California, This Video May Trigger You - Watch At Your Own Risk

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[@nikolamarinkov2638]

Now what do I say when I live in Serbia. Where is common to be poor,but we are mostly all educated to the level that other countries would love having us as hard working ,loyal ppl.??? So the answer is,they put us in sizuacion that we cant even live the country cause we dont have enough money to begin with. So,if you David or anybody have an answer for me,I would love/like to listen to them and start living better life. Thank you all up front. And btw,sorry cause of my English. Was writing fast,or did not know better! Thank you again.

[@nikolamarinkov2638]

And am 100% feeling to make changes and do what ever I need to ,just to leave my fallen country behind.

[@calaimc]

Please have John Stewart on....

[@erolkojr]

Good stuff brother always loved your contact.

[@Roberthawkins68]

So unless I'm doing something wrong. I downloaded the WhatsApp and tried to set it up but it wouldn't except my phone number. And then froze my phone. Maybe there's another way to have a video call or something? Or perhaps a KZbin video call, I'm not sure but let me know and we'll figure this thing out

[@JosephDicasio]

To the majority who are leaving, remember that your decisions made the state that way. Respect and do not bring such decisions to the state you are going to. You brought it on yourself in the first place voting for such people.

[@Mysticaltyger]

Yeah, that's the thing people never get. Super frustrating.

[@RenaRego]

Um…as if everyone in the state voted the same way. Secondly, the props are written in ways to confuse the voter…so many people are not even voting the way they think they are…

[@felixw9671]

ya your so right we are to blame like the 2020 elections were real LOLLLL!!!! You folks will never get it. Carry on....

[@newagain9964]

Are you going to say the same for the USA? Cause it’s circling the drain.

[@cosmicallyderived]

Not everyone who left agreed with the policies of where they came from.

[@mikecooley8482]

I did leave California 30 years ago. People come here from California and vote to make Utah more like California. They just get frustrated. People need to understand that if you move to a conservative state you need to understand what makes Utah, Texas, Florida, Idaho, and the rest of them good destinations.

[@NickMcd8893]

Yep well said I've been watching that happen to us here in Arizona as well it's a damn shame man it makes no sense.

[@parisattic]

Amen! You folks in other States - DO NOT YIELD TO California whiners! Hold your ground!

[@cathyadam8118]

Idaho is NOT the same as it once was. Alot of complacent people there. I was considering but after researching and visiting I now call it "IDAHELL"

[@bobbobbinson1841]

i moved to texas from california. we are steady making texas much better by voting against those conservatives.

[@melsmith3662]

@@cathyadam8118 What did you not like about idaho? Genuine question.

[@douglasmcneil8413]

Been in California sense 1966. I was born in 1960. My mom moved here because college was so much cheaper here at the time. Our first apartment was maybe 200 feet from the beach in Venice Ca. After that, we lived in Culver City. After she got her degree, we moved to Corona in '72. She passed away in '87. I stayed in western Riverside County working in physical therapy. Over the decades I've been in California, I've watched my state go from being a land of endless opportunity to a place where dreams go to die. Once I retire, my wife and I are leaving for the Midwest to get way from what I no longer consider to be my state.

[@hotrodchevy4524]

Hope you like to be cold and like the snow and I hope you dont mind bugs the size of cats.

[@suzannewing7574]

@@hotrodchevy4524 Better than people shitting on the streets and NO law and order!!! You should stay in your beautiful California. We do not want you!

[@stevefink6000]

@@hotrodchevy4524 The cost of housing in ski towns is very high too. Where I live, so yes I love snow, and there are very few bugs here, even in summer. I hope you like working your but off to live in crime pollution and traffic.

[@hotrodchevy4524]

@@stevefink6000 I dont live in any of that. I live in the country on 150 acres. : )

[@thebee3909]

@@hotrodchevy4524 maybe you should crawl out of your little hole and go look around California a little bit. The liberals and Democrats have completely destroyed it. And you might not want to leave your car parked for very long if you want to keep your catalytic converter.

[@WackyWitchTV]

I am a single mom and my son is now 16 years old so we have been looking at South Dakota! Living in Los Angeles is so terrible since Covid!

[@LEA-4America]

And since Newsome and Pelosi.

[@jamesmeridith8875]

Agreed I can’t do it anymore. Venice is where I live and it’s strange I used to love it and worked hard to be here. And now I just feel disenfranchised and disgusted 🤢

[@WackyWitchTV]

@@jamesmeridith8875 I lived in Los Feliz for 10 years and I loved it too but it also has become where you drive two blocks and it's horrific. Western and Hillhurst drugs, dead bodies in the streets from Fentanyl overdose, tents, insane people yelling and defecating in the streets it's become Gotham City and I am so glad I got us out!

[@patriotallen9717]

You are absolutely 100 % right. I left California a year ago. I am now debt free and living a comfortable life. Best decision I ever made

[@magz875]

Where did you go if you don't mind me asking. Happy for you; God bless!

[@bneada2246]

Was Cali the reason you are debt free and living a comfortable life?

[@dleww4709]

Same here, EVERY question he was asking about are the exact same factors I was looking into. Especially at 35 without my first house yet. Cali is like built against first time buyers, and I’ve been saying for a while now that if you’re not pushing $150K+ a year you ain’t living anything close to comfortable in Cali. I was absolutely one of those ppl who said I’ll never move, but I waited as long as I could possibly take it, but the homelessness & drugs are out of control

[@magz875]

@@bneada2246 sure is buddy!! I'm paying half of what I used to pay for housing and getting much better quality, paying well over $1 less per gallon of gas, pay much lower sales tax, lower prices for groceries due to much cheaper diesel, wages and rent, and my income automatically went up by a whole 10% as I pay no state income taxes. However, what I got back that is priceless is my mental health- as that California environment along with the neoliberal low class disrespectful void of people are now gone and for good. To hell with that state. Almost destroyed me and I'm honestly bitter about it. My sadness has given way to anger. Thank you God for looking out for me 🙏

[@magz875]

@@dleww4709 happy for you. Where did you end up?

[@Maxchesley72]

To all Californians: stay where you are and FIX the MESS you created. Don't leave and go to another state that you're going to go to and vote the same policies that got you into the mess you're in.

[@bambicrandi]

As a Californian, agreed. I don’t plan on moving to a state without sharing the same policies of that state. This state is messed up because of the majority in the cities who don’t realize the remainder of California doesn’t agree with them. They out number us though. In the next few years I plan to leave to a state with like-minded folk.

[@colorocko1]

Excellent point!

[@knucklehoagies]

this comment made zero impact. californians will leave the state with or without your approval.

[@justinheiple]

The people who are moving didn’t vote for said policies genius 🤣 That’s why they’re leaving

[@tltaber50]

What mess? California is doing great. I love living here.

[@Richboywayne]

They move from Cali to Nashville and act entitled, snobby, complain about everything and vote the same way. I got into it with someone from CA who said we should have front license plates here. Remember if your bumper sticker says Biden, keep on driving.

[@maebliss344]

From TN and lived in Nash almost 20 years. The artists and musicians moved to East Nash where no one else wanted to live because it was too “ghetto” by Cayce homes but we loved it and it was a neat underground feel to the scene…then unfortunately we made it too desirable and they ran us out along with most of the original folks who lived there their entire lives because they couldn’t afford to live there anymore (nor could most of my friends or the ones who could sold their houses to make 100k and took off to Denver or Austin).Now most of the artists and musicians can’t either, unless they are no talent trust fund babies. It’s sad for Nash all around. The future gens are doomed to exposure to more viral TikTok,“content creators” instead of getting really real artists. I left 2 years ago to get closer to my family farm where I was able to get a 6 bedroom home with a pool for what a shot hole in East Nash would have cost, and it’s getting worse. Nashville has lost its Soul.

[@shaunsteele8244]

if they're Biden voters, they'd be happy to stay in CA. The only people leaving are conservative refugees... so maybe don't shoot your own kind

[@patienceobongo]

Typical Socialists, destroying one place after another. Strange they would be snobby when they just ran away from their Calcutta dream.

[@joshbanker8743]

I hate them

[@heaven6535]

All Californians are not like that,a lot of them Californians are really nice people,it's the snobby one's that messed everything up for the real born and raised Californians, most Californians don't agree what's going on here either and hate they have to leave there home state.

[@lynnelliott8226]

We moved out 5 years ago and it has been the best decision we have made. Bought a house twice as big for a 1/3 of what we sold our home for in California. The only thing I miss is friends and family and most of them are getting ready to move.

[@urzsunflower2085]

bye bye

[@kjuarez29]

Same

[@lxquid.ocelot]

did you move to texas

[@AdamWhite-bl1dz]

go back to California. you ruined Texas

[@Zerradable]

Do not vote Democrat.

[@CryptoSurfer]

I grew up in California but reached escape velocity over 25 years ago and never looked back. It was a great place to grow up in at the time, but so glad to be out of there now. This should be a real eye opener for those still hanging on.

[@jamesnguyen7069]

people just love money. gen z will change that

[@miaguilar5512]

Yeah just come rape the Land for Gold and go back and let them pick up the mess left behind

[@JW-dy8ru]

I got the f*** out of CA 9 years ago. So glad that I did.

[@rwdchannel2901]

It's good to be specific of where you grew up in California. If you lived in Palm Springs you might as well be living in Phoenix, Arizona since it's the same weather. Where I live in Ventura, California the weather is always between 55F to 85F all year round. We don't have nearly as bad a homeless problem as Los Angeles and San Francisco.

[@rwdchannel2901]

@J B Do van life and see how hot, cold and bug infested it is out there in red states. You'll be happy you did and appreciate California beach weather more if you make it back.

[@bdbeats7209]

I left California 12 years ago and can't imagine moving back. As much as I've missed my friends and family, there's just no way. It's become a failed state. I feel bad for anyone that is stuck there.

[@polymathg]

What if you've been wanting to escape California for 12 years but have nowhere to go?

[@feilongish]

NY is worst lol

[@eddycarpenter8989]

Stay wherever you went to please

[@Mysticaltyger]

That's how I feel about it. I know people with the ability and means to get out, but they don't wanna see the writing on the wall. They know how I feel about it. Nothing I can do for them.

