This article sheds a little light on the apparent exodus from California to Texas, particularly Austin . I have written before that I believe there is net outflow of people from California, New York State, New Jersey and Illinois, and that Austin is getting fairly clogged as a result . I am unsure of just what this might mean. On the one hand, business in California (at least according to the article) does not appear to be suffering much in the aggregate. I have little visibility into specifics for different companies. If companies were fleeing California and the other states like rats jumping from a sinking ship, and all moving to Austin, there would be more salary growth in Austin. So far, and I am a long-term veteran of the IT field here in Austin, I don't see a large amount of growth in average salaries. That tells me that companies moving here and people moving here to get jobs are more or less balancing each other, at least for now. Also, if there we...
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