The problem is that you keep visiting the wrong parts of California. Stay out of So Cal and the Left coast and visit rural northern and eastern California where there a very, very few homeless people, just normal Americans like you would find in Texas, and spectacular scenery.
Nobody want’s to go there. All the tourist all want the beach and Hollywood and these tacky crowded expensive amusement parks. I’m trying to imagine taking a vacation to rude crowds, horrific traffic, armies of homeless, foreigners and millions of illegals that the stooges running the state invite in.
I would guess the phrase “A sucker born everyday” applies.