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You care, but the sclerotic government(s) and their poltical power blocks that are an absolute time waste to deal with make you realize you can't do shit and yo
by novok 7y ago
You care, but the sclerotic government(s) and their poltical power blocks that are an absolute time waste to deal with make you realize you can't do shit and you ignore it to keep your sanity.
You might say that all government is sclerotic, but the ones in california & SF are extra sclerotic compared to others around the world.
Look at prop 13, $500k 'environmental reviews' for a $5k mural on a wall, how an HSR project is super expensive compared to the rest of the world and will probably fail, how the sf city council denies anything that would make building housing better, a fucking buslane on geary can't get made or a 1.5 mile subway takes 20 years and on and on it goes. And california is an incredibly wealth economy on top of it that can easily afford this stuff compared to other countries.
Also there is a dynamic in places like LA or the bay area, where many newcomers are on visas or green cards, are a significant % of the population and can't vote on issues as a result, skewing the political power base.
- dmix 7y agoThis is why Texas is the fastest growing state. A whole lot of people leaving California.
- xienze 7y agoWho will vote the same way that they did when they lived in California, can’t wait.
- dmode 7y agoCalifornia population has actually gone up by 2 million in the last decade. People leaving California is a myth
- dmix 7y agoCalifornia people leaving california is different the new people coming into California.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoCalifornia exports its poor to Texas, other states, while wealthier people move in https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article136478098.html https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article13647809...
- 01100011 7y agoLove to see numbers on this. At least in the Bay Area, you have long time residents leaving and being replaced by foreign workers. Combine that with natural population growth and I think it shows that the issue is complex. Yes, people are leaving California.
- dmode 7y agoPeople leave every state. How is that news ? The long time propaganda and perception has been that California has had a net population loss. But that is a myth, because domestic folks are being replaced by higher paid foreign workers. Even domestically, the people going out have a median wage of 50k, and those coming in have a median wage of $100k
- freddie_mercury 7y agoTexas isn't the fastest growing state https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/the-10-fastest-growing-states-in-the-us-in-2018?slide=11 https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/the-10-fa... http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/fastest-growing-states/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/fastest-growing-stat... https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/01/31/population-growth-rate-fastest-growing-shrinking-states/38918791/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/01/31/population-g...