The high cost of living in Los Angeles, California, and better job prospects elsewhere appear to be dissuading illegal immigrants from choosing to live in the city, the New York Times reported.

Illegal immigrants are leaving Los Angeles for places where housing is cheaper and jobs are more readily available, such as California’s Central Valley, Washington and Nevada, the NYT reported. It takes officials in Texas more than a week to fill a bus with migrants who want to go to Los Angeles.

Texas officials only bussed around 500 illegal immigrants to Los Angeles in the past three months, according to ABC7.