California is a conundrum.
I’ve visited many, many times on business and otherwise, but I live about as far away as possible - my closest “different place” is Quebec.
Parts are still nice. SF bay is still beautiful.
But two trends are obvious to a visitor:
First, the signs. Everywhere. “The State of California has determined that soup causes cancer (joke)”. But seriously. Who keeps putting up all these idiotic signs, and why?
Second, the explosion of the underclass. What on earth do the people in Pacific Heights make of this? When I lived in Central Brooklyn in the 1970s it felt like a war zone, normal people were under siege, something had to be done and eventually was (Rudy).If I had a gorgeous Victorian with a nice view of the Bay, getting hassled every time I went to start my car and having to put a vintage NYC 1970s “No radio” sign in the window would make me crazy. How do teh people now running California deal with this?
It seems to me the #1 problem with California are illegals. Yet the bums they keep electing into office keep betraying the people, putting their lives at risk and once again bowing to these criminal foreign invaders. Have you ever seen the most wanted criminals in Los Angeles? I would say probably 95% of them are illegals........
http://www.lapdonline.org/all_most_wanted
Think of the cost in victimization alone not to mention the cost of police man hours and prison costs, it’s absolutely unbelievable to mean that a sc*mbag like Jerry Brown could declare California a sanctuary state after all the crimes, the deaths, the murders and this PUNK is protecting these criminals? Whatever happened to the law “Harboring a criminal”?? The law is blindingly clear.......
“8 U.S. Code 792 - Harboring or concealing persons
Whoever harbors or conceals any person who he knows, or has reasonable grounds to believe or suspect, has committed, or is about to commit, an offense under sections 793 or 794 of this title, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 736; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/792
We took out time, drove across the country and saw the sights.
We got to the bay area and immediately saw the degeneracy. Homeless people in GIANT packs. Needle drop boxes at the Safeway. A carton of orange juice was $6 at the grocery store (in late 1990s money). I was young, my tolerance for such things was much higher too.
We looked at two apartments and I said, "I can't live here".
The whole vibe of the place was just bad. Really, really bad.
My point--it's been a degenerate, disgusting sh*thole for decades. Now it's just a third world degenerate disgusting sh*thole.\ with a bunch of uber nazi SJWs running around telling anyone with a spark of normalcy how they need to get in line with the program(ming).