014-10-08T06:29:13Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > California is awesome, it has the best of everything. Art, science, education, culture, scenery, etc. Add this to that list: the weather! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/38 "2014-10-08T06:32:42Z")
> [@Driver8](#): > > Iā€™m not going to vote because I moved _from_ California to Washington in May. But I lived in California for five years and moved there from Georgia. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Yeah, you forgot ā€˜None: native Californian here, but I moved away.ā€™ Yeah, but Iā€™m looking for those who currently live in California. If you donā€™t, then donā€™t vote ā€“ just like **Driver8** (hopefully) didnā€™t. And, still no soup for him! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/39 "2014-10-08T06:34:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I voted as being native Californian, but I did live in Virginia for five years after I got out of the Air Force, then I moved back. Close enough, **Rick**. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622/40 "2014-10-08T06:35:30Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Great-great granpap was a '49er. Yeah, but did he strike gold??? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/californians-did-you-move-from-another-state-or-country/700622.md?page=3)