16 Reasons Not To Live In California

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

It has been said that “as California goes, so goes the nation”.  That is why it is such a shame what is happening to that once great state.  At one time, California seemed to be the epicenter of the American Dream.  Featuring some of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the entire world, the gorgeous weather and booming economy of the state inspired people from all over the world to move to the state.  But now people are moving out of the state by the millions, because life in California has literally become a nightmare for so many people.

I certainly don’t have anything against the state personally.  My brother and sister were both born there, and I spent a number of my childhood years in stunning northern California.  When I was younger I would sometimes dream of getting a place on the coast eventually, but for reasons I will discuss below I no longer think that would be advisable.

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In fact, if I was living in California today I would be immediately looking for a way to move out of the state unless I specifically felt called to stay.  The following are 16 reasons why you shouldn’t live in California…

#1 The entire California coastline is part of the “Ring of Fire” seismic zone that roughly encircles the Pacific Ocean.  The San Andreas Fault has been described as a “time bomb“, and at some point there will be a catastrophic earthquake that absolutely devastates the entire region.  In fact, a study that was just released says that a “major earthquake” on the San Andreas Fault “is way overdue”

A recently published study reveals new evidence that a major earthquake is way overdue on a 100 mile stretch of the San Andreas Fault from the Antelope Valley to the Tejon Pass and beyond.

Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey released the results of the years-long study warning a major earthquake could strike soon.

#2 Out of all 50 states, the state of California has been ranked as the worst state for business for 12 years in a row

In what is sounding like a broken record, California once again ranked dead last in Chief Executive magazine’s annual Best and Worst States for Business survey of CEOs – as it has all 12 years the survey has been conducted. Texas, meanwhile, earned the top spot for the 12th straight year.

Among the survey’s subcategories, the 513 CEOs from across the nation ranked California 50th in taxation and regulation, 35th in workforce quality and 26th in living environment, which includes cost of living, the education system and state and local attitudes toward business. Notably, California placed worst among the nine states in the Western region in all three categories.

#3 California has the highest state income tax rates in the entire nation.  For many Americans, the difference between what you would have to pay if you lived in California and what you would have to pay if you lived in Texas could literally buy a car every single year.

#4 The state government in Sacramento seems to go a little bit more insane with each passing session.  This time around, they are talking about going to a single-payer healthcare system for the entire state that would cost California taxpayers 40 billion dollars a year

On Friday, State Senator Ricardo Lara introduced legislation that would transition California’s healthcare into a single-payer system. (RELATED: Read what a retired colonel said about the real purpose of Obamacare). The system would be very similar to the healthcare system currently in place in Canada and would cost California taxpayers roughly $40 billion for the first year alone. Given the poor economic climate California has already created for itself, this will no doubt be just one more burden on the people of California, and one step closer towards total bankruptcy.

Micah Weinberg, the president of the Economic Institute at the Bay Area Council, raised concerns over the financial consequences of the proposed legislation. “Where are they going to come up with the $40 billion?” he asked. He went on to suggest that adopting a state level single-payer system is “just not feasible to do as a state.”

#5 The traffic in the major cities just keeps getting worse and worse.  According to USA Today, Los Angeles now has the worst traffic in the entire world, and San Francisco is not far behind.

#6 A lot of money is being made in Silicon Valley these days (at least for now), but poverty is also exploding in the state.  In desperation, homeless people are banding together to create large tent cities all over the state, and the L.A. City Council recently asked Governor Jerry Brown “to declare homelessness a statewide emergency“.

#7 Thanks to unchecked illegal immigration, crime is on the rise in many California cities.  The drug war that has been raging for years in Mexico is increasingly spilling over the border, and many families have moved out of the state for this reason alone.

#8 California is one of the most litigious states in the entire nation.  According to the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, the “lawsuit climate” in California is ranked 47th out of all 50 states.

#9 Every year wildfires and mudslides wreak havoc in the state.  Erosion is particularly bad along the coast, and I have previously written about how some portions of the California coastline are literally falling into the ocean.

#10 California has some of the most ridiculous housing prices in the entire country.  Due to a lack of affordable housing rents have soared to wild extremes in San Francisco, where one poor engineer was actually paying $1,400 a month to live in a closet.

#11 All over the state, key infrastructure is literally falling to pieces.  Governor Jerry Brown recently issued a list of key projects that needed to be done as soon as possible, and the total price tag for that list was 100 billion dollars.  Of course that list didn’t even include the Oroville Dam, and we all saw what happened there.

