Posted on 02/14/2022 8:33:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In 2010, as a 5th grader at Sellers Elementary in Glendora, California, part of the curriculum was learning the 50 states and their capitals. As we learned them, I felt that I could remember better if I learned information about each state. I had no clue what I was in for.
During my research, my eyes were opened to how different life, politics, economics, and culture were in various states. As I dug more, my desire to leave the Golden State was planted and began to grow. Now 12 years later, due to a better financial situation, I am finally leaving.
To be fair, California will always have a special place in my heart. I grew up here, my immediate family is here, most of my network is here, and there are countless memories I have experienced here. I can say the climate and weather in California are second to none. The natural beauty of our national parks is truly something to behold.
However, as a Christian who hates abortion with a fiery passion, I cannot bear living in a state where the governor wants to make California an “abortion sanctuary.” The Bible and even other religious texts explain that a sanctuary is a place of holiness. So Gavin Newsom wants to create a “holy place” for incredibly unholy acts to take place. When I saw the news in December, it was the cherry on top for me.
I am not alone. Even for non-Christians, the Golden State has become so horrific that U-Haul literally ran out of trucks for people trying to leave. Even Snopes had to say the claim was true. Tesla, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab, and others are leaving or have already left.
This once flourishing, desirable, incredible destination is now a decaying, repulsive, and horrible place. Why? Abortion policies notwithstanding, here are three reasons why people and companies have gone from California dreamin’ to California leavin.’
1. Taxes
California currently has a 13.3 percent income tax, which leads the nation. Last year, California had the highest state sales tax rate. State legislators proposed a wealth tax and raising the income tax to 16.8% in 2020.
For some inexplicable reason, California’s Democrat politicians believe that when items like cigarettes and flavored nicotine products are highly taxed, people are deterred from buying them. Yet they simultaneously believe that when high taxes are applied on income and businesses, individuals and corporations will be excited, not deterred, to live and do business in California.
While Californians pay an insane amount of taxes, streets are littered with obscene amounts of garbage, open needles, potholes, and other things. Sidewalks and walkways are broken and some are totally unusable. Law-abiding citizens feel unsafe just going about their day.
As political firebrand Ben Shapiro shared, “It’s one thing to pay exorbitant taxes. It’s another thing to pay exorbitant taxes and watch your city degrade into a hell hole.”
2. Homelessness
In 2019, near the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a homeless man went up to a random woman and poured a bucket of “hot diarrhea” on her. Recently, 24-year-old UCLA student Brianna Kupfer was killed during a random attack at her job by a homeless man and career criminal, Shawn Laval Smith. Around the same time, homeless man Kerry Bells randomly attacked nurse Sandra Shells as she was waiting for the bus and she later died from her injuries. These stories are a nutshell of the homelessness issue in California.
Growing up, I remember seeing homeless individuals, but it used to just be relegated to places like Skid Row in Los Angeles. This is no longer the case. Even “nice areas” like the Hollywood Walk of Fame have homeless people sleeping and living on the sidewalks. Underpasses, street corners, in front of people’s residences — the homelessness issue can be found all over California.
One day, I was on a date and we had spent an incredible day together and we started to walk home. We came across a transient about half a mile from our dorms. He was screaming and completely out of his mind. But if we crossed the street, we would have to literally step over multiple homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk. I told her to hold my arm as we passed him. He simply stared at us as we passed and we had no further issues.
Another time, I was working at a grocery store when a family came in and told me that there was a fully naked woman sitting outside the store. We called the police who took 30 minutes to arrive and only talked to her.
In 2011, the homeless population of Los Angeles was estimated to be between 40,000 and 50,000. In less than a decade, the homeless population in Los Angeles County grew to about 70,000. The homeless situation has been absolutely out of control and will only worsen.
3. Quality of life/poor policy-making
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk did an interview with The Babylon Bee. Early on, he talked about how California used to be a “land of opportunity” and now it is a place of “overregulation, overlitigation, and overtaxation.” This is very true.
California’s unscientific COVID policies caused places like restaurants, barbershops, and hair salons to be shut down. Children are made to wear masks, coerced to take the COVID-19 shots, and use unnecessary hybrid learning models when the insurmountable data shows individuals ages 0-17 are incredibly safe from COVID.
