Depends on where you live in California. I live in very safe small town in Northern California.
I live in LA..so nothing is really safe here. My brother, his wife, and his 2 yr old son moved to Irvine to get away from the craziness but even over there you hear stories about crime..my sister moved her family to Calabasas, gated community, now over there its a different world, can go out at night, you feel safe since its a gated community, the worst thing you have to worry about is a bobcat or coyote
How more years of Federal DEM rule before chaos and lawlessness comes to you?
National Forests used to be the safest places one could be, but now drugs and squatters make it so everyone has to carry in the backcountry. Huge Forest fires have also been launched by Illegals and Homeless in those Forests.