On Leaving the Golden State

Guest Post by NicklethroweR

Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger
Than moonshine
You’re gonna go I know

-America

The fabled Ventura Highway is all that separates my artist loft from the beach where surfing first came to the United States.  Both my balcony and front patio face the freeway at about eye level and I could easily smack a tennis ball right on to the ever busy 101.  Access to the beach and boardwalk is very important to a Tourist Town such as mine and I can see one underpass from my balcony and another underpass from the patio.  Further up the street are two pedestrian bridges.  Both have been recently remodeled so that people can not use it to kill themselves by leaping down into traffic.  The traffic, just like the spice, must flow and the elites that live here do not like to be inconvenienced as they dart about between Malibu and Santa Barbara.

Another feature of living where I live would have to be the homeless, the insane and the drug addicts that wander this particular neighborhood.  The authorities estimate that there are more than 1100 homeless in and around my part of town but unless you too live in such a neighborhood, it can be hard to imagine so I’ll do my best to explain.  Please humor me while I tell you what that looks like from ground zero.

As I wait for my morning coffee to brew, I can see the more industrious homeless pushing or pulling their junk carts from under the overpass where they spent the night.  During the day, these guys will scoop up anything of value that is not nailed down.  Others that I can see have their signs and will go panhandle where the tourists must exit the freeway.

Once my coffee is brewed, my cat and I go hang out on the patio where I may or may not have to chase someone away that is stealing electricity as for some crazy reason all the homeless have smart phones and other electric gadgets but few means to charge them.  From my patio on the 2nd floor landing, I can look down into the central courtyard and, if early enough in the day, sometimes see people crawling out of the bushes so as to relieve themselves against a wall.

Making this problem worse is the fact that I live around a bunch of retired hippies and there is no one on Earth less capable of doing anything than a hippie.  One thing that many of them have not figured out is that they should lock down their WiFi.  Frankly, the quickest way to attract the kind of person that would steal a cat toy, potted plant, bicycle or everything out of your car is to have a neighbor or two broadcasting free WiFi.  It is like offering Zombies brain pudding.  It makes everything worse.

As for me, I work from home and try to spend as much time as possible during the day outside.  After all, it is the reason I live here as it rarely rains, we have no insects to speak of and it is pretty much 72 degrees each and every day of the year.  Living here and not going to the beach every day would simply be a crime but going to the beach puts me face to face with some people that should, by all accounts, be in an asylum.

The asylum crowd is easy to spot as they tend to wear everything they own even when it is warm outside.  Another sign is how filthy they are.  Now, you might be saying that of course they are filthy because they are homeless but that shouldn’t be the case as there are quite a few charities that gives clothes to the homeless or allows them to use a laundromat for free.  I have a neighbor that plays guitar to entertain the homeless the first Tuesday of every month at a laundromat that serves the homeless and does so for free.  Also, there are free public showers all up and down the beach.

Perhaps this anecdote will help put things in perspective: My daughter is out walking by herself but it is only 8 in the evening so she isn’t all that worried about late night criminal elements.  She told me that she heard a noise and looked to see a bearded filthy barefoot half starved shirtless man running towards her from out of an alley.  My daughter runs marathons and was able to easily outrun this man but she told me that the worse part was that the guy had both of his arms cut off at the elbows.

Luckily for her she had spent 5 years living in a tiny former hotel room right on Sunset and Vine in the center of Hollywood which is the capital of crazy in the United States.  Living and working in the center of Hollywood with no car put her right out with the crazies and made her streetwise and an expert on crazy.  Frankly, any normal person not used to such things might have froze like a deer in the headlights seeing an armless lunatic howling their way towards them but my girl is a pro.  Anyway, the question that both my daughter and I had was why the authorities did not sweep this guy up off of the street.  Clearly he was armless, hungry and out of his mind.

Let us talk about the authorities for a moment.  What exactly are they doing to help?  First, they threw open the borders and created sanctuary cities so that people that do not belong here can not be molested by law enforcement.  Next, they decriminalized camping in public.  People camping in public need something to do to while away the hours so they decriminalized drugs even going so far as to give away free needles.  If that were not enough, they decriminalized theft up to $950 per day.  This way any homeless person can walk into any business and brazenly steal whatever they wish without any fear of being sent to jail.

