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2025-07-30 Economy

Outmigration Is Killing Illinois, and Democrats Can't Fix It

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-30 08:09|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [161 views ] Top

#1 Fifty+ years of poor employment prospects and extremely high property taxes have not helped the situation.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-30 08:22|| 2025-07-30 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2

Down here in the Mid-South, we used to call them 1/2 Backs. Because they would move to Fla. get hit few times back to back by T-storms, then leave A1A and etc.. Moving 500 to 700 miles 1/2 way back to still rural Southern areas.

Now that most of theses areas have gone RED, where are they moving?

BTW: Seeing a bumper sticker around here, reading.

"How can a
Christian
Vote Democrat"

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-30 08:46|| 2025-07-30 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't vote demoncrat at your new place. Illinois is fucked for a reason.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-07-30 11:29|| 2025-07-30 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sorry but, here in coastal southern California, I still don't see any sign of it. We still have way too many rats in the cage. Traffic is a nightmare, massive apartment complexes are popping up all over the place and home prices are astronomical. I can't imagine who is buying or renting or whatever they're doing. I don't know where or how they make that kind of money but they must be making it somehow. Gasoline is upwards of $5 a gallon. Taxes are ridiculous and the roads are full of pot holes. Hobos are everywhere. Get out!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-07-30 12:37|| 2025-07-30 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Traffic is a nightmare, massive apartment complexes are popping up all over the place and home prices are astronomical.

Happening North of Atlanta as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-30 15:18|| 2025-07-30 15:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Sometimes in the evening after say 9 o'clock, the traffic on 395 behind my house on a hill in NW Nevada, finally drops from 5 or six cars a minute to sometimes less than one every few minutes. You really need to move Abu, the Golden State is not going to get better anytime soon.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-07-30 16:10|| 2025-07-30 16:10|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Driving thru on my annual way to Kingsbury Grade Sunday AM. I'll wave.

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-30 16:52|| 2025-07-30 16:52|| Front Page Top

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