It is still a great place to live. It is the big metroplexes that are bad everywhere. The central valley is mostly conservative and still a great palce to raise your kids. Let everyone leave and keep reducing the population and let all the illegals and any growth continue in the welfare run metroplexes becasue they will implode first just as many SOCAL cities are already going bankrupt.
I think a good description of California as having a “Dust Bowl government”.
It makes sense: from Sacramento, never ending torrents of hot air that destroys crops and blows the fertile soil out of state, leaving behind nothing but misery and deprivation.
So now there are “Grapes of Wrath”-like refugees fleeing the place to seek their fortunes elsewhere.
This is just so damned wrong. We should be throwing the miscreants OUT of our golden state rather than leaving it to them.
This is a very accurate article with a huge enigma. The author seems to be against progressivism, yet he is a a transplanted NYC democrat who voted for Brown in the last election. I sense a huge dose of standard liberal hipocracy here. I wonder if he isn’t speaking out both sides of his mouth.
His article is dead on, but the REASON California is like Greece is because of a flood of east coast liberals bringing their socialist utopian dreams to California. 50 years of California colonization by guys like the author are the very reason California is so screwed. He may be against Cap and Trade and some of the more extreme green policies, but he is likely to be quite liberal with everything from save the whales to open borders to EBT for all and college subsidies for illegals.
The author sounds like a pretty good stereotype of the voter base that has destroyed California. He sounds pretty stupid, too.
I mean, how can you know Jerry Brown personally for 35 years, which takes you back to the end of his first terms as governor, and then vote for him for governor in the last election and really think he isn’t still the same old Governor Moonbeam?
Truly, liberals are severely mentally deficient and east coast liberals have been the undoing of the once great state of California, now a one party Democrat oligarchy.
Between 1985-2005, California’s population grew by 10 million people, its Medicaid users grew by 7 million, its tax filers paying income tax grew by 150,000.
There are about 25 of us, hoping to be the only people left here.
I encourage everyone else to leave.
Look into Louisiana, Indiana, Texas and places like Kansas. They are really nice places to live with booming economies.
We loved California where we lived for 35 years. Great friends, great restaurants and great times. Libs have destroyed the state.
While many middle-class families have moved inland, those regions don't have the same allure or amenities as the coast. People might as well move to Nevada or Texas, where housing and everything else is cheaper and there's no income tax.
Absolutely.
If ya don't live on the 25 mile or so wide coastal plain, ya might as well move to Alabama or North Dakota.
To live on the CA coastal plain, ya better have lots of bucks. Otherwise, you'll do much better in places like Tennessee.
While many middle-class families have moved inland, those regions don't have the same allure or amenities as the coast. People might as well move to Nevada or Texas, where housing and everything else is cheaper and there's no income tax.
Absolutely.
If ya don't live on the 25 mile or so wide coastal plain, ya might as well move to Alabama or North Dakota.
To live on the CA coastal plain, ya better have lots of bucks. Otherwise, you'll do much better in places like Tennessee.