What makes CA and NYC politics better? A place where you struggle to house and educate your family on a six figure salary seems to be sorely lacking. To me it

What makes CA and NYC politics better? A place where you struggle to house and educate your family on a six figure salary seems to be sorely lacking. To me it seems like we are doing terrible where it matters; - cost of living is terrible due to unwise regulation (housing, taxes for ineffective measures etc) - the vast amount of poor that live on our streets do not tell anything good about our safety net - peoples capability to engage with people of different opinions is dystopic, leading to social isolation - the education system has in the last 40 years gone from one of the best to one of the worst