[@thetastateagency8082]

Failed state with a 19 billion dollar surplus in 2021, and fueling nearly half the economy of the United States lol

[@FunkyMonk4Life]

Back in 2000, I went to the LA area with my company. Coming from Alabama there was certainly culture shock. But, what really shook me was the high rent. I was hq'ed in Buena Park with 5 accounts in the SoCal area to manage. After nearly 6 months of living in a hotel, my company asked if I would relocate. I considered it and started checking the cost of living inre rents and utilities and quickly discovered that I'd need a raise of about 200% and even then, it wasn't like I'd be killing it. I was making 50K back then and in Alabama that was good not great money. In Cali it was near poverty. Needless to say, I declined the offer. Great views out there but underneath the pretty is a whole lot of crazy.

[@sagatuppercut2960]

You probably could've rented an apartment in the Norwalk/Downey area for $1000 a month.

[@gmill1121]

@@sagatuppercut2960 that same apartment now is probably $3,500, I say this man made a smart decision!

[@FARBOLUOS]

@@sagatuppercut2960 Not even. I hear the cheapest in that area for a 2 bedroom apartment runs $1800 a month if you are lucky. Any 1300 sq feet home built in the 1950’s probably sells for 550 or 600 thousand.

[@rik2tr]

I left California for Alabama 17 years ago. Every year it becomes a better choice.

[@vincemajestyk9497]

Funny I had a similar experience in the '90's relating to NYC. I was working in the DC/NoVa area in Tech in say '95-'96 making 65k. I got a call from a NYC Headhunter wanting to hire me for a company in NY. They would bump my pay to 80k I believe it was. After looking around there was NO place I could maintain anywhere NEAR a reasonable standard of living (similar to the one I had) for less than 120k. I told the recruiter that and he said said 'Well, you could live in the Bronx." Images of the movie 'Fort Apache the Bronx' went through my mind. I said 'People LIVE in the Bronx?' He replied 'I live in the Bronx!' I said 'Sorry, Not interested."

[@cbxsounds135]

I saw this coming over a decade ago. I used the revenues from my 3 semitruck company and dropped it on multiple 4 and 5 bedroom homes throughout the Midwest. Now at 11 homes. Each leased to one individual that runs a hospice business. The lease rate is higher than the average rental rate in those areas. At the time I didn't know what I was doing. But it has turned out good, providing my family with a very comfortable life. Thank God. The crazy thing is. It can still be done. I continue to do it.

[@youngloot4592]

How much do you make ? If thats not too much to ask for. I live in cali. I dont know what to do with my money

[@matthewpeterson3329]

As a San Diego native for over 45 years, I was lucky enough to remember California being fairly conservative, especially San Diego. These days, California is running businesses out of town as fast as they can, with no thought of where their tax revenue is coming from. This means the remaining residents will have to absorb that extra burden. For such a beautiful state, it is run by the worst of the worst, power hungry, self-serving bastards in America. They aren't dumb... they're evil. They don't care if Californians lose their business, starve, or die... so long as they get their way. My wife and I escaped in 2015 and never looked back.

[@theoldtimefiddler]

you forgot one other thing "they" are...Toxic Democrats

[@nancyholman8680]

It's no longer as beautiful as it was. I know of what I speak. Born there in 51. All the lefty's, Socialists, Communists made it and the rest of the large cities that way.

[@harlanjackson6112]

It's because Corporate interests rule our entire nation. GDP in California is #1 by far, but fueled by big tech, entertainment, Agriculture (#1 in US), Tourism, etc. Given that our Population grew from 22 million in 1977 to 39 million today, it's no surprise that liberal ideologies took hold. Urban areas lean liberal, while rural areas lean conservative. As any state grows in population it will lean more liberal.

[@h2oburke]

Hey man I grew up in Lakeside, El Cajon area. I moved to Phoenix (Peoria) in February 2020. BEST DECISION IVE EVER MADE!

[@harlanjackson6112]

@@emmanuelgarcia619 Agreed, thank you. Guess that's the beauty of the USA. There's something for everyone here. Embrace the diversity in geography, in our citizens and in opportunity and political outlook. Don't buy into the division sowed by our politically skewed divisive media. If there's a place that's not for you, either work for change or there's another place that fits you. But make your peace with change, because it's the only thing that's constant.

[@johnmcwhirter2526]

We left in January, best decision we ever made. My family is thriving. I was a fourth generation Californian, in my 40’s, and enough was enough.

[@TRoxanne55]

My Husband and were born and raised and lived in California for 40 years. We finally left for Alabama and love it here. Even though he was paid well we had to keep moving to be able to afford it until he got laid off and we couldn’t take it anymore. It was a blessing in disguise. Been here for 10 years now and can’t imagine being anywhere else.

[@laman012]

Haha! Alabama!

[@beccagee5905]

Do you vote liberal?

[@TRoxanne55]

@@laman012 Huntsville Alabama is not the typical South. It’s a transplant city with people from all over. Big military and high tech. More expensive, but cheaper than Ca. It’s so nice here!

[@TRoxanne55]

@@beccagee5905 oh no! We are Conservatives! 😀

[@joewalla8438]

I moved from Chicago to the Gulf Shores of Alabama a few years ago. 🙂

[@apureenergyme9]

Also after I healed my own trauma and become more healthy in my mind and spirit, I see so clear that how horrible deepening narcissism is spreads in CA. Lots of covertly narcissistic people who are good acting like they are “ nice, helping humanity” people, but they are emotionally so broken and so sick and they don’t even know themselves are so sick. I can see them this way now because I now in a very different state of my conscious. Way too many these kind of people are now bundled in CA, no matter is in Hollywood or LA ( this is the flagship of narcissism base), or in those huge high tech companies. These people now are everywhere and in everything layer. Texas has lots of toxic people too, but I can immediately know the difference between people in CA and Texas. Some Texas people are still having more down to earth, and authentic self. They still kept their raw heart when connecting with people. I think that makes a huge difference. They don’t like CA moving to their place, and I don’t blame them, because they hate these people go there and contaminate their culture and beliefs.

[@Aero3D]

Born and raised in Florida, I moved to LA for career, and i blossomed, bless them allowing remote work, because I just left a $3000/month 900sqft studio in Hollywood with resident homeless people that lived on my sidewalk. I lost so much compassion, I literally just left. What a god awful terrible thing to wake up to everyday. It got worse and worse and worse. These people were homeless chilling on that sidewalk the entire 18 months i rented that unit. No way that isnt a choice. Bullshit. One time I saw a dude high out of his mind leaning against my neighbors door to where you can wave your hand in front of him with no response. Horrible. The glamour and glitz of LA is long destroyed. Open your eyes, that place needs a serious cleaning. During the pandemic, I had a $4000/month 8 bedroom house in Kissimmee FL that was 5000 sqft with a pool and jacuzzi on a lake, only 10 min from Disney. After going back to LA, it was impossible to not feel like I was just getting absolutely fucked.

[@Mysticaltyger]

OMG, I can totally relate. I had homeless people outside my door in downtown San Jose. People living in tents on the block. People sleeping on the front porch of our apartment building. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

[@rwdchannel2901]

That's probably why a lot of the movies stars and singers live in Ventura County. Britney Spears lives in Thousand Oaks and Whoopie Goldberg in Ojai. Ventura has gotten a homeless problem but it's nothing near that if you live a nice neighborhood.

[@SamuelClemente7718]

I'm from California. I always saw the California you describing since the 80's

[@dawnv9822]

Welcome to Democratic Destruction! I worked in Los Angeles since early 80s. I’m native California grew up in San Diego moved to OC in 90s near ocean. My area is still 56 Republican but they just did redistricting and of course the pocket of red voters are now merged with true blue voters. Democrat voters in California will vote for D no matter what no matter it was Karl Marx Marxist off spring they just vote party line! It’s terrible they just accept Biden collapse USA and King Newson tyranny destroying California

[@cedarpoplar]

3000? I can barely afford 800. Did you get your doctorates in College... why take a gig in L.A. out of all places though.

[@Benita399]

I'm born and raised in San Diego and left in 2007 when I joined the Navy and never looked back.It actually hurts that the state has gotten this out of control.

[@lorraineakers8147]

Having visited relatives so many times in CA I can feel your pain. I watched a beautiful state being ruined by a socialist government. !

[@mscentsibly1953]

I thought my brother wrote this comment, except he went in the navy in 1976! He left and never went back. My sister left in the late 80’s and we finally left and moved to the red state of Iowa! He is in PA and she is in AZ. Keep flying over this flyover state.

[@dianejensen3420]

We are experiencing the same thing here in Colorado. Arranging to move out next summer! And my family's pledge to our new state - we're going to help you stay conservative and be a part of the solution - NOT become a part of the problem!!!

[@lucasgraham505]

I left Colorado years ago. Came back to NC. Was able to get a house here. But the town is now over ran with tourists. The good thing is that I'm working towards setting up my house for an airbnb. I'll probably go back up to Alaska for a while since my parents live up there.

[@shaunsteele8244]

Colorado is as blue as they come... they were like the first state to legalize weed lol

[@TheBandit7613]

I left Colorado 20 years ago. Traffic, road rage, high prices... California ruined Colorado 30 years ago.

[@aaronwermers4160]

I love Colorado, but it has changed so much.

[@shaunsteele8244]

@@TheBandit7613 30 years ago California was still a red state lol

[@PatriotLady1991]

Born and raised in CA 1967. Left in 2010. I loved being raised there. Beautiful, enchanting, gorgeous geography. It's a damn shame what's happened there. 😕

[@Laycismom]

I feel trapped in California. I make less than $50k a year. I’m very lucky to be able to say that my house will be paid off this year...luckier than most. I was born and raised here. I’m now in my 50s. I am sickened by the things going on in California. The community I live in was once full of crops and hard working people picked those crops. Now all I see is dry fields and miles of solar panels. The North stopped most of our water. It’s really quite sad. We have homeless everywhere. Crime is through the roof. I wish I could afford to leave. I feel like better places to live are going to quickly fill up. Cost of living is going up everywhere. I miss the good old days.

[@wilkolb7239]

Sell, and get the heck out of there.

[@tribequest9]

you will probably poopoo on this advice but here is a try: you could literally sell a shack in california for half a million and go buy a nice retirment home for $200,000 in FLorida.

[@Laycismom]

@@tribequest9 I really wish I was brave enough to do that. I lost my husband now it is just me and my teenage daughter. 😢

[@johncherish7610]

It only takes one step at a time and the willpower to do it. The first step is the hardest you can sell your house in California and basically have enough money to buy 2 in Florida. Imagine living in one and renting the other to pay your living expenses. It was the best move I've ever made

[@tribequest9]

@@Laycismom there are whole retirement villages all over Florida, I'm telling you the cost of living is way cheaper.