#12 Radiation from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster continues to cross the ocean and wash up along the California coastline.  The impact of this crisis on the health of those living along the west coast could potentially be felt for generations.

#13 Illegal drug use in the state is on the rise again, and emergency rooms are being flooded by heroin overdose victims.

#14 On top of everything else, it is being reported that Russia is “quietly ‘seeding’ the U.S. shoreline with nuclear ‘mole’ missiles”.  The following comes from retired colonel and former Russian defense ministry spokesman Viktor Baranetz

“What are these mysterious ‘asymmetrical responses’ that our politicians and generals speak about so often? Maybe it’s a myth or a pretty turn of phrase? No! Our asymmetrical response is nuclear warheads that can modify their course and height so that no computer can calculate their trajectory. Or, for example, the Americans are deploying their tanks, airplanes and special forces battalions along the Russian border. And we are quietly ‘seeding’ the U.S. shoreline with nuclear ‘mole’ missiles (they dig themselves in and ‘sleep’ until they are given the command)[…]

“Oh, it seems I’ve said too much. I should hold my tongue.”

Hopefully what Baranetz is claiming is not accurate, because if it is even partly true the implications are absolutely staggering.

#15 North Korea is a major nuclear threat as well.  It is being reported that the North Koreans are developing an ICBM that could potentially reach the west coast of the United States…

Defense officials have warned that North Korea is on the brink of producing an ICBM that could target the United States. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced in January during his New Year’s address that Pyongyang had “entered the final stage of preparations to test-launch” an ICBM that could reach parts of the United States.

#16 Someday a very large earthquake will produce a major tsunami on the west coast.  According to the Los Angeles Times, one study found that a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Cascadia fault could potentially produce a massive tsunami that would “wash away coastal towns”…

If a 9.0 earthquake were to strike along California’s sparsely populated North Coast, it would have a catastrophic ripple effect.

A giant tsunami created by the quake would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. 101 and cause $70 billion in damage over a large swath of the Pacific coast. More than 100 bridges would be lost, power lines toppled and coastal towns isolated. Residents would have as few as 15 minutes notice to flee to higher ground, and as many as 10,000 would perish.

Scientists last year published this grim scenario for a massive rupture along the Cascadia fault system, which runs 700 miles off shore from Northern California to Vancouver Island.

Over the past decade, approximately five million people have moved away from California.

After reading this article, perhaps you have a better understanding why so many people are getting out while they still can.

Once again, I don’t have anything against California or the people that live there.  It is such a beautiful place, and it once held so much promise.

Unfortunately that promise has been shattered, and there is a mass exodus out of the state as families flee the horrific nightmare that California is in the process of becoming.

 

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harry p.
harry p.

The #1 problem with California is Californians.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

There are libertarians (the largest Libertarian Party organization is in California) and some republicans, who are actively working to try and restore freedom in this state. Indeed, the physical state is wonderful while most of the human population leaves a lot to be desired, but as with every state and every country, NOT EVERYONE is as horrible as the MAJORITY that gets their way through the criminal political process. Just another reason why market solutions are always superior to political ones. None of this misery would exist without California government.

PlatoPlubius

Harry puntang,

Fuck you too

Brainlock
Brainlock

Plutonic, This is an old article. Admin promised to reissue old articles to show the soy people how it was in the old days of TBP.

Dutchman
Dutchman

California is a huge liability. It’s only a matter of time until the ‘big one’ hits.

Once water mains break, sewer pipes break, electric lines down, and all those ‘fly over’ ramps collapse – the state will be uninhabitable. Then we’re supposed to bail them out.

Hollywood Rob

California is one of the few states that actually pays. All the rest of your faggy states are a net drain on the economy. Not a one of these stupid reasons are enough to convince a single person to leave CA and all of your good looking daughters are driving here in your old toyota pickup trucks, leaving the ugly ones there for you to look at in your local strip bar.

Stop whining and start fixing your cuntry by getting rid of the mcstains and turtles you send to washington. If you don’t get off your 400 lb ass and do something your kids are going to be begging for rats on the side of the road.

Oh and yes I will own Pelosi. That ones on us and it really is awful.

Dutchman
Dutchman

“California is one of the few states that actually pays.” You gotta be kidding. All the fucking illegal SPIC’s getting welfare, pumping out anchor babies, it’s a shit hole.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Take Federal spending out of California and it’s broke.

