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     2 years ago (edited) 

    Frankly I am amazed California hasn't collapsed, if even most of the things I have heard and read about how it's governed now are true. I recently saw someone claim Tesla is reopening offices there, which I find dubious (although Musk may need to be there for Twatter, and this may force him to have means of working on his other babies there as well, so maybe). My recollection is that Spacex has offices in Hayworth, CA, so Musk has not entirely removed his empire from that environ.

    Many other people have.

    Honestly, CA isn't alone in being absolutely unlivable for me. I was raised on a wilderness island in AK, and thought I wanted get to a big city as a kid, feeling I was removed from society. However, when I did eventually get to the big cities out of Alaska, I couldn't get out of them fast enough. I briefly sojourned in Austin, TX, Bakersfield, CA, and Portland, OR, before ending up on property where there were far more trees than houses, and felt I didn't need to keep my back to a wall again. I got to LA and just kept going. I never even stopped for gas there.

    Folks that don't get the memo, won't be on defensible ground in coming attacks, and I don't think we've seen nothing yet.

    Keep your back to the wall.

    Thanks!

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     2 years ago  

    I'm really surprised as well and it is unclear how many people are government assisted there and at some point like last recession we saw cities go bankrupt. At some point the whole state defaults and everything in LA turns to a slum.

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    Where have we seen in history slums and ghettos being ruled by jackbooted thugs? Hmmm.... S. Africa? Warsaw? Such history will keep being repeated until no one that hasn't learned from it survives. In Afghanistan the US military seized supply lines for food. Then it offered people free rice - for submitting to biometric scanning of their eyes, their fingerprints, DNA.

    People on the cusp of penury and starvation are without ability to resist tyranny. One meal from watching your babies starve does not support resistance. It forces compliance to any tyranny that comes with a bag of rice.