[@kevinstenger4334]

My brother and I were born in Riverside in 1960 and 1961, there were 10 kids in my family and in 1966 my parents fled because it was getting so crazy and the schools were getting dangerous. They moved us to Michigan where I lived most of my adult life before moving to Tennessee 6 years ago and several of the reasons we left Michigan were the same reasons my parents left California. Now we have tee shirts being sold here that say “Don’t California my Tennessee “.

[@ginnynelson5540]

We just moved to Tennessee this year from Washington state for the same reasons. In addition we felt our voices did not count due to mail in voting practices .

[@votpavel]

i wonder where those fuckers will go if every state is california

[@gregb.8280]

Our voices weren’t being heard from illegal voting practices , ( california ) Tennessee will stay Tennessee on my watch

[@nancyholladay5455]

Nhhgg96

[@jamesgibson5876]

Not to mention.. the trains are off the rails in rubideoux

[@BClements]

Bravo! I left California last year to give my family and kids a better life. Best decision ever.

[@rafat15]

Where to?

[@jessicaembers924]

The nicest thing in California is the lights in Reno when you're leaving.

[@privateprivate1914]

My husband and I just left California (after 60 and 65 years there). We were born and raised there loved growing up there, having our family, building a business and having a wonderful group of friends. We saw the decline though and knew it was time to go 2 years ago. Our kids are now leaving too. It’s just not smart to stay there anymore and you explained it perfectly. Thank you Patrick. The move wasn’t easy, but it’s well worth it and our political viewpoint aligns much better with where we are now.

[@katashley1031]

We left in 2016. My husband was born and raised there, I spent most of my life there and neither of us ever thought we would leave. His uncle is still there, he's an electrician and currently had to travel to Northern Cal just to get some work. We keep urging him to move, his $300k house is now worth well over a million. Some folks are just not ready to abandon ship. We miss it every single day. We keep praying for a political and economic 180, we want to go home.

[@colorocko1]

Reading your reply made me think of a trip I made from CO to CA 11 or so years ago and I had not been to CA for many years at that point. I flew into LAX, rented a car and thought this place looks decrepit compared to what I remembered. From what I hear and see it steadily got worse. I won't even visit there anymore.

[@mariaparks3494]

@@colorocko1 We were inundated with too many Mexicans. Los Angeles is ruined. I loved going up to LA on the weekends. I never go anymore. All the homeless came here because of the handouts. I'm not leaving because I expect things to change soon.

[@privateprivate1914]

@@james4639 Alabama (eastern side)

[@TwinSister1957]

Exited Nor-Cal three years ago. The chaos was sucking the life out of me. Working @ Sac International Airport. Housing cost were 75% of my income. Retired early age 63, loaded up moving truck, car on tow trailer, hop inside with my cat as my co-pilot. Driving 800 miles to my new State. Honestly, I did shed tears as I left California. Not for my home State, for my daughter and gran kids who prefer big city life. I choose to live the last chapter of my life in peace. Settled here in a SMALL CONSERVATIVE TOWN on the beautiful Oregon Coast. Where people respect one another and the environment. As I walk the beaches every morning, grateful I have found peace of mind.

[@EliasSreyes]

I left CA for AZ in 2020. 1 week before I moved i received a paycheck where my take home was aprox $1,200 MORE. I called HR and said I have 2 problems, 1. My raise kicked before it was suppose to and 2. The raise is no the amount we agreed too. HR called me back and said we haven’t processed your raise yet, we just updated your address to your new AZ home. What you received is the difference in taxes you will NOT pay anymore living in AZ. And THEN, my raise kicked in. 😀 True story. Thank you god! 🙏🏼

[@FirstNation1492]

Please leave.

[@1GQ_gent]

What is the ideal best part of AZ to live in?

[@joshflinchbaugh5866]

I was born and raised here (23 in a week) and I'm happy to say that I'm finally going to leave Commiefornia (hopefully for good) to work for my Aunt and her husband's business starting in September. It's a great opportunity they've given me that I'm so grateful for.

[@joshbanker8743]

Oh and where's that?

[@caridadrevilla2439]

Good luck on your new venture!!

[@MelodyJacksonPhD]

Where are you moving to?

[@jameshughes131]

The rich want poor to move out. The plan is working! Many will stay homeless before they ever think about leaving

[@shaunsteele8244]

dude you missed out on the real California in the 80s and 90s. 23 years ago it was just starting to get bad.

[@deadeye566]

I went to part of high school in California in 1960, then came back a few years later with the Navy and was stationed in San Diego for 4 years, and stayed in California after I got discharged. In 1975, things started to get a little worse. I was paying $85 a month for rent, and by 1980, the rent had gone from $85 to about $400. I finally decided to leave in 1995. I was working at a great job and making lots of money, but that didn't make up for how bad the taxes and state over regulation was getting. In 1996, my wife and I finally pulled the plug. I quit my good job, and we moved to Idaho. That turned out to be the best thing I just about ever did. I struggled for a couple of years, but I never regretted leaving California. What I did regret was how badly the state government was screwing up the state for all the people who were still living there. I'm very happy living in Idaho, and would never think about going back to California.

[@tiffanygrever8092]

Have you experienced a lot of attitude with some up hear I moved up hear in 2000 and I still feel like an outsider?

[@deadeye566]

@@tiffanygrever8092 More or less. I've been a gun nut for years, so I pretty much fit in here. I'm an instructor, Range Officer, and on the Board of Directors at Black's Creek outdoor range, and have several friends there. But at the same time, I'm not religious, so there are a lot of things I just don't talk with people about. I'm also not a native Californian and had lived in several places before I got to California. But I know what you mean. My wife died a little over 4 years ago, and I've been alone ever since. I have a fair number of casual friends, but nobody that I'm very close to, so when I say that I've been alone, I mean REALLY alone. I've joined a few groups, which helps. Besides the range, I volunteer at a cat rescue place called Simply Cats, and have been doing that for about 4 years. I also belong to IAWCA, which is another firearms group. I don't know if I feel like an outsider or not. If you'd like to talk, my email is [e-mail], and if you send me an email, I'll give you my phone number.

[@kbanghart]

@@deadeye566 I enjoy your comments. I have lived in California my entire life, but I don't share the view of all the complainers.

[@vanlarson9213]

I left the State of California in 2021. I live there for 65 yrs and saw the state changed every decade to the worst. I got tired of the high taxes, hi crime, high prices food, gas, and goods. I have always been Republican and said enough is enough. I agree with everything your saying about California. I sold everything I own, my homes, business, and I even left family members, and even church members. And I'd do it all over again. A big Hell no to California and the governor, and all the elected officials running the state into the ground' Love it in Northern Virginia'

[@andrewl6899]

Your fault it got worse. 65 years of your liberal voting. Now you moved to a good state maybe even mine to screw that state up. Locus that’s all Californians are.

[@jpatt85]

It's intentional. They only want extremely rich or extremely poor people living there (kings and servants) The proof is in the results.

[@nakclahan6445]

Lmao.. is the the elected office who destroy the state.. is the dummies who voted for them To be in the office

[@marypower8404]

I also left california jan. of 2022 after 69 yrs. (native) and will never go back. Was such a good move.

[@onabrebv]

Me too. Great thing is that I purchased 3x the home and land in other states with plenty left over and quickly found great churches that led to awesome friends. I'm shocked that Newsome was re-elected with nearly 70% vote. He and Pelosi, along with the liberal mayors will continue to drag the state further into the abyss.

[@LilannB]

I am 60 and old enough to remember when CA was the land of opportunity and a place people went to to make a fresh start and live a good life. Progressive policies have destroyed the state. I live in the Midwest and literally pay a fraction of what people pay in CA for a 1 bedroom apartment. This is an apartment not in the hood but in a nice suburb. At this time I work remote. I fill my gas tank once a month sometimes every other month. So I buy gas 6-12 times a year. The grocery store, the gas station, the drugstore the post office are all within 5 minutes of where I live. So I use very little gas. Yes we have crime here but I do not see people openly stealing at Walgreens. We had 6 hours of rioting back in May 2020 the Gov sent in the National Guard then imposed a curfew for a week there has been no rioting since then. There are homeless here but I can drive literally 1 hour in any direction and not see a homeless encampment. Things are bad in CA due to the destructive policies imposed by the politicians there.

[@danielgloverpiano7693]

You’re not very smart. First off the number of homeless has nothing to do with any policies. you’re failing to ask the question “why” are there homeless in liberal areas. Did liberals cause this problem? Hell no! In fact it was Ronald Reagan who is the father of modern day homelessness. Here’s why: 1 Reagan defunded state mental hospitals which put all those people onto the street. 2 homeless people in big cities don’t originate there. They either come there for the free services, better weather or the fact they aren’t hassled. 3. Red areas in California are documented as sending their unwanted homeless populations to LA and SF on one way bus tickets. SF has full time social workers at the bus terminal who helps them when they arrive. Greg Abbott is using the same formula to get rid of the illegals coming across the border. He’s sending them to NYC and DC as we speak. 4 people who are homeless in major cities usually couldn’t have afforded to live there at any point. They weren’t residents in those cities before being homeless. 5 the homeless who come voluntarily to major cities know that those are safe havens where they can get free food, healthcare and are treated as human beings by liberals. Conservatives chase them out with guns. 6 the majority of the homeless have mental health and/or drug addiction. They knew that in cities they will feel safer in a community with similar people around them, and the cities don’t hassle them when they do drugs. In SF we opened the hotels for them during Covid. Many of them opted to stay on the street because they thought it would mean giving up drugs and they weren’t willing to do that. So stop blaming liberal policies for homelessness. It’s the opposite. Liberals are the ones who generate our economy and are compassionate enough to help the homeless. Conservatives might not have made those people homeless, but they sure as hell don’t offer any solutions. It’s like their healthcare plan. which is a big…… Nothing!

