California is number one in ....

And extra smelly with the heat. Most people like a change of seasons...

 

I visited a friend in the Hollywood Hills and loved the weather. CA certainly has a lot going for it but unfortunately it has been infested with the irrational politics of the Unicorn farts and Stardust fanatics.

 

Happy to show you pictures of California and maybe you will share photos of your state, New Jersey [must be a bummer for Republicans living in a state where they are a joke]

 

Lovely, now you can have junkies and homeless just walk through your yards to get to beach behind your house.

Only California

 

It's a nice place to visit but a crap life to live there.. The majority of Californians spend and hour on the road to get to work and hour to get home after a nine hour shift, and if there is wreck you might not even get home till 8ish. My brother in law in the bay area knocks down just under a million a year and lives no better than a mine workers does here at 120K, and works FAR less hours and far more leisure time then any white collar worker in that state..

What good is all that weather if all your gonna do is sweat in it or sit at a desk in an air conditioned office and barely have time to eat, shlt, shower and shave and catch a couple hours of ass time with the Wife "IF SHE IS EVEN HOME YET" and kids "That really don't know you" before sneaking in to your bedroom to vape a little just so you can sleep for 5-6 hours before the alarm goes off..

California is great for the mega rich, but for the working slobs, it's struggle every week to make ends meet and hardly worth sunshine that you hardly get to enjoy, my opinion anyway

 

So have they cleared the rats out of LA City Hall yet?

 

I don't expect you to do anything brah I'm just telling you I have, many times, said where I live in the same thread you were contributing too I have a unique perspective of California by growing up there moving away and returning there two months out of the year unlike those barn sour Cali boys that never leave the corral. You be surprised how quickly the shlthole is spreading when its a ten month snapshot, instead of slow daily process of desensitized acceptances..

I love to watch people from big cities out this way, they are so used to captivity they are void of common sense in any other environment, I actually fear for them!

My little brother came to visit me one spring while rabbit was still in season, so I took him out to get a few to fry and as it goes I shot one. So as always, I retrieved my kill by stepping on its head and while pulling its back legs tore its head off! He puked four time one after the decapitation and three more while I pulled the fur off and flung the guts out with a quick snap of the wrist..

We only took one that day I was afraid he would be forever traumatized LMFAO

 

I did, several times! And exactly how would I be an imposter? In fact it's actually a personal attack!

Are you insinuating that I'm deceiving people here to gain something fraudulently even though I have posted several times where I live?

You are dangerously close to

Again I have posted where I live, sorry you missed it and are incapable of using a search utility, but at this point it's becoming a little bit like Stalking and I'm getting a little creeped out about it

 

So does Clint Eastwood.

 

Sure, the liberals like to claim California socialism is working by pointing to the much heralded statistic that “California’s economy is the 6th largest in the world” as calculated by the state’s Department of Finance. Indeed, California’s $2.62 trillion economy is larger than that of France, Canada, Brazil, Russia, and Italy. However, that GDP stat does not factor in California’s cost of living, which is 36.2% higher than the national cost of living. As Carson Bruno writes in Real Clear Markets, “using the cost of living adjusted data from the International Monetary Fund and adjusting California’s GDP data provides a better snapshot of California’s economic standing in the world. Doing so shows that California is actually the 12th largest economy — a drop of 6 spots — and actually puts the state below Mexico.”

Moreover, as Bruno points out, Silicon Valley “accounted for 50% of California’s private industry real GDP growth.” In other words, without a few dozen mega profitable high-tech Silicon Valley firms such as Apple, Google, and Facebook, California’s GDP would be significantly smaller.

However, as economic blogger Richard Rider points out, the aggregate GDP statistic is really not a good indicator of a state’s economic health, especially since one industry appears to be propping up the “6th largest economy” myth. California has over 39 million people, more than any other state, so a far more accurate assessment of its economy, Rider writes, would be per capita GDP as compared to the rest of the country. After adjusting the GDP figures to account for the cost of living (COL), the Golden State ends up with a paltry 37th place ranking within the U.S.A., with a $45,696 per capital GDP. Even rustbelt states, such as Michigan and Ohio, have a higher adjusted per capita GDP. Despite Silicon Valley’s high-tech giants, California barely squeezes past impoverished New Mexico. Rider also reports that when one looks at per capita GDP stats for the rest of the world, California ranks 19th, but those stats don’t factor in the COL data; if they did, California would be even further down the rankings internationally.

One should not also assume that high-tech companies are a permanent feature of California’s economy. Already, the extremely high cost of living in Silicon Valley has, since 2016, caused more Silicon Valley employees to leave the state than it has attracted. With a few high-tech companies having left California for other states such as Virginia, Texas and North Carolina, it’s only a matter of time before this turns into a flood.

But it’s not just Silicon Valley employees fleeing California; it’s productive — and job-creating — citizens from all over the state. As Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox wrote in the Mercury Newslast April, “the largest group of outmigrants tends to be middle-aged people making between $100,000 and $200,000 annually.”

Indeed, California has done everything possible to make it difficult for businesses and employers to produce goods and services. California now has the highest state income tax rate and the highest state sales tax rate in the country. Our gas tax rate is fourth-highest, but if you add in the 10-12 cent “cap and trade” cost per gallon, we have the highest gas tax in the country. Based on 2014 numbers, California’s single-family residence property tax is the eighth highest in the country with the median homeowner property tax bill 93% higher than the average property tax bill for the other 49 states. As for the state’s corporate income tax rate, it is also eighth in the country. And let’s not forget our small business tax, a minimum of $800, even if no profit is earned.

Overall, the Tax Foundation ranks California as fifth worse in overall tax burden, but the state is especially hostile to its high earners who start businesses and create most of the jobs. Indeed, the top 1% pays 50% of all state income taxes. Moreover, the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council ranked California as having the worst anti-business climate in the country; the American Tort Reform Foundation ranks the state as the “worst state judicial hellhole” in the U.S. and the national Chamber of Commerce rates California as having the fourth-worst business climate.

If California is such a prosperous state as liberals claim, why does it have the highest poverty rate in the nation? According to the Census Bureau, the poverty rate is 23.4%, which is 17% higher than second place Nevada. Indeed, while California has 12% of the nation’s population, it is home to 33% of the nation’s TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) welfare recipients, more than the next seven states combined.

What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household...

-> https://spectator.org/adios-california/

 

You should use quotation marks when directly citing this 3 year old article that you have posted before.

 

Tried to but the quotation thingy was malfunctioning.

Probably the device I'm using right now.

Yes the article is written by a former member of the California state legislature and it is 3 years old and things have gotten worse over the past three years in California.

Did you know that 70% of those who became homeless in California during the past 12 months were those couldn't find affordable housing ?

Now there's enough affordable housing in California but not for 40 million people.

And the Democrats in Sacramento still have the welcome mat out at the Mexican border.

 

I'll grant you the complaint about the homeless crisis. Mayor Garcetti is on notice that city streets can not accommodate so many poor people. San Clemente moved a homeless encampment away from North Beach and onto a large city owned lot but the courts may rule that as a human rights violation. It has become a huge problem. Sacramento is sending $ millions to house LA's poor folk; many come from out of state.

 

I like that we have a California. If that's what you want, you can go there, and many people do.
As it is now, 85% of our nation occupies 15% of our country. What's more, they pay a premium to be there. Generally speaking, the more densely populated a place the more it costs to live there. In my opinion, by and large, we have exactly the right 85% of our nation quarantined in that 15% of our country. The right people seem to be leaving for places like Texas and the right people seem to filter into those densely populated corridors. The whole thing seems to be working just fine.

Please, don't write anything that might cause those democratically controlled corridors to metastasize into the balance of our country.

IT'S NOT SO BAD IN CALIFORNIA. GO TO CALIFORNIA. IT'S COMPLETELY RUN BY DEMOCRATS. IT'LL BE NICE. GO TO CALIFORNIA. GO TO CALIFORNIA. When I snap my fingers you will feel like you want to go to California.

 

There is a 50% functional illiteracy rate in California. Half of adults can't read.

 

How can we forget?

https://www.politifact.com/californ...-true-californias-taxes-among-highest-nation/

 

Fun post

 

Like the OP, you are native born with no intention whatsoever of moving out of California. Something of a paradox wouldn't you say?

 

Please, allow me translate. Because your first hand accounts of the decay of California continue, they should be discounted.

 

So it sounds like you don't wan't to discuss the average IQ and literacy in this state.

 

I think that he's already made those points for you. Let him up. There's no point hitting him while he's down.

 

Is that supposed to mean something?

 

It comes down to solutions. Some are surprised that California has a long history of electing Republican governors, for example. Reagan's environmental policies are the same as today's Democrats. Ronny still has the record of raising more taxes than any governor in California. Today's Republican seem to have forgotten what their party used to be in order to fall in step with a criminal/ traitor/ narcissist fool.

 

Carlos, Carlos, Carlos. Are you trying to associate republicans with California? Really? Go with that. Lots of people will buy that. Put all of your efforts into that Carlos.

 

You must forgive the OP 1950/60 surfer who adores the likes of John Wayne/ Charlton Heston/ Sylvester Stallone