Not everyone can live with roommates --- folks with growing families for instance. I think the concerns about the poisonous air and electricity scarcity are wa

Not everyone can live with roommates --- folks with growing families for instance. I think the concerns about the poisonous air and electricity scarcity are way overblown. The air is bad because the whole region is on fire, and that's not happened for a long, long time (sure, there are pockets of fire-ravaged regions at any point in the late summer, but it's not this widespread). The really problematic issues are the wacko water usage (growing almonds? really?), the callous disregard of state politicians for folks who do not own homes (and are increasingly facing homelessness or crushing commutes), and the deep fiscal troubles the state finds itself in (because of a seeming inability to control spending and normalize property taxation). Schools (including UCs) are not functioning well for the majority of Californians (they have failed to provide a free/cheap education to state residents, which is the mandate of any state university, and Community Colleges are massively underfunded). CA weather is not the best by a long shot, but most of the rest of the US has terrible weather (way worse than CA at any rate).