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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.

100% correct. The California where I cast my first vote for Ronald Reagan died in the mid-90s when Grey Davis was elected. Now there are the coastal elites who hire lawyers to fight the CA coastal commission to keep citizens off their beaches and the rest of us who work for a living.

Just spent a couple of weeks there visiting friends and family. They are great people. The state has some wonderful assets. There are other nice people there. It made me crazy and uncomfortable.

The boiling pot of frogs analogy comes to mind. They don’t feel the water boiling them all to death. They have been immersed in it. They may get out or they may die in it.

It is small and large. You go to the drug store to get toiletries while you are traveling. You get a prescription and eight other items. No paper bag. No plastic bags. “This is Santa Cruz, we don’t use bags — you need to bring your own.” Bring my own? I live 700 miles away. What do I do, drop all this shit in the parking lot while opening my car door? ASSHOLES.

You find out that a community has bankrupted itself doing some sabotage to someone over no-growth issues or wasted 300 million on pensions for city workers that have moved away. WHAT STUPIDITY.

There are ten million more instances that can be detailed.

Yeah, yeah, I see the pretty beach. Grow up Californians (not you AnotherUnixGeek) you have let the idiots run the farm.