After a 28 year career in the military, my wife, 3 of 5 kids, and I moved back to SoCal. We wanted to be near our families and aging parents/grandparents.
Since then, the older two have finished college and moved here too. We’ve also added two grandkids to the mix.
Nearly everyone who is important to us lives within 30 miles.
This is a real treat after living so far away for so many years.
Now, after 8 years here, we are ready to leave...for so many reasons.
It will be tough, but our survival in old age depends on us living somewhere that the populace and government are not looney.
I don’t blame you.
California has been destroyed by local, state, and federal government actions. The MSM did it’s worst to make that a reality too.
Californian’s haven’t helped. In their defense, there hasn’t been anyone with a loud voice here to sell Conservatism to them since Ronald Reagan.
Think about that. People who are 45 years old in the state, have never seen a big name well known Californian or other national public official pushing real Conservatism. After Reagan’s presidency (probably before), the Republican party wrote off the state.
The issues of the day are not hotly debated during the gubernatorial campaign seasons. There are few debates. The media barely gives the Republican any coverage, and the Democrat is lavished with air-time and moment by moment descriptions lauding him for literally nothing.
Washington big names come here to support the Democrat candidates. Republican big names... crickets!
So here we are, a state that has gone full tilt Left. Other states blame it on the wing-nuts that live here. There’s some validity to that.
Many bases were closed in California. The people that worked at them were no longer living in those communities giving their input as to what solid governance was.
Our nation’s universities, California’s universities have been Leftist dens of iniquity for the last close to 60 years now.
In this void of decent values being presented to the people, what did we expect would happen?
When many of us tried to explain what illegal immigration was doing to the state, folks blamed California for it. California does not establish or enforce immigration law. It’s a federal government mandate.
Border enforcement, inland enforcement, government raids..., it’s all a federal government duty. It’s a duty it shirked since 1990.
Today we have an admitted 5 million illegal alien presence, that I would challenge as being perhaps as high as two to three times that amount.
School figures would make that very clear if it were provided to the public.
Along with this problems is the gang activity that takes place.
You would think there is no gang activity from the local media reports. You don’t hear about gangland killings. What’s up with that?
At any rate, so it goes in California. This state is an amazing place. It has literally been destroyed by the Democrats and with the permission of the Republicans.