[@danielgloverpiano7693]

Among the reasons I’m happy to be able to afford San Francisco is because it was voted world’s best city to live in in 2021. People actually come here to be homeless because living on our streets is better than living in the Midwest. I grew up in the Midwest and couldn’t live there again. I can walk to the opera house, symphony, museums, and all the things you can walk to. I also don’t use my car. It’s comical that people say liberal policies have made housing expensive. NO!!! It’s because California is a desirable place to live and the Midwest isn’t, that people want to live here and that drives up the price. It’s about location location. You have no ocean and no redwood forests, do you? The best part is that our weather is 63 degrees year round. As climate change continues to make our planet unlivable, just remember that there is one city in America that never gets above 70. You guessed it: Time Out crowned San Francisco as the “world’s best” city to live in for 2021. The Media & Entertainment company surveyed more than 27,000 city people about dining, nightlife, friendliness, and environmental initiatives to come up with a list of the greatest cities in the world. Living in a city during a pandemic seems kind of pointless,” Time Out wrote. “Except, this past year, somehow, it hasn’t actually felt that claustrophobic. In cities worldwide, people have pulled together. And what came out of the doom? A whole load of positive stories and amazing ideas that could define the future of urban life.” San Francisco was praised for its progressive politics, community initiatives, and perfect weather. Amsterdam, Manchester, Copenhagen, and New York were listed next.

[@chrystallee5528]

@@danielgloverpiano7693 Say what you will but, living in a city filled with homeless folks and covered with needles and human feces on the ground, wanton crime everywhere and the highest taxes around is not my idea of a utopia. It's more like a dystopia.

[@danielgloverpiano7693]

@@chrystallee5528 yeah too bad everything you said there is made up by Fox. You’ve clearly never been to San Francisco. Sorry, but red rural states have the highest crime, gun deaths and murders. You have horrible weather, everyone is poor and uneducated. Too many guns and too many churches. Your food is less healthy and people live four and a half years shorter than we city dwellers. We are healthier and happier than you. After declining for several years, life expectancy in the U.S. is beginning to level off. An American born in 2020 has an average life expectancy of 79.1 years - but this can vary widely from place to place across the country. Most rural areas actually have a lower 2020 life expectancy than a decade earlier. Yet in cities, where people have better access to health care and high-paying jobs, life expectancy is relatively high. In fact, in many cities, people can expect to live well into their 80s. To determine the cities where people live the longest, 24/7 Tempo reviewed data on life expectancy in U.S. metropolitan areas from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Of the 40 American major metro areas where people live the longest, the majority, 23, are in the western part of the country - including a dozen metro areas in California. The only other state with more than two metro areas on this list is Florida, with four. In the vast majority of the metro areas on this list, residents tend to be wealthy. Of the 40 metro areas, 28 have median annual household incomes higher than the U.S. median income of $65,712. These relatively high incomes allow residents to afford high quality health care, while lower incomes can hinder access to quality health care and nutritious diets. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, California > Life expectancy: 83.37 years - 4.28 more than US average > Obesity rate: 20.7% - 376th out of 382 > Smoking rate: 9.7% - 377th out of 382 > Adults who don’t exercise regularly: 14.8% - 374th out of 382 > Adults without health insurance: 4.3% - 347th out of 382 > Median household income: $114,696 (US average: $65,712) > Population: 4,731,803

[@danielgloverpiano7693]

@@chrystallee5528 what you said is rightwing propaganda made up by Fox. Here’s the reality of living in SF. The median house prices are 1.5 million for good reason. You couldn’t afford it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJCppnyZjbaGpdk

[@CKILBY-zu7fq]

Great delivery brother. I don't know why you went here, but its one of the real subjects we should all talk about. Peace be on your house.

[@chilliecheesecake]

As someone living in the foothills of Lesser Appalachia, I think I can speak for most southerners when I say that we don't mind people leaving the West and East Coasts to come live down here and enjoy a better, slower way of life. We just ask that you respect our own way of doing things and that you don't vote for the kind of people that fucked up your own neck of the woods.

[@riproar11]

Awesome! Well, put. Respect your new neighbor who welcomes you. Don't try to be an arrogant missionary of failed practices. I lived in California and gladly left it.

[@chilliecheesecake]

@@riproar11 Glad you managed to get out of there bubba! 🖤

[@gailcarey3597]

Amen!

[@flynnlivescmd]

They dont respect the ways, and they do vote for those kinds of people thats why this is happening. Negative ghost rider, abort!

[@samuelmartin2817]

I CONCUR

[@debbievinsant4610]

I live in Tn have a boat at the local dock met a man from California fishing off the dock he fled California and said he was almost afraid to tell me he was from there he said he was going broke in California and was a conservative so people were giving him a hard time. I of course welcomed him to Tn I feel sorry for people with any moral values who are stuck in the state of California but if you do move to conservative towns we are religious we follow the 10 commandments to the best of our ability that is what has kept us normal we want to stay that way just be sure you can respect our values and vote red! We may not be rich but our needs are met and we have respect for just enjoying the lake and the mountains God has blessed us with. You are welcome but as I said don’t treat us as if we are not as good as you or that our way of thinking is wrong remember we have preserved a good life with our way of thinking. If you vote blue want to protest for every little thing and raise your children without morals true morals then stay away and maybe look for a place that meets your values.

[@davidmecucci7348]

Very well said 👏

[@shaunsteele8244]

I'm a conservative Californian and I know a LOT of people who have fled to Tennessee. I'd love to join them but my wife's family and career keep us here for the time being.

[@jacks1bonnielass]

Lived in TN my whole life, now I’m in West TN just a couple towns from my hometown. I met 2 ppl from CA, one from NY that were complete asshats with the typical extreme leftist mindset. Unfortunately, the two from CA didn’t know how to drive a U-Haul & nearly plowed me down when the driver didn’t stop at a stop sign, so he rolled his window down & started screaming at ME, and that’s when I saw his F-Trump tshirt that had a rainbow on it lol Mind you, I’m sitting on my ADV150 with my brake hand resting on my 9mm as he started getting belligerent. Calling me a dumb hick etc etc and saying stuff like “I bet you all still try to hang black ppl” 🙄 It wasn’t until after I began tapping the top of the barrel that he realized what it was & finally drove off. I guess he was trying to be edgy by wearing it in the South? 🤦🏼‍♀️ I told him he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. The person from NY was just as dumb. However, there’s been a few others I’ve met from CA who were nice ppl & who genuinely just wanted a better life to escape the hellhole CA has become.

[@williamj4538]

@@shaunsteele8244 yeah and all those fleeing are jacking up the prices for locals in other states causing them to not afford their own town they grew up in. We hate seeing anyone who’s with CA plates. Stay in CA.

[@shaunsteele8244]

@@williamj4538 no, I'm an American citizen and I'll go wherever I please. You're an idiot if you think average citizens are causing your housing prices to go up

[@netnegryy]

This video described 100% my personal situation. After 2 years in California, I moved back to Florida to continue living in my $350k house bought in 2015 brand new, 2500 SQ ft, no state taxes, ready to start saving like never before

[@eddycarpenter8989]

California is the major leagues. Not everyone can make it here

[@thesaneparty4079]

@@eddycarpenter8989 The homeless are doing amazing there, so I see what you mean.

[@eddycarpenter8989]

@@thesaneparty4079 less than 0.5% percent of California's population is homeless. In a state with over 39 million people. And most are concentrated in two cities. Lol you should go outside more and inform yourself through interactions in the real world rather than the media and random KZbin people.

[@thesaneparty4079]

@@eddycarpenter8989 I wasn't born in America, but there are only a few states I haven't been to, and southern Cal isn't one of them. My point is that democrats are evil, regardless of where in the universe they may be. The tax base is leaving Cali, and the shit-themselves base is moving in. Just because you may be lucky enough to die before it affects you personally doesn't mean the rest of us can't see the current flow.

[@ThaSilentOne420]

@@eddycarpenter8989 Major leagues of what . The mexicans own your state . Major leagues of abt to run out of water ? Crime ? Homeless? Feces on the streets? GTFOH

[@theshelterproject_]

I Current live in San Diego County about 10 mins from the beach. I make about $200,000k per year and it’s really hard. I have two daughters and my wife stays at home. We pay $4,000 per month in rent. Building a house in beautiful Upstate South Carolina for $460k. Moving in a few months! Made a choice for my wife and daughters to have a better life and freedom. God bless America. We are heading towards more turbulent times. Trust in the lord and lean note on your own understanding.

[@LEA-4America]

Good luck to you and your family, friend. SC is beautiful :).

[@jtsimms5116]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I left 28 years ago!... Born and raised Californian, former surfer even. BEST decision I ever made! EVERY conversation I have with childhood friends through MBA classmates talk of how miserable it is or they are. SO GLAD I saw the writing on the walls so many years ago.

[@colorocko1]

Please don't change your new political climate to cali's politics. I see that where I live. Cali people excaped their tyranny only to bring it somewhere else.

[@kastelvetro1491]

dont type shout , caps lock make u look stupid.

[@coastdaze748]

@@DavidOfTheSouth You sure can, DM. Being sucked into the CA lifestyle because you won't give up surfing has derailed the lives of some die-hard surfers who believed they could never be a former surfer. More losers than winners had that "can't leave surfing" mentality. Surfing has been a black hole for far too many male surfers in particular, imo.

[@jtsimms5116]

@@DavidOfTheSouth I hear you bud! You can put them in the same sentence though... Like riding a bike, it comes right back when I get to do it... Small, small price to pay for escaping (Cali). It's Not the surfing part that's the Best decision, it's the getting out of California, that is. Maybe I'll retire in Hawaii or Colombia where my fiancé is from

[@BigBear--]

Perfectly stated, and exactly the reasons me and my family are running from NYC. We immigrated there in '91 from the former USSR, and we can't stand how bad and screwed up NYC has gotten. We have bought a place in FL and are so excited for our new lives there. The area we're moving to has extremely low crime, great weather, great people, much cheaper cost of living and lots of opportunity, there is also a large Russian community there, so it's an easy transition for my family and my grandmother. We closed out 2 large apartments in NYC, and no one is upset for leaving, there's nothing there anymore, every single aspect of life has gotten so much worse over the years...high taxes, high gas prices, high cost of food, high tolls, huge increase in crime (to the point that no one feels safe walking alone at night, or using any public transportation), traffic is worse, road quality is worse, new speed and red light cameras EVERYWHERE, places that took 10 minutes to get to before now take 40 minutes to an hr. We pray for DeSantis's health and well being, and hope he sticks around FL for a long time, he's done so many great things there, can't wait for our home renovations to be completed so we can finalize the move... All my friends and their families are also either in the process of leaving, planning on leaving, or have already left. Democrats are a blight, a plague, are parasites of the worst kind...they destroy everything they touch, and do it with the sweetest sounding words, while they burn everything to the ground.

