Posted on 06/09/2025 8:46:23 AM PDT by DFG
California was circling the drain when I left.
Thank God I left California.
I moved to California in the mid 80s for college and stayed there until the early 00s. I’m glad I left when I did.
Well...bye.
I don’t believe the Democrat leaders feel good about themselves from a standpoint of moral superiority. I think they feel good in the way that all Thugs and Bullies feel good about their actions so long as they get away with them.
California is pretty much the same physically except the commercial districts of LA itself. Years of tents, tarps and trash have damaged the districts badly.
The population appears in LA and San Diego to be majority Hispanic. It’s not like the audience of the Carol Burnett show.
The politicians of California see the reality that they face.
I spoke to a man in Monterey Park. He knew the price of gasoline was much less in Arizona and Texas. He said he was tired of the high taxes and green nonsense. He also said that he would leave the state if he didn’t have children there.
I don't miss California at all.
To fix it will require a new industry to care for every inch of land. Where better to locate multidisciplinary startups than California?
13 months I spent in CA was enough. It is by far the worst state I have lived in, even worse than Illinois, which was actually a good state during my time there from 1962-1999. Chicago had amazing restaurants of every ethnic type. I was in Iowa for degree at University and liked Iowa because of friendly people. Washington State was awesome especially where we lived on Oregon border. No income tax in WA and no sales tax in Oregon across the river Columbia. Now living in Florida which has the cheapest cost of living and easy access to cruise ports.
We moved to the north state when I retired. The area is beautiful. It is still California but the people up here are not crazy.
Quite familiar with it. From Philo, to Gazelle, to Little River, to Seiad Valley, I love those small communities.
About the same, 1988-2016, half my adult life, would have left sooner but the housing market was sweet and wanted to stay for that, wanted to stay 4 more years but wifey wanted out.
Good luck getting out when the civil war starts. The highways will be BLOCKED and the fires will consume everything.
Left Cali after graduating from Cal Poly in 78 and never looked back. I took my wife the in 2020 for a brief trip to LA and the familiy home in Santa Ana. So glad I left.
Got the annual mailer to contribute to the volunteer fire dept. up north (Seiad) a while back. The letter indicated that for the first time anyone on the board could remember, the #1 problem was not money. Seems CalTrans and CalFire contractors bought water from the department for a Hwy 96 bridge and decommissioning fire roads. They’re desperate for anyone that can drive a water tender or roll out hose. Few of the kids stick around after high school. There’s no work for the reasons you know about.
This reminds me of a line from the the Paul Newman movie The Verdict, spoken by the plaintiff's husband (the plaintiff is alive but brain dead in the hospital):
"You guys -- you guys are all the same. The doctors at the hospital, you -- it's always what I'm going to do for you. And then you screw up, and it's, "Ah, we did the best that we could, I'm dreadfully sorry." And people like us live with your mistakes the rest of our lives."
I moved away just in the nick of time.
-PJ
I was born and raised in LA in 1958. I met a girl from Utah in 1975 and in 1982 moved to Utah. I’ve never been happier. Eff California. My riot repellant is in my car and handy by my front door.
The majority of Angelinos hate the illegal beans, otherwise why are we only seeing a thousand protestors?
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