It’s not news that California residents are escaping the worsened crime, traffic, housing prices and general crowdiness, but a landlord bringing his tenants along to a new state gets attention.

The unusual circumstance made the front page of the San Jose Mercury News on Friday:

A few decades back, San Jose was a rather ordinary city, to be kind, and certainly not unaffordable. But now California has upward to nearly 40 million residents because of population growth mostly on the leftward coastal edge. And according to 2015 estimates, 27 percent of state residents (10.7 million) are foreign born. So as immigrants move in, Americans move out.

All this diversity does not come cheap: the cost of living has shot up. Housing in particular has gone stratospheric.

The KTVU report also headlined the diminished safety along with the dollar cost of California living: