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    Default Re: What happened to California? It has the highest poverty rate & worst in education

    Quote Originally Posted by bdreason
    It's a welfare state. All the illegals and homeless move here for the good weather.
    It's more than that. All the Affirmative-Action policies, overpopulation, rampant liberalism, and white Baby Boomers have brought about the state's demise.

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    Default Re: What happened to California? It has the highest poverty rate & worst in education

    Quote Originally Posted by masonanddixon
    It's more than that. All the Affirmative-Action policies, overpopulation, rampant liberalism, and white Baby Boomers have brought about the state's demise.
    If California and Washington switched places California would be heaven on Earth. Its geography (bordering a third world country, coastal, warm) is a blessing and a curse, as is its end of the roadness, economic success and Hollywood (people will go all out to make it there).

    California is not a victim of policy and racial segregation, it is the reality of its position in the USA.

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    Default Re: What happened to California? It has the highest poverty rate & worst in education

    Quote Originally Posted by JtotheIzzo
    If California and Washington switched places California would be heaven on Earth. Its geography (bordering a third world country, coastal, warm) is a blessing and a curse, as is its end of the roadness, economic success and Hollywood (people will go all out to make it there).

    California is not a victim of policy and racial segregation, it is the reality of its position in the USA.
    You have to live there to understand. There's a generation of Baby Boomers who run Los Angeles-people who have inherited fortunes or made a fortune in jobs like real estate, entertainment, and finance and the like making 6-7 figures for what someone in their 20-30s now would make a fraction of with twice the education and qualifications. These people sit atop their spires in their gated communities in Malibu, Calabasas, and Beverly Hills and advocate heavily for affirmative action and the like while sending their own spawn to 20k+ year private schools where they can avoid all the minorities. These Boomers have either held onto their jobs, made jobs obsolete, exported jobs to the 3rd world, or created such competition of jobs that it's simply unrealistic for anyone in their 20s-30s to make a living in Los Angeles, and that include high profile professions like medicine and the law.

    The result is that all the universities are overun by underqualified and incompetent minorities and the rich continue to get rich while the middle class has collapsed.

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    Default Re: What happened to California? It has the highest poverty rate & worst in education

    People always like to talk bad and criticize certain things about California, yet everyone still wants to move here

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    Default Re: What happened to California? It has the highest poverty rate & worst in education

    Quote Originally Posted by falc39
    People always like to talk bad and criticize certain things about California, yet everyone still wants to move here
    yeah for the weather, beaches, and women. Not because the people there are inherently any different from everyone else.

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    Default Re: What happened to California? It has the highest poverty rate & worst in education

    Quote Originally Posted by falc39
    People always like to talk bad and criticize certain things about California, yet everyone still wants to move here
    Yet they are not.






    If California is losing so much Americans every year, then how may you ask, has it's population been increasing almost every year. Simple, births combined with foreigner migration, mostly illegals, that adds 1.25-1.5 persons to California's pop for every American leaving. To rent a moving U-Haul out of California to Texas, Colorado, Arizona, or Washington, it costs 2-3 times more than bringing one in from those states because everyone's leaving, and very few people are coming into California. Of the 21 members in my mom's family that lived in California, only 3 remain. They began their exodus starting in the mid 90s.

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    Default Re: What happened to California? It has the highest poverty rate & worst in education

    Quote Originally Posted by Lakers
    Yet they are not.

    If California is losing so much Americans every year, then how may you ask, has it's population been increasing almost every year. Simple, foreigner migration, mostly illegals, adds 1.25-1.5 persons to California's pop for every American leaving. To rent a moving U-Haul out of California to Texas, Colorado, Arizona, or Washington, it costs 2-3 times more than bringing one in from those states because everyone's leaving, and very few people are coming into California. Of the 21 members in my mom's family that lived in California, only 3 remain. They began their exodus starting in the mid 90s.
    People want to move here, key word, want. Doesn't mean they can. I live in the bay area, where it is considered the highest cost of living in the country. The vast majority of people who move out, move out because it is too expensive. It's an easy bet they would still be here if the cost of living was lower. Sure, there are a lot of illegal immigrants, but there are many talented and ambitious immigrants working in the tech industry too. Despite all the doom and gloomers, California as a state will remain the #1 biggest economy in the USA by far. All the venture capitalist are here despite the horrible government policies. That should tell you a lot.

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