[@craiglawson663]

Florida is its own country. Its beautiful down here. Welcome.

[@mrpickles3454]

Awesome, and that last part about democrats is spot on I was literally just thinking the same thing earlier today. Good luck in Florida

[@BigBear--]

@@craiglawson663 Thanks, looking forward to it.

[@BigBear--]

@@mrpickles3454 It truly blows my mind...sometimes I have no idea how anyone is dumb enough to vote for them, or brainwashed enough. Then I remember where I came from, and it kind of makes sense. Brainwashing is real, regardless of intellect.

[@joejones9520]

I know what the area youre moving to doesnt have...

[@ELXABER]

My family and I left California, 9 in total, over the last 3 years, and here's why. 1: It's a one-party state and will remain that way: Due to the mass migration of illegal immigrants on its open borders and people like Pelosi's nephew Newsom who was voted out of office by a recall with 82%. Aunt Pelosi to the rescue, she kept any other Democrat candidate from running which allowed him to win, again, by 62% only a few months later. 2: Fires and evacuations due to bad politics: They prevent deforestation and will not clear fire roads or public property of waste and dead flora creating a literal tinderbox. 3: Priced out of the state: I made a 185,000 per year salary not including full benefits, 150% 401K match, etc. as a healthcare executive (Yes very underpaid due to my age at the time) with an award from the AMA and retired in 2013, now on Social Security, I could not afford to stay. This is deplorable, and if you were ever seen at a hospital or doctor's office in Northern California between 2005 and 2012 it crossed my desk, so to speak. 4: Massive taxation you will never get back in retirement: As mentioned above at 185k I paid roughly 48% out of my paycheck, about $85,000 a year and now that I am retired I get $24,000 per year with horrible healthcare benefits. 5: They started enforcing medical experimentation: I don't care how many times they redefine the word "Vaccine" to fit their agenda and refused to be genetically modified to remain in my home state. If you want my advice on California, as a resident born there, bail, bail now if you still can. You want an answer to "Why?" the simple answer is "Democratic rule". And since you asked, how far my lineage goes, I am a direct male descendant of high-ranking military officers in the American Revolution. My family has fought in every war since, except Iraq (I was medically disqualified when I tried to join the Marine Corps) and a few of my family names are Rose, Hatfield, and McCoy.

[@hornetguy9063]

This is a scary reality for a lot of people, not just California, IMO. Like the Fed in 2020 calculated that if you're a household whose head is 60-64 (so right around retirement age) and you have $250k of net worth (including your home equity), you are ABOVE average. People are routinely going into retirement with like 1-2 years of current salary total, somehow deluded into thinking that this would be enough to live off. Sure. Maybe if you moved to Ecuador or something.

[@Princeton_James]

Can I ask where you moved to?

[@ELXABER]

@@Princeton_James Texas because I had family here. I will say I like the state and some of its policies, but it has its own problems and the people here seem to be one of them. I have never been scammed so many times in my life in California as I have in two years here in Texas.

[@Princeton_James]

@@ELXABER wow. Thanks for your honesty. That sucks. How are the people trying to scam you?

[@andrewmagee1666]

@@ELXABER Same here in Montana. It was a beautiful beautiful majestic piece of heaven. My Grandpa told many stories of the way it was. In the last 8 years people have moved here in drove (mostly california) and have greatly damaged this place. Because the cost of living was so cheap they were offering double, and it was still cheaper than california. Consequently Montana residents are losing their homes in exchange for higher rent. 4 years ago rent for a 3bd 2ba was $500 mo. Two years ago it skyrocketed to $1200 and now it's 2k for a studio. People started heavily voting democrat about 2 years ago. Forests are being cleared for more houses. Farms/ranches are being bought out by the latest generation that doesn't want to work their family business. To many people want to complain instead of fix and stand their ground. It's down right sickening. I'm not much of a people person. I pray the end is near. Best wishes on your endeavors!!

[@Eden639]

Plain truth! And I live in California.

[@patg3424]

I left Commifornia a few years ago and I never looked back. I was finally able to buy a house this year in Florida and still have extra money for myself. No regrets. I was so sick of living paycheck to paycheck in California while living in a rented dump with high crime and homelessness. I was living in a democrat plantation and I am free of it forever.

[@TheBandit7613]

Florida is so humid, rains way too much. Mold, termites, reptiles. YUK.

[@Lex-Rex]

Florida is a hole.

[@Omegafoxx77]

@@Lex-Rex you are the reason America is breaking up. Americans should be coming together and supporting each other. Not this hating on each other. I'm so sad that many people feel they need to hate the other just because of location. What does united mean to you?

[@ryanpaul5553]

How are you not able to see your own logic turned against yourself? This is why we vote the way we do, your culture is uneducated…

[@violetfem1808]

@@Omegafoxx77 GREAT POST. yes - but I don't unite w/ the other side anymore (outside of a few close friends who still live there who are wonderful ppl & not politicaI actives)

[@TrapperTVFoss]

Born and raised in Northern California. I’m a Fur Trapper, contractor, outdoor enthusiast, KZbinr, and recently a fourth grade teacher. I stay because I still live in a small community in the northern Sierra mountains that I love. It’s hard to leave Lake Almanor. Most beautiful place in the world. Can’t tax me out, can’t starve me out, can’t burn me out. Just remember, some of us are behind enemy lines and are willing to stand up against the left. Now if I lived in the city like San Fran or LA. I would be GONE!!! Couldn’t imagine that craziness!

[@ezyryder11]

Good for you! It is beautiful, and we need you. Cheers from the Bay Area.

[@ezyryder11]

Good for you! It is beautiful, and we need you. Cheers from the Bay Area.

[@scottyoung6252]

@Darren Maples really,?

[@scottyoung6252]

@@ezyryder11 thanks for providing proof that leftovers have others to bring in the 🥓 bacon on their backs while you support dead to the state. Go Go Brandon ! The real Americans who were here first are still on reservations. ?????

[@wed3k]

I'm in lake county

[@erika9115]

Lived in CA for 3 years, I couldn’t take the homelessness, unaffordable prices and government control (masks and business closures 2+ years). Came back to Florida, where life is normal. I guess if you grew up in California, those things are normal. But no, I’m not trying to be poor and controlled. No thank you!!

[@eddycarpenter8989]

My biggest issue is all the illegal Hispanics

[@mikeyKnows_]

I bet you still vote like a Californian

[@Anonymint-vj7bt]

Politics is doomed anyway. All elections will be forevermore rigged. Don’t forget that they tested the rigged vote counting machines to give HEllary the victory over Bernie in the 2016 California Demonrat primary. There is nothing any of us can do about it. What are we going to do storm the State capitols and get arrested for walking on the grass? They’ve been flying illegal migrants around all over the nation to be ready to rig the 2022 mid-terms. If necessary they will create a WW3 false-flag to cancel elections, e.g. sending Pelosi to Taiwan to incite WW3 with China.

[@mustangracer5124]

I was born there ,Cali. rocked until about 1990 when the evil left really got ahold of it. I left there.

[@roselynjessy4814]

I met expert Morrison first time last year at a conference in New York City ,I invested €14,000 and traded in one month making up to €186,000 You can also learn and trade on your own Making million monthly without any second thought of being being broke or poor .I just got my self a new Tesla model car and am moving to Luxemburg city soon with my family All thanks to mr Morrison

[@MSj2390]

Leaving Orange County, CA for Florida. Able to build a home, start our family, have the ability to do things we could never do here. I love CA but every point made here is spot on.

[@isaiahlopez7112]

You need upper echelon skills to live in California. This state is not for you, bye bye.

[@johnnybosox]

I was born in CA and now live in FL. I don’t have a college degree, but earn a comfortable six figure income for a few years now. 16 years with my company working my up the ladder. I own a nice home and I don’t have to struggle. The American dream is possible with hard work in both places but it is sure more difficult when government throws roadblocks in your way. If you are moving here, please take into consideration what makes FL the better choice right now and vote that way.

[@shane864]

No amount of money on earth could convince me to move to Florida, it's an absolute toilet.

[@johnnybosox]

@@shane864 no not really

[@onabrebv]

I lived in Clearwater for 6 years and loved it, top beach in America multiple years, loved my church, loved the people, loved the food, loved not filing and paying for state taxes. But, grandkids had me move back to Kali. Only lasted 5 years - had gotten much much worse, it literally made me want to vomit compared to life in other states. So, moved to the No Tax state next door - still close enough to the grandkids and lots of mountains here.

[@silvermediastudio]

They don't care. They want their "utopia."

[@danielgloverpiano7693]

@w+𝟏𝟐𝟏𝟑𝟖𝟕𝟖𝟒𝟒𝟒𝟕 Floriduh a better choice? Are you joking? The weather is worse, there’s no natural beauty, you have a fascist governor who is treating women like slaves and LGBT like second class. You must love book burning and sending undesirable illegals to other states? I’m glad I don’t have to live under Adolf DeSatan. He’s trying to control everyone’s lives and won’t allow people to have their freedoms. Floriduh is (again) a slave state.

[@Death_Metal_Head]

It scares me how so many are leaving CA (as well as other places like NY, NJ, and MD) and fleeing to decent, family-oriented red areas of the country (such as parts of GA and NC, which are near the city). Yet most of these people migrating fail to realize how it's the politics they supported which ultimately forced them to leave the states from which they hail, and they're going to continue supporting these politics when the arrive from the North or out West, which will ultimately ruin the places they're moving to.

[@DBMac-ji7fr]

I've only noticed that among the wives. Their natural compassion and empathy is well suited to the family, but creates devastation when they vote that way. Short of repealing the 19th amendment, I don't know how to fix that.

[@armandomeza6387]

It’s definitely happening in GA rn

[@DebbyShoemaker]

Blahblahblah

[@michaelnyden8056]

Yes that's what locusts do!

[@rwdchannel2901]

@@sierrasky2491 It's not the adults moving to red states from California that will ruin them. It's their kids that were put into the public school and taught all the left wing brainwashing. When those kids grow up and vote it's a good possibility it'll be democrat and ruin places such as Texas and Florida.

