Posted on 12/10/2024 11:43:56 PM PST by thecodont
Everyone is leaving California.
It’s been written again and again, so frequently since the COVID-19 pandemic, that it MUST be true. Even this publication is guilty of chronicling the state’s population fluctuations. Still, the outflow that occurred in 2020 and 2021 has largely rebounded, and data supports the fact that most of the movement happened within the Golden State itself. Yet politicians, the media and the internet at large continue to bullhorn through it all: California residents can’t leave the state fast enough.
“They seek what California no longer provides them: reasonable housing prices, little crime, uncongested roads, more traditional and more homogenous lifestyles.”
You’re forgiven if you thought that quote was from something written this year: It’s actually a line published 35 years ago in the San Francisco Examiner. The state’s significant boom eras — the Gold Rush, post-World War II, the aerospace rise of the early 1980s — had new residents flooding into the state for decades, but, finally, the expansion stalled. The prosperity had to end somewhere, at least according to the media, which glommed onto the idea that the idyllic, palm tree-studded California dream may be dead.
Nearly 40 years of ‘flight’
The Examiner declared that the “glow” of the Golden State was “dimming, overshone by gridlock, smog and outrageous housing prices.” The article concludes with interviews from residents bound for Oregon, Texas and Washington, who wax about buying twice the house for half the money. It’s deja vu.
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This is delusion.
Anyone who visited SF 25 years ago and today knows it’s gone straight to hell.
Same for several other CA cities.
I can’t seem to get to you
through the U.S. Mail
The numbers wouldn’t look so good on the surface if the state didn’t have a couple million illegal aliens to offset the large numbers of tax-paying citizens fleeing to other states.
In 2007 the state had an estimated 2.8 million illegal aliens but claims there are about 1 million fewer now.
That sounds like creative book-keeping.
We know that since 2007 illegals have still been streaming in so where did the missing millions go?
“The numbers wouldn’t look so good on the surface if the state didn’t have a couple million illegal aliens to offset the large numbers of tax-paying citizens fleeing to other states.”
Exactly right. Also because Ca pays out the highest rate of freebies, leaches from other states are flocking there. The productive are moving out and the unproductive are moving in at about a one to one ratio.
The big problem is because they are the #1 recepeint of federal tax dollars we are all paying for their mistakes. This needs to be corrected. One silver lining is the other States are losing leaches. But we ate still paying for them through Ca.
And you can watch a live cam feed in San Francisco on Skid row..
It hasn’t actually tumbled into the sea yet.
People aren’t obsessed with California failing. They are watching it be destroyed by stupid democrat policies. San Francisco use to be a beautiful city but now it’s sidewalks are covered in human waste and used syringes. The state has been in decline for years. People aren’t obsessed but they are wondering how much more stupidity it can take before it fails. I personally don’t care if it falls into the ocean. The American people should see it as an example of what happens when democrats control everything. California and every democrat run city should be viewed as a cautionary tale for every American. If you want to live in a shit hole elect democrats to run everything.
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Stay out of the CA cities a roadtrip from Muir Woods to Moro Beach has plenty of to see.
I was stationed in Moffet Field back in 1981. SF was beautiful back then. Was back on business in the 90s it was going down hill and early 2000s and gotten worse. Haven’t been back since but a complete shxthole now.
Again, I put forth the question......
Where’s ZORRO when California needs him?
“I was stationed in Moffet Field back in 1981. SF was beautiful back then.”
I was at NAS Alameda in 69’. It was great.
Been here in Frisco burbs for 37 years. Used to live, work, and shop there.
Haven’t so much as visited (even for Xmas shopping) in 5 years.
Only the Democrats are to blame. Nothing and no one else.
I was at Ft. Ord back in the 70s. I would often head up to S.F. and it was beautiful, this was back in the “wear a flower in your hair” days, lots of hippies and friendly girls. I often thought about moving there after I got out of the Army ,now I’m glad I did not.
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