Finally, they’ve arranged things such that the police will no longer respond to 911 calls pertaining to vandalism or burglary.  You can watch from your bedroom window as a homeless person smashes your car windshield with a rock so as to ransack your car and if you call 911 it will be YOU that is in trouble for tying up their emergency line as someone vandalizing and robbing your car is a non-emergency and not worthy of any kind of response.  Isn’t that wonderful?

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
‘Relax’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!’

The Eagles

 

Having lived in such insanity for 11 years has me wondering if I can ever really leave California behind.  Has it changed me?  After all, the people around me that I’ve spent time with honestly believe in UBI, that men can have babies, trans athletes, open borders, free everything, Communism, drag queen library time and that the Earth will be destroyed in 12 years because AOC says so.  I’ve watched grown adults dress themselves and their children up as vaginas and parade around in our streets.  The worst was being told that I was a “racist” for believing that anyone of any race can achieve their goals if they work hard.  After all, “only a privileged white racist” could express something so outrageous.

 

I’m afraid that the one thing I will be carrying with me out of California is a numbness to human suffering.  I am very worried that I will not be able to leave that numbness behind but only time will tell.  I do understand that the numbness is a defense mechanism that helps me deal with the reality of Southern California.  After all, you have to be numb to watch a 70+ year old woman that looks like your grandma defecating by the recycling bin.  You have to be numb in order to casually step over someone passed out on the sidewalk.  You have to be numb to walk past the once attractive woman that is now toothless and having a loud argument with a tree.  You have to be numb to pop on Netflix while knowing that just a few hundred yards away is a homeless encampment in the dry river bottom that has hundreds of men and women sleeping in the tangles near the salt marsh.  I have become comfortably numb.  I didn’t before but I now 100% understand what that means.

 

In a few short days I will take the Ventura Highway out of town and out of California.  On a positive note, my $3200 a month artist loft (parking and utilities not included) is now available to rent.  What a deal, huh?

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ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
Anonymous
Anonymous

One way to shut down the free wi-fi is to download movies that are still showing in theaters from Bittorrent sites. The IPs are logged and taken to court for copyright violations. The fine can be $30,000. The person taken to court is the owner of the router with the IP that shows up on the Bittorrent website. That will turn off free wi-fi faster than anything else.

swimologist
swimologist

“The worst was being told that I was a “racist” for believing that anyone of any race can achieve their goals if they work hard.”
The continent of Africa has received north of $10 trillion dollars in aid from Western nations since the 1960s. No amount of “working hard” will ever change the low-I.Q. dark continent. Your musings about “the races” is naive.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Here’s a plan to end the “sanctuary cities”.
First of all, any ICE office should transfer all agents OUT of those cities. Just leave one person to answer the phones.
Second, spread the word in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Mideast, that an illegal can go to these cities, and there are no immigration officials, no ICE, no police to hassle them.
Third, relax controls at the border so that MORE illegals get through. Within months, these sanctuary cities will be screaming from draconian measures.

gilberts
gilberts

Paging Bubonic Plague, Cholera, Typhus, and Small Pox.
Paging Bubonic Plague, Cholera, Typhus, and Small Pox.
There’s a people spill in California.

Paula
Paula

you are spooky

gilberts
gilberts

Your picture is pretty.

Paula
Paula

is the dotter lol but she looks like me a long time ago

gilberts
gilberts

imposter!

European American
European American

Without a doubt, the most beautiful women on the planet lived in the Golden State pre-1980’s.
Oh, those were great times for an innocent, naive young man with abundant libido.

(EC)
(EC)

Old Pangloss said that when he was in Florida, all he heard about was the beautiful women in Cali. Then he came to Cali and all the talk is about the beautiful women in Florida.

The poon is always juicier on the other side of the fence or back in the day.