[@gnome2024]

I am stuck in California for now. Part owner of a family biz that makes millions. Sure I can afford multiple homes and I have to get creative with taxes to make it worthwhile but at some point we have all agreed we are going to retire the biz within the next 5 years and move out of state. Crazy though seeing $3500/mo condos being rented out by young kids who seemingly have no jobs to speak of. Many of us are seeing a new tactic by Democrats and that is to move into conservative cities to change elections even at the school board level. My particular city will have a contentious vote for school board members and if all 3 candidates dont win, its game over because the liberals moving in are pushing trans books and other nonsense all over their instagram feeds. We are rising up so it will be interesting to see what happens. I guess all I can say is pray for us still fighting.

[@123space8]

Keep fighting everything counts

[@rwdchannel2901]

You have to fight to keep sane people on the school board or home school or private school at a Christian school that is sane.

[@100mphFastball]

It’s like the invasive hornets taking over the honey bees hive.

[@advantagelearningacademy3802]

The Dem invasion is happening in Bakersfield, CA. The politicians want conservatives to leave or shut up so they can implement more social control that pads their oligarchic powers. I’m over it. Been here over 20 years. Raised my kids in a substandard education system. Have a great career, but can stress less for more peace of mind back home in Texas. I’m ready to go home. Good Bless America. Bless our freedoms and liberties that are a breath away from tyranny and socialism.

[@rahmatansari6623]

Do you know that there is a Herbalist doctor call Dr Ewi1 who have cure form Herpes......

[@mrogersgmt800]

Ive had this same tought for a while now felt like this video is directed at me. My wife and i have 2 small children we recently purchased a one bedroom condo because that is what was most convenient for us. It was either move 1 hour and 20 minutes away from our jobs to live in a decent home built in the 50s. Get into a 2 bedroom apartment nearby paying more then our current mortgage on the condo which is less than 10 minutes away from our jobs and more affordable from an apartment. My oldest son always ask us why we sleep in the living room. My wife and i have decent, stable jobs. But this bs state just drains our wallets when it comes to expenses.

[@lokeman831]

I have lived in California all my life 35 years. I visited my in-laws in Florida a week ago, first time in Florida now my wife and I are seriously considering moving to Florida. It felt like I visited another country. We've decided we are moving to Florida within the next year or two.

[@William0zero0]

Just remember, to leave the blue politics in California. Not too long ago California was once a successful red state.

[@roselynjessy4814]

You can increase the cost of your earning if you could give your self a chance for that I met expert Morrison first time last year at a conference in New York City ,I invested €14,000 and traded in one month making up to €186,000, I just got my self a new Tesla model car and soon am moving to Luxemburg city I have already purchased a house for my family All thanks to mr Morrison We love you Mr Morrison ❣️

[@lokeman831]

@@William0zero0 Roger that! I'm am a Registered Independent and love my freedom.

[@lokeman831]

@@uweporth9337 oh we we're going. I'm a registered Independent and this is the land of the free.

[@lokeman831]

@japanwatchconnection I agree, there is no perfect state but the leadership in Florida is better than others.

[@TRAN305]

WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA, HIGHEST TAXES ,HIGHEST GAS PRICES, HIGHEST CRIME RATE, HIGHEST HOMELESSNESS, I could go on and on, I use to be a Democrat but no I see the Light , I will Vote REPUBLICAN from here on out, People of 🇺🇸 don’t let your State become the Next California. Thank You Pat , keep spreading the Truth👍🫡🙏💯

[@lablunt6190]

California does not have the highest crime rate though........

[@comicrandomness3289]

I'm voting republican too. Hate California. Paid off our home so I'm saving up to move out of here. Somewhere cold where Californians can't follow like northern idaho or alaska.

[@Datacorrupter234]

check out most of LA i dont care what is higher crime, LA is is BAD

[@kaenz18]

@@lablunt6190 but still very high

[@user-cq6dg6ql9j]

Unfortunately, Biden is trying to spread California laws across the US. Many people warned that shit would happen. I hope flip voters are happy with their results.

[@A.Campbell]

I've been to LA twice, 2012 & 2018. The difference was staggering. Can't imagine how bad it would be now

[@eddycarpenter8989]

Some of you guys need to go outside and stop getting all of your information from the media and random people on KZbin. Lol you do realize LA is just one city in California right

[@patienceobongo]

@Carol federal reserve is the cause.

[@Mysticaltyger]

@@patienceobongo The homeless issue is the worst in California compared to any other state.. Something besides just the federal reserve is responsible.

[@patienceobongo]

@Michael Hughes no. Having a central bank in your country is a black hole for the nations wealth.

[@Mysticaltyger]

@@patienceobongo I don't disagree with you on central banks, but you can't blame all problems on one thing.

[@wheatbread2002]

This is no different than living in DMV. No one can afford a home. Rent is insane and homes aren't worth what they are selling for.

[@Bizzy-Bumble1131]

Yes, I am moving to Florida from California. I want a better life for myself and family. I've lived her all my life. As an entrepreneur it's getting difficult to keep up with the costs to have a business and feed the family.

[@55chevytruck]

Please leave your voting ways there.

[@gwanniereynolds7799]

Florida IS DANGEROUS & BECOMING EXPENSIVE!🤔😏😉🤗😅😂🤣👎🏾

[@romanhoax9014]

*Don't destroy FL with your stupid voting decisions*

[@MrSparks54]

My wife grew up in the Valley, a genuine valley girl. She saw the writing on the wall in the late 80s and came to Utah. We went back to visit a couple of times and it gets more and more depressing each time. We won't go back as long as woke idiots infest the state government.

[@kbanghart]

Oh yes Utah the land of Mormons and polygamy 🤣🤣

[@colorocko1]

Not sure I agree with term "idiots" in the woke movement. It's more like a cancer or cult and they seem to know what they are doing to divide and destroy this country and for the most part getting away with what they are doing. Time to fight them back furiously!

[@kbanghart]

@@colorocko1 you can't fight us

[@Datacorrupter234]

plen we cant?

[@kbanghart]

@@Datacorrupter234 no

[@AwokenEntertainment]

as a Californian, this is an eye-opening video 👀

[@antmanv05]

What? You haven't noticed?

[@scottg5588]

@@antmanv05 Unfortunately this is the rule as opposed to the exception. Most of the people there are like the frogs thrown into cold water that don't notice it's getting hot until they're cooked.

[@mabhodlelajj1195]

it would be better if it was eye opening particulalry when it comes to politics side,who you voting for coz that the roots of everything wrong in carlifonia

[@moniquemonicat]

...we escaped California and moved to Tucson 2004 and never looked back. Bought a house in Tucson $113k that would cost $500k in Calif, sold our sportscar and got an SUV, we were able to pay off our house within 5 years. Now we have $0 mortgage and are now able to live in a chalet in Italy with the money we saved. NW TUCSON IS SIMILAR TO SO CAL. Dove Mountain (NW Tucson) is a great place.

[@SamuelClemente7718]

Tucson similar to California. Lol 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂

[@moniquemonicat]

@@SamuelClemente7718 Yep, SoCal is absolutely similar to NW Tucson, mainly I'm speaking about the weather. Think: Victorville, San Bernardino, Palm Springs, and even parts of OC and Inland Empire. So Cal is predominantly high and low desert--with exception of beach and coastal cities. We are both Sunny all the time in both locations as well. Temps are on average only 5 degrees difference of each other. Lots of So Cal is desert climate in SoCal where we moved from.

[@moniquemonicat]

@@SamuelClemente7718 How much of California is a desert? "Covering more than 25 million acres - about a fourth of California is desert. And just happens to be the areas of California that we are from, so when I say similar it is similar. Example: Living in Victorville CA is same climate as Tucson.

[@reubenvlentine]

I'm raising my hand... I'm planning and making moves to leave this failed state. Most people think I'm crazy and I just think "keep your heads buried in the sand, I'm out" Lived here my whole life and everyday I don't see a future more and more

[@nrado91]

Gonna feel safer if you get out.

[@22K562]

Left in 2012 and never looked back doing much better now own a home and a business

[@waterheaterservices]

Left glorious revolutionary humanist socialist people's paradise California years ago. Socialism sucks

[@reubenvlentine]

@@22K562 where did you move to ?

[@michaelsteven1090]

Try something else..You are free.

[@lofivibes3640]

I been in California my entire life. 2020 was a serious wake up call to start working on getting the #### out of here. I never thought I would be put in a situation where I would be told you can't work for state safety. But still expected to pay bills. My stress, and anxiety have never been higher. Working my @@@ off for survival. And it still wasnt enough. The lockdowns we had. I completely lost everything. Credit all f up. Went homeless. Had to make sacrifices of not eating in hopes to try, and pay my bills. I had to cancel my medical insurance. By doing so the state fined me more money. They talk about how the job market is bouncing back. And no it isnt. Yes there are jobs out there. They are just jobs. You need muiltple jobs to survive. Jobs want you to have so much experience. Yet they cant pay you for your experience. With the job market being so bad in my area. Its gotten to the point the damn military is on the table. The state has failed. Im doing everything I can to try and work on getting out of here. High cost of living. High taxes, high ridiculous crime.

[@anotherbystander3888]

the military isn't a bad gig if you're actually homeless. Benefits, pay, housing, never have to wonder about food, travel.... the people you serve with, the pride of serving, the marketability of yourself when you're done are all priceless.

[@lofivibes3640]

@@anotherbystander3888 slowy going back to that route. Jobs continue to demand so much experience for little pay. I went on a interview that was a office job. It was a corporate position security. First interview went great. 2nd one made me laugh. I was told I couldn't get the job for not just having SWAT experience. They wanted SRT SWAT FBI experience. They wanted me to have access to equipment you cant get as a civilian. They seriously wanted me to carry flashbangs and smoke bombs. Jump out of helicopters, and rope off buildings like a Rainbow 6 operator. They wanted me to breach areas in a tactical manner. Im seriously thinking what kind of office is this. I thought I was being pranked. I thought it was going to end up on a website or something. They were dead serious. This was for 35. That level of experience. Those guys make 100 an hour. I keep running into jobs like that in my area. Its either they want unnecessary experience that doesn't make sense. To having military police experience to combat the rising crime. Everyone in my area sees the same issues going on. They are joining the military to avoid the b.s going on.

[@lofivibes3640]

@@anotherbystander3888 I also been on other interviews where they play to many games. 1 company tried to get me to drive 110 miles a day pay for parking on top of that. Another seriously expected me to wait 6 months before starting work. I had to play email, and phone tag with them to get the moat basic information out of them. It turned into a job in itself. The supervisor was also over an hour late as well for the interview.

