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I have lived in California for about 30 years. Yesterday I took my kids to the Barnes and Nobles in San Luis Obispo. The kids section is next to the bathrooms
by stevecalifornia 8y ago
I have lived in California for about 30 years. Yesterday I took my kids to the Barnes and Nobles in San Luis Obispo. The kids section is next to the bathrooms. Inside the bathroom a homeless guy was smoking meth and another was using the sink and paper towels to give himself a bath. On the ride home I noticed that there was literally no less than one homeless guy per block on both sides of the road.
It has not always been like this and it's getting worse.
This is on top of all the other issues California has. Ridiculous housing prices, horrible schools and a wildly business unfriendly environment, etc.
My point is: The governor was working on mandating public companies have female board members instead of the laundry list of catastrophes that are destroying this state. Think about who you vote for this upcoming election in CA.
- beavisthegenius 8y agoYou're a moron.
- dang 8y agoWe've banned this account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- beavisthegenius 8y agoGood.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoCalifornia has about 25% of the nation's homeless population. It's quite bad and there are complex reasons for it. One contributing factor is the lovely California weather that makes it much less of a hardship to "sleep rough" than it is in most parts of the continental US.
- bsaul 8y agoi cab imagine there are much more lovely weather than in SF, yet it’s the city with the largest number of homeless i’ve ever seen ( and i live in europe).
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThe San Francisco Bay Area is the only part of the US with a Mediterranean climate. As I said, there are many factors, weather being just one.
- true_religion 8y agoReally? Our entire continent, and only one city has truly good weather, which is the city just you happen to live in? That sounds like old fashioned vanity.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThe San Francisco Bay Area has more than 100 cities. I don't live there. I have never lived in San Francisco and I moved away from the Bay Area many years ago.
- dragonwriter 8y ago“Good weather” is highly ambiguous. “Mediterranean climate” (while there is some fuzziness at the boundary) is much less so. While the initial claim was slightly overstated in claiming uniqueness, the SFBA is pretty special in that regard.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThis is a more specific statement of what I mean by good weather: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110598
- dragonwriter 8y ago
- friedman23 8y agoGiven how many dysfunctional policies in California are a result of the proposition system I think the people of California only have themselves to blame not the Governor.
- jcmi 8y agoFor example? Truly, I'm curious as to what the dysfunctional policies you're referring to? Absolutely agree the homelessness and housing are ridiculous. That said, California is something like the 5th largest economy in the world, produces a huge chunk of USAs food, has some of the greatest universities in the world and is home to some of the largest and most powerful companies in the history of humanity (not sure how I feel about that one). Not to say there aren't huge issues but it's not exactly a hellscape here.
- Hermitian909 8y agoI'm not the guy you replied to, but the poster child for this has got to be Prop 13[1] which limits the maximum property taxes on property can increase at 1% of the full cash value as last assessed. Nominally, it prevents old/poor people from being priced out of their homes. The owner of a home not reassessed since the 50s now worth millions today may be paying a few hundred a year in real estate tax. Corporations have found a variety of loopholes for themselves here, the simplest involve shell corporations[2] and have allowed large and extremely valuable properties to change hands without reassessment robbing the state in billions in revenue. Even reversal of the policy just for commercial property would produce a massive windfall of much needed capital for the state, to the tune of roughly 8.2-10.2 billion dollars per year[3]. It's honestly one of the worst longstanding pieces of legislation I've ever encountered and one of the big reasons for the massive distortion in the CA housing market. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197... [2] https://financialtransparency.org/how-shell-corporations-undermine-schools-in-california/ https://financialtransparency.org/how-shell-corporations-und... [3] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/550356b8e4b02e0b159ae1c9/t/55bbdb0ce4b00d83ca270269/1438374668173/USC+Report+2015-05+-+Getting+Real+About+Reform.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/550356b8e4b02e0b159ae...
- michaelmrose 8y agoIf its business environment is so wildly unfriendly shouldn't that have solved the housing prices issue as all the jobs and therefore the desire to relocate should have long since faded? I don't agree with the law and yet I don't think any of the problems you listed have simple solutions. For example all the ways imaginable to address ridiculous housing prices would seem to negatively effect those who presently own houses who have basically all the wealth. How do you propose to fix THAT.
- rtx 8y agoFew things lag, these things have a long cycle. I come a state in India which used to be richest 60 years ago then we voted in the communists. Now we rank in the bottom five, after all parties trying to out left each other.
- michaelmrose 8y agoPeople have been saying this about CA at least the last few decades some lag there.
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- prablenha 8y agoThis is virtue-signalling. It's easy to ham-fistedly fix issues that give them publicity while ignoring stuff that needs real work to fix.