Shrinking every year. Not good. ~40% people under 40 (or ~10% of the population) live with their parents. This is an indirect tax on parents since a majority of this class has no option to evict their kids.

North Korea has a stable population, people flee all the time. The comparison is apt. California's 4-walled fences are much tighter around their residents.

> North Korea has a stable population

How could you possibly know this.

Both can be true.

There could be people fleeing that have lived there for some time, while being supplanted with newcomers. That would have a net zero effect.

I’m not sure why that counts as a useful definition of fleeing within the context of economic conditions.