Courtesy of Pengyu Cheng.
- In 2021, almost 108,000 people migrated from California to Texas, according to Census data.
- Unaffordable housing, diminishing air quality, and politics have driven some from the Golden State.
- "We felt like we were paying a lot of money to live in a city we weren't enjoying," said one relocator.
Pengyu Cheng had become disillusioned with San Francisco.
The program manager moved to the Bay Area in 2014 after securing a position at the highly sought-after Silicon Valley tech company, Apple.