“yuk why would anybody want to live there, it is filthy, it is cold in the summer, people let their houses go to hell, it is communist, and it is unbearably expensive”
I don’t know what you think you are describing, because it sure as hell isn’t here in California. The house across the road from me sold ten years ago for $1.6 million and is now on the market for $2.49 million. Drove from here to Salinas and back yesterday and didn’t see: 1) any Communists, 2) no filth, 3) it was 75 degrees and 4) no houses “going to hell.” I guess 1 out of 5, for you isn’t so bad.
You must be blind not to see the communists