[scott says]

Well said, I share your description of the situation.
I lived 12 miles north of SF for over 20 years-—moved away in 2009. The last 5 years I lived there I refused to go to SF—nothing more than a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.
Let California secede from the Union-—we will be better off without them’
The weather and landscape is second to none and there are a lot of Conservatives living in enclaves—great people—but 80% of the state is an open cesspool-—time to cut this cancer from the body and move on.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

When I was a young lad many years back......living in NYC, I dreamed of going to California, the “Beach Boys, the California Girls, Drag Racing Hot Rods, the Beaches,. the mountains, the Wine country, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, America growing and unbridled to a destiny of unending progress, decent living and cutting edge activities in business and life. This gift from God no longer exists, just the swamp cesspool that the Democrat Party has made California today. Bye, bye, Beach Boys, you longer matter in the California of today.

[Mark17]

I lived 12 miles north of SF for over 20 years.

I also lived in the belly of the beast, 45 miles north of SF, for 30 years. I left in 2013. Great weather, but, yes, a cesspool for sure.