Paula
Paula

i put together a playlist for you know who

Paula
Paula

1990s in san diego i was there for the first time

was that you

M G

I am so glad to see this featured this morning. I think some of the responses it has gotten here, and at ZH and on other sites have been amazing.

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the picture you drew for us and hope others are moved (sic) to respond to it today.

impermanence
impermanence

Equal amount of good and bad in everything. Where I live in California is still really nice. It’s a big state, so you don’t have to leave, find another area that is less expensive. You might not have perfect weather [75F instead of 72F] but it’s still incredibly comfortable.

And don’t confuse California with the some of the people who happen to be here. The homeless are here for the same reason you are. If you were homeless, where would you go?

Having said that, perhaps a solution might be akin to what George Carlin suggested years ago, that is, fence off a square state, put all the homeless there and let them earn their way back into society [or let them stay there indefinitely]. Nobody should have to put up with their filth.

Two if by sea. Three,if from within thee
Two if by sea. Three,if from within thee

Great read.
Must’ve been difficult to leave the area behind.
I know the area only briefly due to a Motogp race I went to see at Laguna Seca in 06. Remarkable place.
Best wishes

Ride the Waves Saturday

mags called and told me to do this

cause i owe tmwnn an apology and admin dont like to beg

he has a good setup here and you guys should chip in and pay for it

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(EC)
(EC)

CO2 Asked if I would be joining Nickleback on his tour of the states looking for a new home. This was my reply on Unc’s article:

No. San Diego, Los Angeles/Santa Monica/Ventura and San Francisco are huge decapolis cities on the coast. They attract homeless people seeking warm winter weather. Those places also have public showers and bathrooms on the beach. It’s a nutjob paradise.

If you are not in Cali, you believe the entire state is covered in shit. It isn’t. Life is pretty much normal away from the places like where Nickle lives currently. The downtown areas of Los Angeles, Hollywood, Santa Monica and Ventura reek of piss. That’s because homeless people piss on the sidewalks in the night. San Diego had a breakout of cholera or something like that because of the street shitters.

It is not known who dumps homeless people in downtown LA but there have been videos of indigent hospital patients being dumped in the street in broad daylight. I have heard reports of homeless people bused into San Bernardino and dumped at a Jack in the Box there.

We are not immune to homeless people up here in the AV but the climate is not like LA’s year-round 72 degrees. It has been sunny and dry here all ‘winter’ but the temps this month have gotten to as low as 20 on a couple of mornings. That’s not conducive to sleeping in the street or in a tent.

I have often bitched about LA types because they drive like they own the road. There are so many folks – whites, blacks, asians, beaners, arabs and jews – down below (the LA basin) and all the way to San Diego that they have the manners of crowded rats. People are generally nice up here but with the huge influx of LA types who sold high and came up here to buy low, that decorum may be passe’.

Paula
Paula

you really do know how to write right after all

i prefer it in the plains of oklahoma where the wind comes whipping across the plain

(EC)
(EC)
Paulita Senorita!
Paulita Senorita!

trescientos

TampaRed

now you’re cooking w/gas,senor ec–anything by the tt is ok by me–
here’s one back at ya–

Bingo
Bingo

No, you can never move away. Physically perhaps, but EVER SINGLE CALI PERSON brings with them the “tolerance” to accept an incredible degree of dysfunctional society and persons. Especially those who are considered “conservative”. This is an observation proven through 25+ years of experience. They demonstrate conclusively just how much shitholia they will accept in their surroundings.

That is why “ex”-califonians are welcome pretty much nowhere – always seeking to change the new location to what they left behind.

It is a disease. Clean up your own locale to prove otherwise.

(EC)
(EC)

Why didn’t the Pilgrims stay in Europe and clean up their mess there?

Glock-N-Load

Booyah. Touche.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

+++

Ned2
Ned2

“I’m afraid that the one thing I will be carrying with me out of California is a numbness to human suffering.”