[@anotherbystander3888]

There are a lot of opportunities in the military, that's for sure. Any company asking you to do something illegal, is pretty much a good bet to stay away from. There are a few small departments out there that are not well known, Department of State Hospitals Police Department. Check them out. Actually a really good department.

[@lofivibes3640]

@@anotherbystander3888 definitely. Unfortunately alot of companies are acting like that. Found out the hard way. Security companies are designed to work against you. Not with you. To get to the better companies that dont try, and break state laws. I need to get that experience. Whats happening right now. Companies are putting people in charge of a supervisor especially that shouldn't be in that role. I seen it first hand with the 4 interviews I been on this year. I got tired of the 🐮💩, and 🐎🐴💩 games these companies love to play. Decided to take the test around December. There are companies out there looking for armed security but cant pay more than 20 bucks. That's completely unacceptable.

[@KiloBravo86]

Left California a year ago. I am understanding why almost a dozen of my friends left and had no regrets. 👍

[@caliindoor]

Oh no! 13 people!! California is ruined now!! If you couldn't hack it, just say so.. There's no reason to lie.

[@KiloBravo86]

@@caliindoor 🙄

[@caliindoor]

@@KiloBravo86 half your problem is thinking that your little bubble of irrelevance is somehow the protocol for everyone. You couldn't hack it here so you went somewhere cheaper. Don't be a liar.

[@KiloBravo86]

@@caliindoor 🥲

[@markwilson9196]

I grew up in Cali and then went into the military, I have to say that I realy missed it. I returned in 1988 to a state I couldn't afford to live in. Sadly, because of raising my own family, I missed many years being able to see my parents because I lived in Florida and just couldn't afford very many trips to see them. My father passed years ago and my (California native) mother had enough of the crazy stuff going on there so she recently moved to Nevada. I guess I will just take the memories.

[@chantalbanon7185]

I left California October of 2021 for the all the reasons you mentioned. I was registered nurse making good money with a decent mortgage could not retire out there. Sold my home moved to Texas with no mortgage after purchasing a house cash from the equity of my California home. Best decision I ever made. But I will say that I do miss the coast and only the coast!

[@euphoricmonk]

I left California May of 2022 for the all the reasons you mentioned. I sold my townhome in West LA for a great chunk of change and bought a 3/2 on 1/2 acre in Austin TX. for 500k. Love this home and love the freedom here. Miss the beach and mountains but I can always travel to those places when I want. Living there was slowing killing me financially and spiritually.

[@standtall7646]

Understood. HOWEVER, you can VISIT the coast! 🙂. No need to get gouged by the democratic party destroying California and AMERICA IN GENERAL. Of course, you'll probably have to bring lots of money if you want to buy anything there. So sad! Many people are stuck there...., for now. BUT, Most Californians want OUT of COMMIFORNIA!

[@shellieperreault6262]

@@euphoricmonk Thank you for helping to jack up the price of housing here in Austin. People like you are why there are people like me trying to leave.

[@euphoricmonk]

@@shellieperreault6262 Wow bitter much? Maybe you work on making more money than attacking people more successful.

[@shellieperreault6262]

@@euphoricmonk Moving someplace from high wages because of a high cost of living to someplace with lower overall wages (same job) isn't success, it's parasitism. And the stench of the entitlement and arrogance of such people can be smelled miles away. Ask any Austinite, that of all the newcomers-from New York, Michigan, Chicago, California- it's the California ones everyone can identify in a crowd because of their arrogance.

[@michaelbowden7695]

I’m born and raised in San Jose , California I moved away in 1990. I realized then, I couldn’t afford to buy a house or even a small property. I now own 2 houses, and my property taxes for each one is less than $300. Per year. I just can’t figure out how people can survive in California. Glad I moved when I did Yes, I live in Alabama now

[@privateprivate1914]

My husband and I did the same thing last year. Ca to Bama and so glad we did. It wasn’t just about money for us. It was spiritual beliefs, politics, family, and money. All of it.

[@isaiahlopez7112]

Alabama lololololol Cmon man, Alabama. lol

[@michaelbowden7695]

@@isaiahlopez7112 yea, Alabama It’s affordable and our schools are safe from lgbtq or whatever you call them And we have some very beautiful beaches

[@isaiahlopez7112]

@@michaelbowden7695 Well, you and your tribe stay over there and we will stay over here. We love this cali life. Salute

[@privateprivate1914]

@@isaiahlopez7112 That’s what I used to think and say about Alabama too. Until I saw it and stayed here.

[@WWTormentor]

I’m one of the few republicans left in the state. Lucky for me, I was able to get a good education and become a physician and make good money. I have recommended and seen many of my family members leave the state. The problem is not leaving the state the problem is not realizing why you’re leaving the state. If you leave the state but continue to support the same policies and same party, you will soon find yourself leaving that state as well. The solution is not leave the state, the solution is change your politics. Change your voting habits. Don’t be a creature of habit and just vote same party over and over again. Don’t vote against someone because social media tells you they are a mean person. Vote on policies and values that you believe in. California use to be the place to be. But thanks to democrats, it has become the hell that it is now.

[@edguyrocks5865]

Well said.

[@TheHaughtyOsprey]

The roaches have scattered. That's all that's happened. It's like when a trashy neighbor moves and all the pests spread to the houses around them. These people moving to other places are just spreading the infection.

[@christinepolacek1116]

Change the Politics ;; good luck with that !!

[@KrukidEstilo2611]

I'm over CA, plan to move with my wife and son to Michigan

[@yurielcundangan9090]

In a world of lies on earth, telling the truth is a revolutionary Act

[@trutacgear]

How do we get the true my friend if there is money involved behind it ..???

[@somiadavis8082]

My fiance and I left California in January of 2020 and moved to Alabama, and it was the best decision we ever made. We actually have money to go do things and can save to buy a house with land for far less than we could have in California.

[@PeppercornFilm]

I did the same thing 2 years ago, in Daphne AL now!

[@quickchicken506]

@bigdickblack1505 Do you LIE much?

[@thisthat7238]

@Big Dick Black Gallup is considered a left leaning organization. So there is no surprise they would have these poll results. People are fleeing California by the THOUSANDS. And what states are they fleeing to? The majority of Californians are going to Texas. New Yorkers are fleeing to Tennessee and Florida. That is more reliable results than any poll.

[@trex2092]

@Big Dick Black I live in L.A. (Lower Alabama) near the coast and absolutely love it here. Baldwin County is the fastest growing county in the state, I work in the school system and can attest to that fact. I live out in the country on acreage and love it.

[@selfdo]

@Big Dick Black Thank your mommy for having bought her house with that basement you blog from back when it was still reasonably affordable.

[@joshualoh499]

One thing that needs to be pointed out: If you choose to leave California, don't vote like a Californian when you go to your new host state, because you will only turn it into the California you left.

[@db-rc5fr]

Most people do not understand cause and effect of their voting.

[@katsinthecradle6155]

Amen to that!!!

[@Lex-Rex]

Voting: The control mechanism by which the elite can gage their brain manipulation success in society. Voting is literally the suggestion box of foolish slaves that demand that a ruler rule over them and everyone else weather they consent to that rule or not.

[@ryanpaul5553]

Why would I leave California when I already own large sums of land in other states? Sucks to be poor communists like you!!! Stay in Arkansas, boomer!

[@scribbles1424]

Scorpion and the Frog.

[@2Oldcoots]

Superior Analysis Sir!! Thank You for helping us to understand.

[@stonecoldswagga170]

Born and raised in Orange County. Moved to Dallas 3 years ago. Bought a 4 bedroom house that is only 5 years old. First child coming in December. Best decision of my life. Fully adopted the policies and culture of Texas. The greatest people on Earth and so much pride for being one of the greatest states!

[@trustyoungpierre9959]

Welcome to Texas! We treat people right! Glad to see your living life here. Wish you all the best

[@PalaniRides]

@@trustyoungpierre9959 : How did your state treat the El Paso Walmart victims? The children of Uvalde? The 27 Sutherland Church members? How many died thanks to your power grid failure? How much of your hi-tech industries hail from California? Need I go on?

[@lindsayschilling8707]

I've traveled to Texas many times on business. I fell in LOVE with Texas - it reminds me of what Commiefornia used to be many, many years ago! I'd move to Texas in a heartbeat: wonderful people, wonderful state. And, NO, I'll Never Vote Blue!

[@mrbubblebuns3994]

@@PalaniRides lol, hater. all that you listed pales in comparison to living in a liberal run city sucka.

[@impudentdomain]

yes I moved to Texas 20 years ago, this place has a way of making you feel like a lifelong Texan in just a short time.

[@juliaanderson6155]

My husband and I fled California with our two oldest children 32 years ago! Never looked back, never regretted it! Where we live is beautiful, clean, peaceful, LOW CRIME!

[@calidag]

I don't mean to sound like a smart ass but is it my bad comprehension or did you leave your younger children behind and only took two oldest kids with you when you fled the state?

[@frankbrun8799]

@@calidag lol you are right, it reads like she wrote that she took her two eldest children and left the younger ones? Wtfffffff?!

[@salomonj64]

You fled? LOL! Like a refugee seeking asylum. That's simultaneously funny and sad.

[@juliaanderson6155]

@Rich Casino yes it's cheap and stable

[@juliaanderson6155]

@@calidag no. We only had two children at the time.

[@reikicowgirl9817]

I’m glad I was able to live in California when it was still affordable. My parents decided to move out in 2000 because they didn’t want to watch their retirement stolen from them. I followed in 2004. It’s impossible to get ahead in California. Finances were constant stress.

[@computron1]

2000 was literally one of the best times to buy a house anywhere in the US. Hindsight is 20/20 but if you bought a house in CA for 150k in late 90s early 2000s, it would be about a million at this time.

[@lemme999]

@@computron1 Definitely overpriced!

[@dclaet1135]

@@computron1 It really depends on where you bought your home in Cali. My home in Fresno was purchased in '97 for $113,000 and is now worth around $430,000. Although, not nearly worth a million dollars, if I tried to buy it today, I doubt that I would qualify. Very over-priced, even here in the Central Valley.

[@FredSmith-s5t]

I got out of commifornia 10 years ago and I'll NEVER go back for anything.

