Migration – California Globe

The Gavin Newsom Effect: More People are Moving from California U-Haul Reports

August 25, 2025 8:00 amAugust 25, 2025 4:05 pm

It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day. Every nationwide report has bad news for California whether it’s CEOs or U-Haul rentals for moves to other states. As we reported in July, California lost 361,623 residents and $20,915,598,000 in income to...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

July 22, 2025 9:12 amJuly 22, 2025 9:13 am

With California Governor Gavin Newsom blatantly denying that California is losing residents and businesses to many other states, and that the state’s outbound migration exceeds inbound migration, it’s time to refresh U-Haul’s January report showing that more Californians rented one-way...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

January 5, 2025 9:10 amJanuary 5, 2025 9:15 am

U-Haul has a new report out and once again – for the fifth year in a row – the once Golden State finished on top of the U-Haul Growth Index – meaning more Californians rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave...

Governor Newsom Goes After Proposed Trump Tariffs While At Site Of New U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing

December 6, 2024 2:45 amDecember 6, 2024 2:46 am

During a speech at the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday in support of a new port of entry, California Governor Gavin Newsom went off on a tangent about President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs with Mexico, denouncing them as a “betrayal.”...

California Dreamin’ becomes California Leavin’

June 10, 2024 2:25 pmJune 10, 2024 3:41 pm

Californians are moving out. Still. “The top states Californians were leaving for – as we’ve become accustomed to, Florida and Texas, North and South Carolina and Tennessee,” the Globe reported in January. “U-Haul reports that Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Colorado and...

U-Haul 2023 Reports California Beats Every State for Residents Moving Out

January 4, 2024 7:35 am

When will California politicians admit that residents are fleeing the Golden State in droves, and have been for a decade? The U-Hauls leaving California in 2023 marked the fourth consecutive year the once Golden State finished on top of the...