‘One-third of Bay Area residents were polled as hoping to leave the area soon’
Lets hope they were thinking in-state and not out.
People have threatened to leave CA for the last 40 years. Enough did leave to turn CO, OR and WA into liberal sewers, but still there are millions and millions in CA just sticking there taking the slow beating.
I miss the weather and all the things to do.
But I fled due to these very problems. I really didn’t appreciate being punished for being successful. Then being punished more as I got more successful.
California is headed to be the Venezuela of the USA. They have Puerto Rico as a good example.
Coddle the takers and ostracize the makers. That works every time.
I dunno.
Venezuela sits on more oil than Saudi Arabia and has amazing farm land.
And they are starving in the dark.
And progressives/the left destroyed it.
I was once “sentenced” to California. I married a great girl and we made our escape thirty years ago. It was a close call. Now her family, who always made fun of us Okies, have all fled, too; some of them here to Okieland.
Oldplayer
Not as long as California is run by DemocRats who invite in millions of illegal aliens and make Californians pay for them.
Remember the rich Beach culture of the TV show Baywatch..?
If you throw a frisbee or a football on LA County beaches you are fined $1,000, not $100.
$1,000.
KY Jelly! Yep! That’s the cause of the financial troubles in Californificatia. If they would quit spending such large amounts of welfare money for KY jelly they could “smooth over” the roads. Excuse the pun.
I personally think that they should inject the jelly in bore-holes all along the state borders connecting to the main continent and hopefully the whole damn state will “slip” and “slide” into the “hole” in the ocean.
I lived in CA for 10 years. I am glad I got out. California is way overrated although this is from someone who grew up in the NE Corridor who enjoys bad weather. The only thing I miss about being on the Left Coast was the access to NV, AZ and Utah.
California has become Brazil. A multiethnic/racial mess with a white overclass lording over them.
Where does all the money go?
After years of drought, California has not built a single new reservoir. Instead, scarce fresh aqueduct water is still being diverted to sea. Thousands of rural central California homes, in Dust Bowl fashion, have been abandoned due to a sinking aquifer and dry wells.
This is squarely on Governor Moonbeam and the state government.
One in three American welfare recipients resides in California. Almost a quarter of the state population lives below or near the poverty line. Yet the state's gas and electricity prices are among the nation's highest.
One of the richest most beautiful states in The Union and they - state government - are driving it into bankruptcy.
One in four state residents was not born in the U.S. Current state-funded pension programs are not sustainable.
When California comes to the feds and asks for a bailout, we should say NO, HELL NO!
And yet somehow California’s economy has been growing faster than the rest of they country. In the last few years it’s gone from equivalent to 8th in the world (if it was a country) to 6th. And real estate, both sale prices and rents have gone up with it. Don’t ask me how, with all the crap the Democrats have done to us we should be in a depression.
I still believe that the Mexican really means “Reconquista.” It is only a matter of time until the Stars and Stripes is taken down and the Mexican flag is raised over California’s public buildings.
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The real tragedy in this story isn’t about kalifornia. They’re merely reaping what they’ve sown. The real tragedy is that kalifornians flee that sewer and migrate to civilization, then turn their new homes into mirrors of the dump they left.
I left CA ten years ago and I have never looked back.
Its expensive, the regulations are oppressive and the traffic jams and crime are out of this world.
I wouldn’t live there if you paid me to.
The author forgot that MILLIONS are spent every week on the California Lottery, and it has been in place since about 1986.
I have never seen any type of accounting that shows where all the ‘money for schools’ has gone.
That money needs to be accounted for.
Gray Davis was impeached-—partially because HE raided the ROADS fund 3 times in California and put the money into the General Fund & that fund keeps paying for illegals, and other boondoggles.
The roads would be in decent repair if those years hadn’t been dormant with repairs, IMO.
They ate all the golden eggs now attack an emaciated goose with their forks and knives.