“California’s leadership won’t be happy until it becomes one border to border slum.”
I think you’re sadly mistaken DO! There are enough affluent sub areas in the Bay Area to keep that from ever happening. As for the “outward migration,” bring it on, the Mexicans will leave when there are fewer jobs and they can’t get housing. They don’t have the education or skills for high-tech, and agriculture here is automating at a very rapid rate. The “homeless problem,” isn’t with our immigrant population, it’s with the White $hit that moved here from the East Coast. We have a security problem on commercial property we own in Napa, and I can tell you the people we have the cops remove, are not Hispanics! We only wished that the stock market had been as good to us as has California real estate. I know it’s wishful thinking, but I’d like to see a population level here like it was in the 1950’s and 60’s when I was growing up. It was paradise!
Who is leaving? Immigrants?
No it’s the middle class.
What you will wind up with is vast areas of slum, while there will still be islands of the affluent.
In Los Angeles the homeless are just mushrooming. They’ve spread out across the city, and now there are encampments even in more upscale communities. There they scurry around the area during the day, only to return at night to pilfer what isn’t glued down.
I know of an area that was quite upscale, and now they are experiencing thefts at night, and even bold incursions during the daylight hours. It is bad.
The illegal-immigrant type populace is expanding through formerly decent White middle class areas. More bars on windows and gangs in former safe decent neighborhoods. I can’t even travel to certain areas after sunset.
Blacks are moving out of their traditional areas to places like Adelanto and Victorville. I suspect other areas are feeling this type of movement.
These used to be area you could move to, to avoid inner city crime. Now these areas are also afflicted with inner city problems.