Hmm, what’s wrong with CA..
Too many imports into the state, both foreign and domestic.
We have illegals that have come in in hordes, and are not really prevented from voting, plus the refuse that came in seeking the twacked-out addlepated drug culture in the 1960’s and never left. Those folks came in from the rest of the US and created the mess that is the Bay Area. They stayed and festered and insinuated themselves into academia, media and legal system. That’s were we got the Boxers and Pelosis from (note that both of them are NOT natives!) This bunch has now raised a generation of kids that are a lot like they were.
CA already had a large enough share of leftists, but the counterculture of the 60’s adopting SF as its hometown created a magnet that drained the muck and mire from the rest of the US (with a few exceptions like MA and NY). The permissiveness of Hollywood created a second colony there, along with the nearly-accomplished reconquista of southern CA by illegals.
Even this mess was to some extent sustainable up until the “peace dividend” period of the early 1990s, when the huge defense industry present effectively was removed from California. The tech bubble helped some, but it’s no longer enough. Now it all comes down. Everything that constitutes a profitable major industry in CA is on its way down our out of the state. Defense is more or less gone, except for some remnants. Tech is moving to better business climates elsewhere as quickly as they can manage it. The car plants and steel mills and shipyards that were here are gone. Agriculture is being strangled by the state and Federal government through environmental regulation. Even the film industry is finding other places to do their work.
It’s a shame really. I love my native state, it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth land and climate-wise. I’ll miss it, as I’m leaving in roughly a month’s time.
Six months of residence in California was all I could take in one lifetime.
Yes, it is a beautiful state with an excellent climate, however, the taxes are out of sight, the rents are a scandal and the price of houses out of the solar system.
I’d say the cost of living in California is twice that of my native state of Florida.
Also, massive unemployment, poverty and an unwashed army of bums everywhere.
California today reminds me of a third world country - a small rich upper class and a large poor lower class.
The California dream is a nightmare!