Yes, but only initially. After a while you will learn that people in other parts of the country NOT LIKE CALIFORNIA, are different and you can learn to be like them. Assimilate. Eventually you’ll look back and laugh.
(Oh, and don’t bring that coastal elite we will tell you how to live your life attitude with you)

Jeff Martin
Jeff Martin

WOW! How sad…

Debo
Debo

I forwarded this to a friend who lives in SoCal. He’s been there for decades. This is the bulk of his reply:

It’s all spot on correct and he’s living up the coast near Santa Barbara. It’s even grimmer in Los Angeles. I’m also ‘comfortably numb’ to the extent possible for an old guy underemployed in a world of rich youngsters. It can’t get any better however since I’ve lived in the same place 30 years and the rent ‘only’ goes up 3% each year.

I’m looking every day for work and a place to escape to – I’ve a small town in New Mexico that will suffice, but I can’t yet (financially)pull the trigger.

Just up the alley across the main road they’ve taken the abandoned bus terminal and set up a homeless center.
Every Friday great masses of them must vacate sections of the beach front pavement so the city can power wash the area. A couple have made a parking spot just outside my studio their weekly temporary spot. There are regular hysterical shouting matches over whatever great moral issue presents itself in such a universe.

Most these people are not employable and likely never were. What’s to be done?

There’s been a complete and mean-spirited betrayal of the working class by the ever more wealth elite, and the massively overloaded bureaucracies.

Quanonymous
Quanonymous

you can say that again sister

Haxo Angmark

relevant essay….I’ll be leaving Judeo-Mexifornia later this year. And won’t ever look back. Looking foward to seeing nothing but gun-carrying Whites and hearing Whites speak nothing but English.

M G

You need to meet Yoji Bear.

KaD
KaD
WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable

My best advice is make your first priority at your new locale obtaining new, local, license plates. I’ve heard tell people in other states aren’t too happy with the influx of “Golden State Refugees”.

Jacob
Jacob

Quite funny blogger :)) asking for donations while paying 3200usd rent :)). Really different planet this california. Jacob, Europe ,Bulgaria

RiNS

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M G

Jacob?

A few of JQ’s biggest fans tend to ask for donations around here because Admin is sort of shy about it.

But, running a big blog like this costs money and those of use who realize it pay the piper a few dollars from time to time.

And pester folks like you to give money to support the effort.

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PJ
PJ

I have lived twice in California, three times if you count Twentynine Palms. I always got out as fast as I could, and do not understand the draw it has in some people. Now my wife wants to move to Davis as our boy will be in graduate school there. Damn!

I love Wyoming and Montana, primarily because of the people although the scenery is nice too. Even Democrats there love their guns. But to get back I will have to go alone.

I had a friend who moved from California to a small town in Wyoming. To let her neighbors know where she was coming from politically, she took her CA plates off the car, shot holes through them, and hung them on her fence in front of the house. She also became a NRA-certified firearms instructor in the town, and carried openly everywhere she went.

impermanence
impermanence

There are approx 40M people in CA. You probably can’t ever get to really know one very well, but the folks on this site believe they intimately know every one of us.

The difference between here [TBP] and anywhere else isn’t very much. Most of the people I know here are really nice with the same hopes and dreams as everywhere else. We just happen to like nice weather and are willing to pay the piper.

After all, every form of refuge has its price.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

That refuge is only going to get more expensive as time goes on and more people change their minds about staying.
Sanctuary State NJ is like California. More people leave every year due to the cost of living and tax burden increases. In my area they’re replaced by more low income non-English speaking minorities loading the school system, Hasidic Jews with large families moving from NY and elsewhere, and a large retirement community. When the state pension system implodes and the government services dry up it’s going to be brutal for many.
I’m glad there are people like you generous enough to pay the way for yourselves and others. You can have my share, gladly.

mike
mike

Seems you forgot to add “and every price is acceptable”, according to your thinking.

c1ue
c1ue

Great to see the TBP divided and conquered are still snapping at each other.

