Video Adam Carolla: Everyone is leaving LA Adam Carolla joins Sean Hannity for an unfiltered conversation on why he is leaving California on 'Hang Out with Sean Hannity.'
Comedian Adam Carolla says Los Angeles has undergone a dramatic shift, arguing that the city went from a place where residents rarely left to one where they are now willing to move almost anywhere else.
"No one ever left LA," Carolla said on Tuesday's episode of the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. "You would only leave LA if somebody's dad's company's headquarters moved for some reason or another, or you moved to Hawaii and you were just retiring."
"Now, people leave LA, and you go, 'Where are you going?' And they go, ‘Anywhere,'" he added.
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Comedian Adam Carolla sits down with Fox News primetime host Sean Hannity on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. (Hang Out With Sean Hannity/Screengrab)
Carolla said leaving Los Angeles once seemed so unusual that he struggled to understand why anyone would move elsewhere in the country.
"When you're from LA, back in the day, if somebody said, 'We're moving to Tennessee...'" Carolla recalled. "I didn't know where Tennessee was. [I would say], 'What are you doing over there?'"
The comedian described the shift as a sign of broader problems in Los Angeles, arguing that some people are now leaving out of necessity.
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"Because [the reason is] not 'our company is relocating,' or 'I'm retiring, and I'm moving to Hawaii.' It's 'I've just got to get out of here.'"
Carolla has repeatedly criticized California's Democratic leadership for similar reasons, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, as he has discussed the state’s homelessness crisis, wildfires and what he views as the state's broader decline.
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He previously discussed leaving California himself, saying he planned to make the move after his children graduated from high school.
Taylor Penley is an associate editor for Fox News Digital and contributor to FOX Business and Fox Nation who covers media, culture and Flash
