The same things are happening all across this country.
Is the USA finished?
Is it beyond hope?
If California looked bad enough in the seventies for you to leave, what can you do now?
The US is in worse shape now than California was in the seventies.
Shall we work to save it or leave?
“Shall we work to save it or leave?”
I left California because it did not want to save itself. Hence, I decided the place was not worth my sweat and toil and tears. I will never give up on America, though, and there are a great many who think the same way. If California ever reverses course and wants to save itself, I will be the first to cheer her on (I still have a few family members left there, you know). I do not see anything that suggests California will take such a step; quite the opposite, actually.