PS. I have friends out in California that have had enough. They are looking to ‘flee the state.’ Good people, repulican/conservative all the way. Excellent small plot farmers/plantars. Others out there are saying while the decline has been there for a while, it is not noticeable in areas that it was not before.
I got to thinking about these boots on the ground report and how California has been a leading economic engine of the nation and world...California is in collapse. And we really should be keeping an eye on that state. So goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
In Sept. of 2022 it was poised to claim the 4th largest economy in the world...https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/10/24/icymi-california-poised-to-become-worlds-4th-biggest-economy/
Now people cannot leave it fast enough.
So goes California, so goes the rest of the nation....
I have heard that expression since the 1970’s.
And I have seen it happening along that timeline.