Different FReepers may have different circumstances but I personally am going to stay and fight. I’ve lived in California my whole life, darned if I’m going to let some Bay Area moonbats chase me out of my own home. It just feels like cowardice for a healthy young person like me to flee when my Boomer parents are riding it out. Again, different FReepers have different circumstances so I’m not judging those who choose to leave.
We tell the Central Americans to stay and fix their own countries. I don’t see how this is any different. I intend to change California from within or, if I cannot succeed at doing that, to go down with the ship bravely.
It is a little easier to ride it out if one's property taxes have been capped. I've spent some time in the costal LA area recently. Crap shacks with a decent view of the ocean go for $1.5M+. Those houses wouldn't go for much more than $150K in central Illinois. If they have a decent view of something, you might get another $100K in valuation. In California there are highly different property taxes for similar houses in the same neighborhood. Long term owners have considerably less tax bills. The property tax bills for the neighborhood I stayed in had tax bills ranging from $2K to $20K+
There are many people who live in two states throughout the year. They live in one state in the summer and another state in the winter. Many northerners go south to Florida in the winter.
What if Californians lived part of the year in California and part of the year some place else? Or a friend or relative could move to California during the winter renting out the Californian’s house?
Do you give your neighbors a zinger when you have a chance?