The California Book of Exoduses

Golden State Exodus: Companies Leaving California

Golden State Exodus: Companies Leaving California

Updated October 2025 At the California Policy Center, we launched the California Exodus Project to track the people and businesses leaving the state as well as the factors driving the trend: California’s high tax burden, over-regulation that strangles businesses of all sizes, poor public schools performance and an ever-increasing cost of living to name a...

By Sheridan Karras