That isn’t paying on your own productive merit, it’s consuming Federal funds and paying some of them back.

California Dreaming on such a winters day
California Dreaming on such a winters day

Rod, you are living (in your mind) in the California of the 60’s. The east coast is also on this path BTW, NJ, NY, Philly and Chicago can all (with the exception of the earthquakes) insert their land in the same category.
If you look at statistics of places like Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Oregon, you will notice that a huge part of the influx, and the Real Estate boom in these states is due to California families selling their overpriced stucco houses to Chinese and Silicon valley millionaires, and moving to these states. Drive through any of the aforementioned states and you will see a boom of new housing being built. The first question is: where are these people working, and where are they getting the money? Well, after having actually asked this question of many of the folks that have moved in, and I have interacted with (the orthodontist from Orange County, the retired couple from Thousand Oaks, the plumber from LA etc.) it became very clear. These folks have seen the writing on the wall, have sold out for a large payday, moved to one of these states and bought for CASH a comparable home, and are working PART TIME with FAR more freedom than they EVER had under the Mao-ist regime in Sacramento. And, they are close enough – and more importantly – have the TIME to be able to drive / fly back to the coast for a weekend or week (or more) to enjoy the coast, without ANY of the burden.
Even many stars, who can AFFORD to live in California, are LIVING in these other states. They simply commute to LA or SanFran for a gig, then come back to their home in sanity country. Why would someone, even with millions want to be the target for liberal witch hunts against “the rich”. No, they simply rent property there, and leave once they are done with work. 1 hour flight by Gulfstream.
California is still a beautiful place, but is no longer a land of opportunity because the elite pols have ruined the lifeblood of the place. Until they have a seismic event (pun intended) that shakes that place back to sobreity, the exodus will continue. The daughters I have interacted with are driving their Toyota’s OUT as quickly as they can so they can have a LIFE, and not just a brutal cubicle existence to feed the beast.

James the Wanderer

There are worse challenges from all these fleeing Californians moving east – they are placing huge strains on various infrastructure. Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, many western states are having HUGE water challenges – there just won’t be enough water to go around. Utah is largely dependent on winter snowmelt for water – and even with lots of snow, the reservoirs are not big enough to support large additional populations. The Californians come, and use water just like everyone else to bathe, drink, sewer flush, you name it – but the ecosystems (snowmelt and reservoirs) are not increasing to match the influx.
Then, if / when problems develop, there is no solution – the Californians think we should just put up with them. This will not end well for anyone. STAY in California – the rest of us cannot support you with our ecosystems!

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare

I had to leave Colorado, having lived there since 1961. The huge influx drove the cost of living through the roof and the traffic is intolerable. All the development of once pristine rural areas is also sickening. Used to be able to find solitude in the mountains, now it’s just hoards of non-natives crawling all over the place.

Tony
Tony

Don’t forget about Diane Feinstein (since 1992), Maxipad Waters (since 1991), Barbara Lee (since 1998) and governor Moonbeam

BTW, Nancy Peelousy has been there since 1987… communists all!

Ricky Collins abused child
Ricky Collins abused child

cALIFORNIA DOESN’T WAER THE TITLE “LAND OF fRUITS AND nUTS” FOR NOTHING.

Carl
Carl

You’re a fucking queef.

BB

California is still a functional state for now but the future promises third world shit hole.The WHITE liberals have almost complete control of the government’s ,both state and big city.N ow they are going through displacement.Soon it will Mexican liberals Progressives Controlling California . That’s when the break down will occur.The voting population will be of majority mexicana. They will vote overwhelming for Leftist Progressive economic solutions for their salvation .They will end up Destroying all the remaining economics .Just look at the voting record in Hispanics run countries.Look at the last election in California to see what is coming for the state.

Hollywood Rob

You east coast droolers need to hike up your depends and own some of your faults. Stop blaming everyone else. Only your good efforts can lead to any improvement in the system and while carping about it is certainly better than ignoring it real change comes from real work.

States That Get The Most Federal Money

Start by buying some maple syrup from HSF and then buy all of your food from your local farmers. Don’t support the criminals on wall street. And for gods sake get your ass out of the recliner and start agitating to get rid of every single person in elected office. Talk to your friends if you have any. Convince them that Pelosi, Mcstain, and all the rest of them are criminals and then the evolution can begin. It requires every one of us here to make the change happen. If you don’t do it then no one will do it. If you don’t do it now, when will you do it?

