Report: California's poorest are coming to Texas as the state gets more and more expensive Maybe they realized that Texas is just as beautiful, too?

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For the past 15 years, Texans have likely noticed a lot more California neighbors moving in next door, and that trend isn't likely to stop following a report from the Sacramento Bee.

The publication dove into U.S. Census Bureau data and the rising cost of living in California. The Sacramento Bee found that California's poorest population are migrating to other states - the most popular of which is Texas.

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More than 155,000 people moved from California to Texas from 2005 through 2015 and the majority of those were near the poverty line. Other popular states that welcomed California's poorest population included neighboring states; in order of highest numbers of migrants, Arizona, Nevada and Oregon.

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Meanwhile, as the poorer population was fleeing, about 17,800 wealthier people, primarily from the East Coast, flocked to the western state.

The Sacramento Bee reports that in total about 2.5 million people living close to the poverty line left California from 2005 to 2015 and only about 1.7 million people along the same income level moved in - meaning a net loss of about 800,000. The majority of those people hold jobs as truck drivers, cooks and cashiers.

Californa's poverty rate is typically classified as the highest in all of America. Click through the gallery above to see just how high California's poverty rate compared to other states in America.