[afraidfortherepublic]

Fascinating article. Read the whole thing, whether you live in CA, visit there, or are thinking about moving there. VDH's observations pretty much mesh with mine, as a native Californian "ex-pat" who only goes back for reunions and to settle estates.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

CONSIDER A DAILY CHANGE JAR TO OPERATE FR

Click The Pic

You won't even miss the 25 or 50 cents, but at the end of the month
you will have at least $5 to donate so FR can operate smoothly,
or you will moan and groan and go into withdrawal
when it is down, because of broken parts,
or over loaded servers during crisis events.

[Sivad]

Just wondering how many more times this Victor Davis
Hanson article is going to be posted.

[gaijin]

VDH is a gem, his basic story is Calif is really TWO states, a poor coastal interior of little opportunity or enforcement of code/law/standards (cuz it doesn’t pay to even try) vs. a glittering coastal strip of opulence and unrealistic ideology, where people finance measures they’ll never have to live by.

In a nutshell:

Jose in dilapidated Fresno vs. Zuckerberg in his compound in glitsy Palo Alto.

VDH’s images are detailed and depressing.

AND ACCURATE.

[Sivad]

Just wondering how many more times this Victor Davis
Hanson article is going to be posted.

[vooch]

CALexit 2018

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I've lived in California since my dad moved here in the early '70s to work for Bechtel. I was around 4 at the time. I grew up in Silicon Valley back when silicon-based hardware technology businesses were actually a thing here. I went to college in southern California and moved back north for the technology jobs - if you're in software, this is the place to be.

But this is not the California I grew up in. It stopped being "Reagan Country" in the '90s, as illegals from Mexico flooded the state and turned it into Liberal Democrat country. I'm just saving my money, watching my over-priced house appreciate in value, until I can take my family and move to a sane state with some tech jobs - probably Texas.

[jazminerose]

We fled SoCal in 2015 for E Tennessee. Best thing we ever did. We took our incomes with us.

The article nails it.

[nathanbedford]

Devastating, infuriating, compelling.

[sheana]

I too gre up in a small rural town and watched the Mexicans move in. Now it is 99% Mexican and looks just like Mexico.