[Diana in Wisconsin]

CA may end up looking like Japan one day in the future. Lots of old folks with no young folks to support them financially or physically.

Gonna be interesting...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

California screamin’.

PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Open-Space-Laws, Skyrocketing-Prices Nanny State PING!

[Regulator]

particularly in the state’s interior, where new affordable housing could most efficiently be built

But uh, that's not where the jobs are.

Mr. Kotkin is right but conveniently forgets to mention the elephant in the room: Mass immigration.

That's why the competition for space is so severe, in addition to the selfish land use laws (when does Los Altos Hills open up and let the unwashed masses in?).

Now that ten million Mexicans (low estimate) have walked in over the last 30 years, which Mr. Kotkin was all for back in 2001, we have to pave paradise to give them breeding space?

How bout just ending mass immigration into the United States? Focus on jobs and housing for the Americans?

[CatOwner]

Our only child (millennial) moved to Texas last year to continue with her job she started two years now. She wasn't forced to leave the state. She chose to. I think the business trip to Texas a few months into her employment convinced her she wanted to move there almost as much as she wanted to get the hell out of California.

Other than her parents, she has very little emotional ties to California or the Bay Area. While it was sad to see her move that far away, she is enjoying her life. Most millennials in the Bay Area don't look all that happy, and that includes those fortunate to find employment.

[blueplum]

California has a below-replacement fertility rate, and now has the lowest birth rate since 2007. This is critical at a time when immigration is dropping and out-migration is again ticking up.

but but but wasn't that the entire goal of 'sustainability'?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

They’ll probably raise taxes on people under 35.

[Pelham]

IIRC Kotkin has long been an open borders advocate.

One factor in SoCal’s high prices has been the flood of people pouring in from across the globe, reducing the amount of available housing and driving prices through the roof.

At the low end you have 20+ illegal aliens crowding into a typical suburban home, wrecking entire neighborhoods. At the high end you have Chinese nationals paying cash for homes that they leave vacant. Caught in the middle are Americans trying to find something that they can afford in a neighborhood that hasn’t turned into a crime ridden 3rd world ghetto.

[Impy]

I was watching some show on “Tiny Houses”, this guy paid over 500 K for an itsy bitsy house in the heart of San Fran, no bedroom, no parking, and only a minifridge.