TampaRed

here’s an unbelievable story from friday about cali–however,local officials are the good guys here & the feds are the bad guys–
the feds were going to move 50 corona patients to an unused health facility in orange county but when the locals heard about it they went into fed. court & got an injunction —
let’s hope it holds up–

CDC Orders China Virus Carriers to CA City

TampaRed

Sid Vicious
Sid Vicious

One wonders why you woke up now. This has been going on for some time. Have the drugs finally worn off? You should read The Grapes of Wrath. That’s what’s waiting for you wherever you go. Karma. It’s a bitch, Golden Boy.

BB

Good to hear from you Nickelodeon ,I don’t have much to say just be safe while traveling.This country has lost its damn mind
And there are crazy people everywhere or so it seems. Hope everything works out as you move to your new home.

Ghost

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the experienced
the experienced

Nickle, thank you for the article. I travel to CA frequently and have seen a lot of what you are describing. The line that touched me most in your writing is being afraid of the numbness to human suffering.
I am experiencing some of that myself. But it’s not so much that I don’t care. It is that I simply don’t know how to react anymore.
Just the other day, 32 degrees, raining, I saw a being walking in the road and stopped to invite the being into my warm and dry car. After pulling the little hood off, the being appeared to be a middle age woman. I asked her where she wanted to go and she answered “the hospital”. I had time to spare and headed that direction. She took her skimpy shoes and socks off and tried to warm her feet on the car’s heater, which I had turned to full blast. Then she began to “interview” me about my name and where I worked. As we went up the hospital drive way she wanted to go with me to my work place. There I had to say “no” and demand that she get out.

Other times some beings at the Walmart entrance or elsewhere try to talk to me and I cannot even make out the words they are saying.
It’s the mental breakdown I don’t know how to react to. How do you deal with a being that has lost all reasoning and acts like a drunk (or maybe zombie)?
Not that I have not met drunks before. But the setting is so clashing. I expect drunks at midnight in a dark bar on Saturday nights, but not on a bright sunny weekday in front of Walmart.

How can one show compassion in these scenarios? That compassion that is meant to run from our Creator through us?

Anon no more
Anon no more

This speaks for a lot of us right now. But, where do we go to get away from it?

Leaving California

Top reasons for leaving Cali…

Jai Seli
Jai Seli

Schiff-hole digs.

Bram
Bram

I lived in CA for a couple of years in the 90’s while attending school. It was already bad then – with a Republican Governor and Mayor. That perfect weather is a magnet to bums – as are the water-hearted liberals who refuse to deal with the problem. I could see where the state was headed and got out fast after graduating.

23 Vamoose (EC)
23 Vamoose (EC)

If I had a dime for every weak dick who saw where Cali was headed and got out fast…
Everybody wants you to stay dickless! Has it ever occurred to you that your the reason Californios are so reviled? You fuckers ran away and gave Cali a bad rep with your wild stories about street shitters. Shame on you!

Sonja
Sonja

You Broke it, you bought it. It’s been decades in the making. Now KalifornIa’s are moving to our previously beautiful peaceful towns and breaking them too with their perfect Ideology about how we should ZONE farming and ranching communities so they don’t have to ‘LOOK AT’ Greenhouses and old cars or tractors, vote up tax bonds for every welfare program and make everywhere that wasn’t before an illegal immigrant safe haven and Sanctuary Town. Californians are parasites that make everywhere they go the High Tax Slum they came from, and then Leave it again to a new location, making it Worse, not better than before.
WE DON’T WANT YOU. Stay in the fecund slum YOU CREATED and live in your filthy mess. Don’t come around us.
When that Fetid sinking , stinking , feces and urine, plague infected ship that you created chunks off into the Pacific Ocean and becomes a Country of it’s own, we will ALL be better off.
You made the mess, don’t be thinking, OH, now I can leave, and go stink up the rest of the Country.
Thats JUST Like MEXICANS, who wont Fix their problems , just Move and stink up some other place.

Dave Huff
Dave Huff

Left that shithole years ago and never looked back…..

Gojira Ono (EC)
Gojira Ono (EC)

As the boy wonder, Robin Banks, would say – do you have proof of that? With the high population here, it’s becoming increasingly hard to believe there are so many ex-Californians. I think most of them are posers trying to impress their hillbilly neighbors with stories that begin, When I lived in California…..

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