Vette, we have discussed this before. You enjoy a good retirement in one of the prime locations in CA because you bought in decades ago. You are lucky, but you represent a (literally) dying demographic in that state. You say the bad parts are limited, but pretty much anything west and south of the western slope of the sierras is little Mexico now (in other words, a $hit hole). Young people can’t afford what you could afford or currently have, so they (mostly h1b’s) crowd into limited apartments by the dozens and work for tech companies that are essentially the modern versions of sweat shops. Sure, they get all natural food, but they can’t afford a healthy family lifestyle, and I don’t mean lack of play time, I mean a single family home in a nice neighborhood with kids and a parent at home with time to raise them. You see things from your farm. 98% of Californians are stuck in population centers with sidewalks covered in feces.
“You say the bad parts are limited, but pretty much anything west and south of the western slope of the sierras is little Mexico now”
That is an overblown statement, but you are correct about how the coming generations here are going to live. And FWIW, if it weren’t for family and close friends, we would most likely leave for Nevada, where we recently bought a home as an investment. But the problem is that Nevada will become a California in a few years too. I mean you’re right, at my age, not much of what’s happening will materially affect us. But we are still left with what we will leave behind. With the burgeoning RAT-run, RAT-infested population centers, coupled with”one man, one vote,” eventually, all states wills succumb to being a “California.” And the more sparsely populated states (like Nevada) will go more quickly. Already Northern Nevada Counties are disturbed by that fact that now that Clark County (Las Vegas) has more than 50% of the state’s population, they will out vote the rural areas and effectuate their change on everyone. Everyone talks about illegals in California. Las Vegas is fast becoming Mexico City with the influx from Mexico and points south.
And the real shame is that Republicans, and their monied overseers, see America not as a country, but as a “market.” Not a place with borders, language and culture, but a conglomeration of “consumers” whose pockets they are intent upon picking.