In education, while this issue starts in the home, 75 percent of black boys in California are illiterate. Entire grading systems and policies have been changed in the name of equity and racial disparity.
In health, it is legal to be HIV-positive, have unprotected sex, and not disclose it with a sexual partner. However, if you would like to go work out at your favorite gym in Los Angeles, you must show proof of full vaccination.
In conclusion, if you are thinking about moving to California, do not do it. If you are in California and think this state can be saved, you are wrong and you should immediately get out if you can.
I tell my podcast audience all the time: The places people go to are desirable. The places people leave are undesirable. Why would people and businesses be leaving an “awesome” place by the thousands? Why are there more people leaving than people entering? Why do you think people are California Leavin’ instead of California Dreamin’?
Solomon Green is a writer and podcaster. His writings can be found on Thinkspot, Merion West, the Christian Post, and Medium. He hosts the podcast "One More Thing With Solo Green", which can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other sites where podcasts are available. His work mostly focuses on Culture and Politics. To send in your questions, comments, podcast topic suggestions, or business inquiries, you can best reach him at: asksologreen@gmail.com.
Leftards, of course.
In a word, Democrats.
Why?
Simple.
Liberals.
They destroy everything they touch.
They voted for it, they got it.
Now they’re leaving the mess they created and they’re fouling other nests.
You know, I agree with all this, and yet yesterday here in CA I watched the super bowl in a friend’s backyard in 75 degree weather and a beautiful blue sky. I spend about one day a month in Napa drinking excellent wine in the vineyards. I visit the ocean in Carmel and the central coast often, and I love Lake Tahoe. It’s pretty great here. Why cede this beauty to the left? So far at least I choose to stay and fight for CA (my kids aren’t in public school).
Gavin Newsom is the main reason
There is one thing that no state in the US mainland can match California -— THE WEATHER.
As long as the California weather stays the way it is, people will continue to STAY until it becomes Northern Mexico ( and even then, many will continue to stay ).
Why?
Because the people that live there VOTED for ALL of IT.
When will people wake up?
I saw it coming in 1998 when H1b were hired and Americans were fired.
It began in CA and spread to the rest of the country.
Now those H1b are now upper management.
I left in 2004 and never looked back.
I’m a lifelong California native inhabitant. Those 3 things he brings up, those things are works of man which can be changed.
But I see every day what this guy is saying, and agree with it. I’m lookin’ to move out of here as well, but things tie me down like family and ministry and finances. Of course, I can experience bad finances and frustrating/fulfilling ministry in any state of the US, but family — I’m starting to tell myself that we have airplanes for this reason.
Bookmark
In a word? Democrats.
“Why?”
Once upon a time, Democrats were elected.
The End.
I’m a senior citizen that grew up and worked all of my life in California. California was actually a great place to grow up, and work. I attended LAUSD schools from kindergarten through the 12th grade and actually learned something. The variety of things to do and see in California is without equal. And, I should mention, my great-grandmother was born in California, although I don’t know in what city. My grandfather’s affidavit of birth only list his mother’s place of birth as California, no city mentioned, Four years ago I purchased property out-of-state and began moving out of California. I now live outside California full time and have no plans to ever go back. Amazing how a political party can take something great and beautiful and bring it all to ruin. I blame Newsom and his cohorts in the legislature and cities for the demise of a beautiful state. When you leave the state, be sure to turn the lights off, unless the power goes off first.
“I left in 2004 and never looked back.”
I left in 1979 and never looked back.
All moving to do the same in your state. They come with money and time. Then they start a community organization. Maybe for bike lanes or public art. Then, they will complain about lack of affordable housing because they bought up everything but the local economy can’t compete with silicon valley cash. (See Bend Oregon and Sandpoint Idaho.) They are worse then locusts. Locusts eventually leave an area.
After seeing all the crap that went on in the 2020 election, I'm wondering if ANY Democrat in California, has been legitimately elected, in decades. (Seems like the cheating has been going on for a long time.)
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise, and has completely taken over Cali. No one knows what to do about it.
Can we rename the state to New Detroit ?
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