Conservative stars now REGRET leaving California to follow Joe Rogan to Texas: 'It's no Los Angeles!'

Daily Mail​

5 days ago

More and more conservative stars are beginning to turn on Texas after leaving New York and California.
Joe Rogan was the first big star to make the move, with the podcasting titan fleeing Los Angeles and moving his family into a $14 million mansion in Austin in 2020.
Many of Rogan's comedian pals enthusiastically followed him there - only to deeply regret their decision after arriving.
Tim Dillon was the first to jump ship, with the Thanksgiving star fleeing Austin after just a few months in the Lone Star State.
Dillon had followed Rogan to Austin in 2020, only to make an emergency exit by the end of that year after discovering that the city didn't have enough good restaurants.
'It's a horrible city without a soul,' he told fellow comedian Whitney Cummings when describing his stint in Austin.
'It's not the live music capital of America. It's three heroin addicts busking with guitars. There's zero talent here in any capacity,' he raged.
'There's three restaurants that are good and I've been to all of them twice.'
In another interview, Dillon said that Austin 'can't be compared to New York and Los Angeles.'
He also told the H3 podcast that the city was filled with homeless people, had a 'sewage colored lake,' and that most of the residents would 'get drunk and shoot each other' for fun.
Rogan's longtime friend, comedian and MMA fighter Brendan Schaub, has also come to regret his move to Austin.
The 42-year-old relocated his family to the city earlier this year, but he recently confessed on his Fighter and the Kid podcast that he was 'heartbroken' about leaving Los Angeles and said he misses the city terribly.
'I miss my community and my routine,' he admitted.
He also shared a bleak story about meeting another Los Angeles transplant in Texas who warned him that it might take up to three years for him to acclimate to life in Austin.
'He said, "Texas is great, best decision I've ever made. But you should know that it's no LA. There's no replacing LA",' Schaub recalled.
Comedian Shane Gillis, who is another one of Rogan's pals, has also shared a similar sentiment.
Gillis has repeatedly complained about the homeless situation in Austin, calling the drug-crazed vagrants in town 'screaming runners.'
'Texas f***ing blows,' he told comedian Andrew Schulz while sharing a story about how the power in his Austin home went out for three days due to a bad storm.
'It's hot as f**k. The second we ran out of power the house was 90 degrees and bugs came in immediately. The house was filled with bugs.'
Gillis moved to Austin in 2023 because Texas has no income tax.
He also wanted to be close to Rogan's standup club the Comedy Mothership.
Even celebrities with no connection to Rogan or the comedy scene have voiced regrets about moving to Texas.
Male model Lucky Blue Smith and his influencer wife Nara, who is famous for her trad wife content, left Los Angeles in 2022 to move to Dallas.
However, within just two years the couple announced that they were leaving the city to live in Connecticut so that they could be closer to New York.
In a TikTok video, Nara said that living in Connecticut would allow the couple to own a large house where they could raise their family, while still 'being closer to a bigger city for all the work that we do.'
Earlier this week, transgender conservative influencer Blaire White announced that she was leaving Texas after four years to return to her home state of California.
The 31-year-old fled her Hollywood home in 2021 amid rising homelessness and the state's tyrannical Covid policies to move to Austin, Texas.
Conservative social media star Mike Cernovich, who lives in Orange County, has also come out swinging against Austin
However, she announced this week that she's ready to return to California after spending the last four years in Austin.
Addressing the major life change in a YouTube video, the transgender social media star shared her surprising reason behind the shock relocation.
'I was born there, so it is home for better or for worse,' Chico-born Blaire said.
'There are a lot of problems with California and a lot of people like to write off New York and California and say, "Just let them go overboard, let them burn," and I find that to be a very un-American perspective to hold,' she continued.
'California in my opinion is the most beautiful place in the world. Yes, I said the world,' she added.
'And it's even more of a shame because of that that it's run by demons.'
While Blaire said that Los Angeles has now become 'ghetto and downtrodden,' she explained that she wants to return to the City of Angels to help improve it.
'I want to be someone who's part of the solution. I want to be someone who doesn't run from problems,' she insisted.
'I moved to Texas in the middle of Covid. So I moved to Texas in crisis. The lockdowns weren't ending, so much trauma from that, so much craziness, so it was kind of like an evacuation,' she continued.
The YouTube star said that she's also eyeing a run for political office in the future and is excited to add her voice to California politics as a political commentator.
Conservative social media star Mike Cernovich has also come out swinging against Austin.
The MAGA influencer, who is based in Orange County, recently called the Texas city a 'total dump.'
'Austin was disgusting when I first went there, 2017 or so. I expected culture or whatever, it got so much hype,' he posted on X (formerly Twitter).
'I was looking forward to it. Total dump. There's like two blocks, a dirty river, flat land, and that street where all the drunks go to try kill each other.'
From the early 1800s to the 1960s, New York was the undisputed most populous state in America.
California overtook New York in 1964 and has been the most crowded ever since.
New York dropped back to third place in 1994, when Texas surged past 18.1 million people. Florida later surpassed the Empire State.
'California in my opinion is the most beautiful place in the world. Yes, I said the world,' Blaire said in a YouTube video
A February study from moveBuddha projected that Texas and Florida would be the first and second biggest states, respectively, by 2100, followed by California, Georgia, North Carolina, and New York.
California has been steadily losing hundreds of thousands of citizens since 2019, before posting a moderate gain in 2023.
Many cite high cost of living and poor quality of life as reasons why they left the Golden State.
Data has shown nearly half of the people moving out of California in 2021 were millennials. Many of them headed to Texas counties around major cities such as Houston, Dallas and Austin.
Florida, like Texas, has also had a population boom, with more than 700,000 people moving there in 2022.
The fact that Texas and Florida don't levy income taxes on their citizens is a major pulling factor from California and New York, both of which have top marginal rates over 10 percent.
Still, there are some major drawbacks that could slow these states' march to dominance.
For one, both Texas and Florida have been hit with dramatically more natural disasters in the last 10 years, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.