What It's Like Living In Leftist California

And they are in very red exurban and small city to rural places like where I live .

 

I live in another California, Upstate Ca. It’s the Shasta Cascade wonderland region by tourist designation. Things are affordable and very nice here. Very conservative too. Only about 550,000 people live in the 8 county region.
https://www.upstateca.com/attractions

 

Not adjusted for cost of living…

 

That’s the problem. Depending where in Ca one lives one million dollars buys very different houses. In some coastal urban areas it won’t buy the median house for a city or county. In other areas it will buy you a 4,000 square ft 5 br 3.5ba home with an office 3 car garage with a pool and landscaped 1/3 acre lot. 25% of all California homes are worth 1,000,000 and only 15% of residents can afford one. Thus the exodus. Where I live 1m buys the home I described above. Here 3% of housing is like that and 6% can afford one. Most here buy below the max we can afford so we can survive economic downturns. Also we do not want a glut of such houses available here that Bay Area liberals could easily snap up with money to spare from what cost them a million there and try to turn us purple.

 

China has a robust economy and the 2nd biggest in the world and yet nearly a billion of its population lives in or near abject poverty.

 

I give my opinion whether a secular progressive asks for it or not.

 

California is about the best you could possibly hope for in one geographic location...truly incredible everything...but then the government types came in with their need to control every damn thing in everybody's life and they f****** it all up.

California needs to get rid of most of the state government and all of its absurd taxes and regulations and give control back to the people who made this state the greatest place on Earth. Declare California a free economic zone for a free people and watch all the racism and division disappear as black and white and brown will all prosper. Allow the creativity of 40M people come to the surface and once again lead the way to economic innovation and abundance for all.

It's time to get rid of these autocratic bullies that want nothing more than power to soothe their damaged souls. Enough with these weaklings! Allow the true heroes [individuals] to lead...and be done with the corrupt degenerate *******s!

 

And, not the highest, even factoring out the looter capital.

 

It's not just the size of the population, it's the distribution of the population.

That has indeed made the problem even worse. However, one does not preclude the other.

I hold out more hope. Various factions of humanity will take longer than others, but I see that humanity goes through the same stages of development as do individual humans. Self-awareness is, from an evolutionary standpoint, useless, hence it's not a stage that most humans ever reach. Those that do are usually past their prime (from a biological standpoint), have an interest in improving their own internal lives, and have the resources to do more than merely focus on subsistence.That's a relatively new thing in individual human development and still only covers a fraction of the world population. For all of humanity to achieve it, and at earlier stages in life, may take another 10,000 years, but I think it will be sooner. To get to the point that a majority of humanity can and will achieve self-actualization will likely take another age. Beyond that? Who knows. Meanwhile the political class feeds, as always, upon the gullible and the worshipful. My hope is that eventually humanity see political authority for what it is: an imaginative fiction based upon faith and not unlike a religion.

 

There is no one-party rule in California or in another state for that matter. Second, yes California is unique, but have not heard any complaints that you are alleging here from the people I know who live in California The last Republican Governor was Arnold Swartzinneger from 2003 to 2011. But this has more to do with the GOP party in California than anything else and most people don't go around thinking about politics 24/7/365.

People move to states based on a variety of factors. I take it you have not been to Angel Island? So, yes, people come to California do come to live there and people leave for jobs, family, retirement, and so forth. But that can be with any other state.

 

Thats typically what people who out sources say

 

Plus the third highest income inequality in the nation! A progressive paradise!

 

The sheer condescending arrogance and smug attitude of Ca.’s secular progressive urban elites knows no bounds here. It is truly sad. Those people have totally ruined what used to be the best state in the union and turned it into the worst. One where the above nature as described of them makes them so utterly despised and hated by those of us living in outlying more rural inclined areas.

 

California has 1/8 of America’s population, yet we have 1/3 of all Americans on welfare and almost 1/2 of Americans who are homeless.

 

Does the poverty line take into account variances in local living expenses? What it costs for me to live like a king in my little town would barely afford me a studio apt and ramen noodles 100 miles away in Seattle, for example. What's the average cost of housing in those states the graph says are 'impoverished'?

 

Well, every state has it’s smelly armpit. Ours is our eastern border metropolitan area.

 

Coastal urban California is the looter capital of America.

 

It’s like that here in California as well. The Bay Area is outrageously expensive while 100 plus miles to the north and east is much more affordable.

 

Why do you post without saying anything.

The topic is your complaint about CA being the poorest State in the nation, and according to your measure Florida is the 2nd poorest. You claim CA is poor because of their policies, so same must be true in Florida. What else do you have to say?

 

This is so much like California, school enrollment goes down while spending went up. Where did the money go?

Students Trapped in California’s Failing Public Schools Deserve a Way Out

Under California’s public school funding, per pupil spending is actually $23,723

By Katy Grimes, March 20, 2023 8:41 am

During the pandemic, funding for California’s K-12 schools and community colleges spiked from $79.3 billion in 2019-20 to $110.4 billion in 2021-22 — a 39% increase. Also during the pandemic, California public school enrollment dropped by more than a quarter of a million students. For the first time in 20 years, public school enrollment in the state is below 6 million, says education scholar Lance Izumi.

https://californiaglobe.com/article...as-failing-public-schools-deserve-an-way-out/

 

Do you really believe that this state could get this screwed up without their being one party rule? When the ideologues take power, only the rhetoric matters. If the cities turn into filthy homeless encampments, no biggie. People can't afford housing, who cares, because the government workers are doing just fine [and so are the corporations who pay them off while supporting their mindless politics AND as long as they leave the corporations alone to do what they wish]. This is a fascist system, corrupt government and corporations doing their thing [with the fix in].

 

Considering it's been 2500+ years since the historical Buddha attempted to show, The Way, it's not looking good. The main issue is groups and how this dynamic destroys individual initiative and agency.

From what I can ascertain, people are weak for two main reasons...first is the desire to get something for nothing [which politicians exploit to the max], and second is that people seem to need the group and what it represents more than they need their individual autonomy, and this does not portend a bright future.

 

I live in California and much of it is as bad as described in posts on this thread. The greater Idaho portion is pretty good though.

 

You know, I am going to put my Texas Hat on here.

From a Texas point of view, there are only three types of people who live in California: fruits, nuts, or honies. So the $64 question for you is which one are you?

I will now leave you to contemplate which of those three choices you fall into and wait for your hypothetical response.

 

I don't think so. Yes, we all laugh at the jokes about California or the famous line when from movies such as Full Metal Jacket, or An Officer and a Gentleman, and so forth. I don't need to go into them for you, do I?