Gayle

I’m thinkin’ you could come up with 16 reasons to not live in any state these days.

Jack Lovett

I believe the geoengineered drought and now the geoengineered rain. When the snowpack melts the dam will go. Huge event. All that so the Chinese can buy up farm land for pennies on the dollar.
All this IMHO

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

My wife and I have made the same comment about the geoengineering. Down here in the Southeast, where the drought remains, we wonder what else they have in store for us courtesy of HAARP and chemtrails.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

My wife an I (both CA natives) left CA 20 years ago. Her mom left 8 years ago, sold her home (for great money), and passed away in Texas, leaving much more inheritance for her kids than if she had stayed. My mom left CA 1 year ago, we sold her home (also for good money) and now she is living in a memory care facility close to us. We are in the process of dealing with her CA taxes and the ridiculous capital gains taxes on the home, but we are happy that she is out of that hole and that this is the last time we will have to give that state another dime of money. It was a really nice state once. The BS “California Dream” is what conned my parents and my wife’s parents into leaving their home states in the 1950s and then the dream slowly evaporated, leaving all of their children too poor to ever be able to live in the neighborhood or town they grew up in (and nearly all of them living in another state). But truly, as CA goes, so goes the rest of the nation and so long as the Deep State and the blind worship of government plagues the vast majority of the American populace, nothing will reverse the downward spiral of our failed American Empire.

BL
BL

I gave Cali a chance, was there less than 24 hours when a earthquake shook me back into reality. Never returned to the golden state again.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Come for the quakes stay for the mudslides. Everybody here is from some shit-hole back east.

Ricky Collins abused child
Ricky Collins abused child

i DIDN’T KNOW mEXICO WAS BACK EAST.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Ricky, you ever hear the expression, “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere”?
California is in the west, excluding the PNW, just about everybody else is east of Cali whether it is south-east or north-east.

Keep fucking around with me and you are going to become an abused adult. Admin already filled the position of shit-head with Dutchman. Village Idiot is BB’s bailiwick. You don’t have much of a chance here, doofus.

BL
BL

EC- Woke up at 6:00am to find a large crack in the ceiling from one end of the bedroom to the other. With my luck the “big one” would hit while I was there.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

I read of an old couple that was buried in their bedroom by a mudslide. There for a while, quakes were more frequent, I would say in the period from ’85 to ’91. Oh, sure, there are countless small tremors but not the things you can feel. The ground seems to have gone dormant.

Col. Troyer said he had been flying over the area and followed Sylmar quake visually as it traveled in a rolling wave along a channel, so to speak. I intend to follow the best strategy possible if a quake hits, that is to not be there. That would be either Northridge or Sylmar.

We are on the fault-line here but there are no big buildings in the AV. It’s all wide open spaces. The building code requires additions to houses to have 3/4″ plywood reinforcement under the stucco. In Lancaster, they put the stucco directly over the screen and felt paper.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

If this author had not graduated with a journalism degree majoring in fake news, he could have listed traffic as the number one reason not to live in Cali. Home prices and rents is next. Poverty would have subheadings such as drug abuse, crime, alcoholism, homelessness…

I paid ~$4500 in taxes on a house valued at $211K. State taxes came in at $100. I’m in that happiness inducing income of $50K per year. I guess if you make more, you pay more and so Cali taxes would be onerous. My brothers in law are independent truckers living in the LA basin. They make several time what I make. I was a fool to go to school. I should have just followed my dad into the trucking job.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m talking about the AV. LA and San Diego prices are horrendous. My daughter and her hubby live here while they save up for a dream house in Santa Clarita. They are looking at $900K.

Ay Chihuahua!

Hershel
Hershel

U could fix Cali debt by turning it into a trophy game park. 50 points for ordinary moonbat and 100 for a celebrity. The Mexicans can be like caddies and tour guides, it might even make it worth the 2 hrs to get through LAX.

catfish
catfish

More of Snyders bullshit. This is the balding prick who told everyone that a devastating event will occur on 23rd September 2015. He shoudl stick his crystal ball up his gearbox.

Slightly crazy
Slightly crazy

Oddly enough though California’s population keeps growing and the economy keeps booming

Cali Sucks
Cali Sucks

Liberal hellhole packed with welfare sucking criminal brown aliens who are completely thankless and should be thrown back across the border. Along with the treasonous demomcrat scum who love licking their brown assholes.

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