Posted on 02/16/2023 9:11:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
California used to be the dream destination for Americans from all over the country and people from around the world. Now, for the first time, the state is shrinking.
I’m old enough to remember when the California Dream was just like the American Dream, only better, because it was in California. Glorious beaches, a Mediterranian climate, redwoods, the Pacific Coast Highway, a world-class education system, and room and liberty enough for everyone to find a home there. It was an almost magical kingdom, to coin a phrase.
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There were 28.5 million people in the Land of Sunshine and Opportunity when I arrived there, and 39.5 million when COVID-19 struck from China in 2020. That’s a whopping 39% increase, outstripping the national population increase of 36%. And of course, Californians made up a huge and growing percentage of the American population.
But for the first time since California became a part of the United States, its total population is shrinking.
The headcount actually shrank by more than 500,000 people between April 2020 and July 2022, according to a new report in the Los Angeles Times.
The actual number who fled is larger than that — over 700,000 — since hardy fools from other states and overseas still move in. The numbers moving out have reached such a Biblical exodus, it’s equivalent to someone taking my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs (metro population of about 750,000) and moving everybody somewhere else.
But in California, nobody had to move anybody — they’re moving out all on their own. They’re voting with their feet, with their small businesses, with their paychecks, and with their tax payments.
The question is whether the people and the government will learn from this and change, or whether they’ll double down on the progressive lunacy
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RE: But for the first time since California became a part of the United States, its total population is shrinking.
That can be easily SOLVED, and they’re doing it — WITH NEW IMMIGRANTS ! ( the wrong kind ).
Yet, they’ll magically make up the numbers with illegals just in time for the next census.
they’ll double down on the progressive lunacy
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By taxing residents of other states who once lived in CA.
I lived in California for six months as a young child. That was back in 1960.
It made such a powerful impression on me, I always wanted to go back. When I’d “made it” in life. It would be a reward for all my hard work.
Now, I no longer dream of California.
The majority of the people of California will, of course, decide nothing. The "jungle primary" system, mail in balloting or, as we just saw in the recall petition for LA's Soros prosecutor, invalidation of any democratic measure to stem the power of officials by the officials themselves guarantee California will remain a one-party dictatorship.
Like Chicago and other Dem satrapies, the only room for policy differences is between the left and lunatic left inside the Dem party.
And California's one-party dictatorship is the model for America.
Most of them are easy to see here in TN… they are wearing a mask…. Alone in their cars.
And TN now has rolling blackouts… or else, they say.
They should not be allowed to vote in their new state for 8 years.
People of California
WARNING, WARNING, WARNING!
Don’t come to Florida. It is a hell hole of biblical proportions. No matter what you hear contrary DO NOT believe it. Floridians love guns and the Governor isn’t even woke! You’ll hate it in Florida.
But NY and Massachusetts....
Eleven adult members of my extended family have fled CA. All but one of those vote Republican. As we flee CA, the state gets more blue, and we move to locales where our red votes matter.
I don’t believe it’s shrinking. I think they’re trying to hide exactly how many of Biden’s 4 million illegals moved in.
I left 93. Son was born there and moved N to Humboldt
I sought a better life in California in 1987, just out of the USAF, got a job in the north end of Silicon Valley, Mountain View. Good salary, perfect climate, just an hour to San Francisco to the north and Monterey to the south. Perfect.
However, things change, and by 2000 I saw the way things were going, and the love was gone. Like in the song, “After the Love is Gone”, I left.
The process is approaching critical mass in that people with enough power to affect the situation are less and less divorced from the consequences of poor decisions. The perfect beaches are now tent cities and drug markets and crime has come to the gated communities. Still the progressives double down. If one measure of insanity is pursuing a monomania to the point of self-harm, then political activists really are crazy. That doesn't give much hope for the future.
Don’t even THINK of Arizona, where temperatures reach 122F, rattlesnakes roam the streets, and scorpions are the size of Chihuahuas.
Our Dec./Jan./ Feb. and future utility bills will force more to leave.
Also being forced to ride/drive and buy EV vehicles will chase more people out of California.
Same story here, moved to Calif in 88 lived in San Diego 10 years and San Francisco 20 left in 2019. Great times and good money but very happy to get out.
LOL! AND the rattlesnakes are of the most nasty kind!
Actually, that is a true statement.
Mohave Green.
By 2002, it had turned into such a hell hole we gave it all up and moved to Arizona. Now we have it all again (until our gov hobbit screws us) and San Diego is only a 2 1/2 hr drive away.
My nephew is an avowed Democratic Socialist. He and his family left California about five years ago. They now live in Oregon.
Yeah, the exodus actually makes it easier for the bad decision-makers to stay in power, resulting in their need to exercise actual discipline to make any kind of fundamental changes.
Ergo... that ain’t happening... especially since they seem to actually believe in the Koolaid they drink by the gallon.
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