Moved here (SF Bay area) 8 months ago.
1. There’s litter everywhere and no one seems to care enough to stop and pick it up. I’ve seen parents at the local school step right over lunch-time litter on their way to pick up their kids.
2. The school buildings are falling apart while the school board spends money on “diversity assemblies” and pays teachers to be “test coaches” for other teachers
3. In order to claim that schools are improving their test scores, the state has consistently reduced the baseline for passing. “&0% of our kids passed the math exit exams” ... but they still cannot do basic multiplication.
4. Ridiculously high cost of living for no good reason.
5. (ignorant) People think that Southerners are xenophobes and bigots. HA! Just talk to a few Californians and mention you’re from the South, that you homeschool, that you vote Republican, that you support the war, etc.
Like others said before me, California is physically beautiful, but it is being ruined everyday by the slovenly, ignorant, selfish population.
You forgot "immature".
I bought a retirement home here 15 months ago. Indian Wells area of the desert. There are 103 golf courses in the valley, the roadways are lined with palm trees with immaculately maintained flowers and shrubs, everyone keeps their properties in excellent condition. Temperature today is 84 degrees. What’s not to like? Keep your money and any income out of the state..all of our neighbors are conservative by the way. Sunsets over the Santa Rosa Mountains are gorgeous. Happy hour at the Grand Champions on Wed nights is Jazz night. Thursday nights is wine tasting at the local wine shop. I don’t hate it here.
Boy,have you hit the nail on the head.
I lived in the SF bay area for 12 years for work I liked. I lived in the SF city limits for 7 years. By year 8, the experience of living in the bay area actually had me in a mild depression which persisted until I made the decision to forgo the work I liked and leave.
I’ll add to you list.
Market is awash with vomit and piss.
You can’t use the parks you paid for because they have all been taken over by whacked out homeless pukes.
There is a puke panhandler at every off-ramp from the elevated freeways, and tons more puke panhandlers all over downtown.
Once a week, the Critical Mass bicycle Nazis tie up traffic all over downtown San Francisco.
You can’t go a week without seeing a fag’s hairy ass in chaps and likely kissing another like fag.
Pedestrians don’t obey any of the traffic laws.
People turn right from the left lane, stop dead in the middle of streets, and will park anywhere they feel like it.
If you work, you can’t use the beach or Golden Gate on the weekends unless you like slam-dancing in body-to-body crowds.
You can’t park on your own street outside your house without getting a parking ticket.
At least once a month someone parking on the street blocks your driveway.
My commute of 19 miles across the bay bridge usually took 90 minutes, and I was in the NON PEAK commute direction going into the city after work.
One car with flat or out of gas could cause a traffic delay of up to 2 hours on the bay bridge.
Going anywhere is a supreme hassle and parking is worse.
There is nowhere you can work in San Francisco and most of the bay area where you can park for free rather than have to pay monthly parking.
Many many of the people are rude, selfish, opportunistic, vile, crass, arrogant, elitist, conceited and sure they are right about everything and know it all about everything.
Nobody is friendly unless they are drunk.
I could write a book.
You are darn tooting I hate California and I cannot wait to retire and move to Virginia.