One year is way too small of a sample size. Everyone knows that California has been losing residents to other states for nearly two decades. What is often missed in the anti-California rhetoric is that there has consistently been a net inward migration of individuals with $50,000+ household income and at least a college degree. It has been the low-income, uneducated residents leaving the state. I’m guessing Covid was an outlier year and that the trend of highly educated, high income earnings flocking to California continues