I fully understand this situation you are in, it’s why we left there. You are on a sinking ship and you are helpless to save it no matter how hard you personally try. We had to leave with nothing but the shirt on our backs and start all over again elsewhere to get free of it. Was it an inconvenience and sacrifice? Absolutely, but our very survival depended on it because we saw this coming.
The higher wages and weather were just not worth the real true cost. The hard thing was family, but because we stood strong on our decision, they eventually woke up and decided to also follow suit.
Freedom and peace of mind is worth something too, and I feel for your plight because this peace of mind will never happen in Ca again. But now this same oppression is being imposed on us who did leave to get away from it. And if the other states do not inoculate themselves against the disease, they are destined to contract it too.
And the last thing that should be imposed on the rest of us is their medical bills to try and treat a disease that is completely incurable. I apologize, but at some point the rest of us have no choice but to draw a line with supporting the insanity that will indeed eventually take us all down with it too.
We are old enough to remember when Ca was not like this at all. It WAS a nice place to live...
We have left as well.
Oh for those of you planning your escape, CA will be providing you with an exit tax of around 14% interest if you make more than a half a mil, but I am fairly sure that the half a mil includes the sale of real estate. So you can expect a hefty tax bill attachment included in your right to leave the state.
I am caring for a 90 year old parent who REFUSES to relocate!!! As soon as she passes probably the DAY AFTER I am headed to Idaho, CA. is a sewer a VERY EXPENSIVE sewer!!!!