The media captured images of illegals celebrating crossing the border wearing Joe Biden t-shirts as they were entering Baja, California. A little more than one year later, Californians are going the other way to avoid the skyrocketing cost of living and out-of-control crime.

According to a CNBC report titled, "The California exodus continues as residents head south of the border," "a rising number of former Californians are migrating out of the country altogether and are instead heading south of the border."

"I would say at least half are coming down from California," Darrell Graham of Baja123 Real Estate Group told the outlet. "Suddenly, the cost of taxes, the crime rates, the politics, all the things that people are unhappy with in California are coming down to Mexico."

A total of more than 360,000 Californians left in 2021 to seek for better life elsewhere, which continued the 30-year-old trend, CNBC observed. Most of them relocate to the states of Arizona, Washington, and Texas. The exact number of Californians who left for Mexico has not been documented, but as of 2020, 800,000 U.S. citizens are living in Mexico, per CNBC.

As of today, as many as 200,000 Californians commute between the Golden State and Mexico every day because "many of them work in California and live just below the border in Baja California due to its proximity."