“California is a state full of douchebags... What it needs is an enema.”
Aw, wassa matter? You came to California to be an actor and it didn’t work out? The lines were too long at Disneyland?
Here’s an interesting statistic: More FReepers live in California than any other state. Including its founder.
Oh, you stand by your brilliant, not-at-all-rude post? It’s just your opinion? Okay, then please explain how such a collection of losers manages to pay more federal income tax than any other state. (Including you, Texas, so shut it.) You’re welcome.
And yet we still manage to support our enormous welfare rolls, with are dominated not by illegal aliens, not by native Californians, but by American lifelong losers who transplant here from other failed states, yours included. You’re welcome.
Whatever state you live in, California’s economy eats yours alive.
Still disagree with math? Then I’m sure you and the rest of the California haters won’t mind if we turn off the tap.
Yeah. I didn’t think so...
(P.S. Before anyone posts their totally original riposte about the need to wall off California and let Mexico have it, try to remember that only rubes say “Cali.”)
Also a California resident here.
A lot of the banter about CA is unkind, but so be it.
What is true about CA is that it is an unkind place, no longer as much the land of opportunity as most of the rest of the US, and certainly not the place someone without specialized education and skills should consider. Its cost of living consumes its median income to the degree that the ordinary person is better off in South Carolina.
There are some industries that do well here, but most don’t and many have been deliberately driven out. There used to be a great deal of precision machining done here, for instance, and Los Angeles and the South Bay were something of an incubator for German style “Mittelstand” tech companies, but no more.
Lighten up Francis.