For over 75 years, the In-N-Out Burger chain has been an iconic symbol of California’s culture and lifestyle and a hamburger joint that customers would stand in lines outside the door for the shakes, fries and burgers.

It’s yet another sign of California’s demise that CEO and owner Lynsi Snyder says she is personally moving her family to Tennessee as she establishes a new corporate headquarters in a pro-business state with no state income tax.  She also says rising crime and other social influences no longer make California as appealing.

“Raising a family is not easy here,” Snyder told the “Relatable” podcast. “Doing business is not easy here.”

She recounted how in 2020 and 2021 the state’s COVID restrictions shut down some of its San Francisco stores while other cities created “endless hoops we are having to jump through….maybe we should have just pushed back even harder on some of that stuff and dealt with all of the legal backlash.'”

This is only the latest example of how progressive governance – high minimum wages, soak-the-rich taxation, excessive business regulation, and climate change hysteria – send businesses packing.

Sad that the future once happened in California.