[@nightwing9670]

I was stationed in Northern California in the Navy and lived all over the state during and after my service. The best decision I have ever made was to leave. 18 years and going in the southeast. As many have said, when leaving California leave their failed politics there. Otherwise we will have another state turn into a 3rd world sh*thole.

[@cultusdeus]

So true.

[@pk7056]

total 3rd world shlthole 5th largest economy in the world feeds the USA and makes up 15% of the countries GDP. Developed the very platform we are communicating on. Top rank universities and higher than national average wages. Easier and cheaper healthcare. Taking care of the nations homeless that flood into our state from the other great states. Covid was a fail and over reach but still 38th ranked in covid deaths per capita despite being one of the most populated and densely populated states. Total failed politics based on what metric? Taxes? I thought Trump said "I don't pay taxes cause im smart." So is he calling u guys dumb? i don't get it.

[@Arbiter622]

Ew lemoore is central valley

[@nightwing9670]

No, Moffett, Concorde NWS and Alameda were in the Bay Area

[@whydoeknow3563]

and the u.s. already has plenty of 3rd world sheat hole states.

[@joeeiffert1186]

The reasons you point out are exactly why my wife and I encouraged our daughter and her family to leave as quickly as possible. They went to Idaho, both found good jobs and are doing good. Rent is about what it is here in Cali but what they spend on gas, utilities , groceries and other goods has them able to afford two new vehicles, putting money away for a down on a home and they deal with a huge difference less in crime,worry and stress. They have been there just over a year. And other family and friends who have relocated to other states are finding the same as our daughter. I have one more year in California and we are out of here. Cowards? No, we are not. We just are not as foolish as those who think they can roam a lions den without the lion eventually attacking and taking them down. And California has become a den of lions wearing its victims down until it’s too late! Make a plan if you are staying. Make a plan if you are leaving. But either way you better pay attention to your surroundings and know what’s coming.

[@manictiger]

Remember to vote pro-2a. Don't let Washington's mag ban leak over into your state. This cancer will be stopped and reversed in due time.

[@JacobPAus]

DAMN. Glad they have been able to have a better life. I'm planning to actually move to Puerto Rico to save even more money, I'm in Texas and it's getting expensive here but not like California

[@Dakarn]

The biggest thing I have to reiterate every time I see someone talk of leaving California. If you're a Democrat, don't move to a Republican state and continue voting Democrat. There's a reason you're leaving, and it's because of Democrat policies. Stop trying to turn other states into California, only to leave them again when they turn into another California.

[@marylinda4878]

Thank you ( Dr Ewi1 ) for being the reason I’m smiling today, I still can’t believe I am cured for diabetes with the help of the herbs you send to me

[@samuelhatch8470]

@@Dakarn they are too brainwashed. It's happening in Utah currently. California crime and more homeless here than I have ever seen in the past.

[@josephinelb5735]

What I really appreciate about you is that you force me to think. You force us to plan to strategize to weigh the pros and cons of issues. A thought provoker! Love it!

[@Lavi_407]

Yeah I’m leaving in 6 months✌🏽Just doesn’t make sense financially. And so many “successful” people are actually in trouble financially out here. It’s not even fun anymore…it feels like we’re all facing a looming doom.

[@msjoanofthearc]

Absolutely, my grand-parents arrived here, it was great. But now it's time for me to be a grand-parent that goes elsewhere to start a better life!

[@gcoffey223]

Az... up north more where it's cooler

[@raymondsmith1945]

Your grand parents come here because this country had a system that benefits people who looks like them. Built by by certain people who they oppressed, enslaved and even killed. They came here for the goodies of that system. They also couldn't make the cut from where they are originally from.

[@rockn997]

Go to the villages Florida. That place is amazing

[@rockn997]

@@raymondsmith1945 back when my grandparents came here they didn’t have income tax And all these regulations and fees

[@bruh.7198]

@@raymondsmith1945 how racist and xenophobic of you towards the Latinx community!!!

[@clean-comedy-clips]

This is message for the people of Toronto, Canada as well. Our house prices, interest rates, crime, homelessness and politics make no sense for us to live here.

[@db-rc5fr]

The Canadian immigration policies has had a significant influence on all of those issues.

[@copperheadh1052]

Yes, Toronto has become a hoe-house also : (

[@Mikefngarage]

@@db-rc5fr Been saying that for years. every time I go there. MY wife is from there. all they do is call me Xenophobic. The immigration program is a Ponzi scheme . Show us you have 17500 Canadian and we will give you status. Eventually the money runs out and all you have is people and too many for the economy.

[@kaizersouza1562]

Toronto looks more like Mumbai or New Delhi. The Justin Trudeau government is a joke of the century.

[@Steven-om7ie]

There are a lot of hard working Farmers and Ranchers here in California that have been providing food and sustenance to the rest of the Country and the World for generations. Most of them never voted for and don't support the politics of this failed state. We will continue to farm and ranch here, but there will come a time when we will no longer be exporting. I suggest that those of you who chose to live in climates where you cannot farm or ranch, prepare accordingly.

[@danmartin4813]

Biden just raided the Amish farmers with armed FBI. Next, it will be your farmers getting raided! Biden has become a dictater!

[@fvr12345]

You do know that CA is the most progressive when it comes to climate change? But you’d rather have the politics of Middle America and just watch the disaster unfold. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

[@shawnn7502]

@@fvr12345 Your politics are going to have zero effect on the climate, one way or the other.

[@fvr12345]

@@shawnn7502 You’re right, it’s actually already too late. But yeah I guess we can keep digging the ditch deeper so that a couple of old white guys can keep enriching themselves.

[@shawnn7502]

@@fvr12345 Like digging for the lithium you need for EVs?

[@paulgugger8987]

Imagine you live on a nice street consisting of 20 homes, some rich investor buys 5 of these homes and rents them out to gang members, your neighborhood becomes unsafe and very unsightly. your neighbor decides to sell because it's gotten so bad, nobody wants to buy because the neighborhood has gotten so bad so he has to sell it really cheap dragging the price of the other homes down, the same investor buys it and again rents it to gang members, this continues until he owns the entire street at which time he evicts all the gang members and cleans up the neighborhood restoring it to it's previous beauty. and rents it to good people, and the real estate increases in value. Now imagine big money working with a crooked controlling government does this with an entire state. Just imagine.

[@Mikestheking]

My wife and I left Costa Mesa California in April of this year 2022. One of the best decisions we ever made we bought a house for half the price that we sold ours for not only that our taxes on our property is 1300 a year old property tax was $6,700 a year and any 401K, Investments or IRA's are tax free upon removing them from our account at retirement age. Our HOA dues are $425 a year that's about $35 a month. We are so happy here in Tennessee I feel more free than I have in many years. Great video

[@ZL1Rocket]

Don’t forget about the ridiculously heavy traffic on the 405 and 55 and 57 and 22 and 91 freeways.

[@rubygreby1473]

Sounds wonderful. Are there any hurricanes or tornadoes in Tennessee? Just wondering what the weather can be like.

[@RapIsDeadly]

@@rubygreby1473 The weather can be harsh....I've looked at moving there too but not very weather friendly. Rain, Snow, floods, storms...etc. Also you got Nashville which is one of the most violent cities in the US. If you live in a non black area...TN could be OK. But the blacks there are just as bad as California blacks. For that matter blacks in general are bad everywhere.

[@jeffshadow2407]

@@rubygreby1473 You have hip hop rappers shooting each other in Tennessee with no concern for anyone killed in the crossfire. And, yes, tornadoes.

[@ben8405]

LIFE , i's good for me in Good Ol California. It is warm heregards in So. Cal. After, having lived in cold Wyoming, and coldo Colorado, I came to So. Ca. and made up my mind to stay here. Learning how to managexplain money, is the way to survive. Spend less and pay cash. Never , ever pay interest. Libe within your means, and be free of debt. A debt free lifestyle, is the way to go. It sets you free! Warm weather for me is a must! Good luck!!!!!

[@davidtaylor5204]

I was born in San Diego Naval Hospital, California. I have lived my entire life in San Diego's East County, so not the beach scene, but the Old West, desert rat part of SoCal. I can honestly say, as of the last few years, that I am persona non grata in my own home town. I retired this month, and will spend my first holiday season somewhere other than California. I am not just going to another state, but fleeing Fascism.

[@BrunoDeSoto]

One additional fact that should be mentioned in this discussion, is that California has become a nearly draconian state in how it imposes different laws. Presently, you have a governor that has an overly idealized viewpoint that he can convert the state over to a nearly utopian greenified state. This notion is exemplified in the promulgation that petrol base cars will no longer be sold by the year 2035. The objective of doing this is commendable, the reality does not match the objective. The state has no capacity to sustain that level of conversion. The electrical grid is not even close to being prepared.

[@stanclare7758]

They don't think of what it takes to make their plans law and then when it's law it's to late to think of what it's going to take

[@mark38699]

He is just corrupt our gov, simple as that. Reptile brained people get into gov a lot

[@joe1972]

What does the grid that charges the E cars run off of? And all the mining it takes to produce just one E battery isn't green. Hard to feel virtuous exploiting Africa's resources while hurting the environment there... And what happens when California experiences rolling blackouts? Well one thing not happening is your ability to charge up your car. And not everyone has $60k they can spend on a car either. Telling people they can avoid high gas prices by buying a $60k E car is like telling the homeless they can avoid homelessness by buying a home. 🙄

[@stanclare7758]

@@joe1972 JFTR .. France is firing up its Nuclear Power Plants as they have come to realize wind and solar ain't aint working ..

[@stanclare7758]

And I do know it's hard not to look directly to your own problems, but there is something sinister going on worldwide .. and being the absolute conspiracy theorist that I am , could the last two years have been just a distraction .. all type got to say is I'm going to try to be ready .. 🖖

[@yoshipow3807]

I’m conservative, these weirdos destroyed my state. Giving up my pension to flee this dumpster fire. Working out, updating job certifications and getting any and all surgeries before I leave, starting a new life. By the way, I voted for Larry Elder. I’m 37 and have come to realize there is no way I can afford a safe home in Los Angeles without working 12 hours a day six days a week for the rest of my career.

[@Brian-rs4ug]

I left California thirteen months ago. I was considering getting a U Haul to move my stuff to Colorado. I found out people are moving out of California in groves. U Haul is actually sending their employees out of state to drive trucks back in to California. The cost for these trucks are through the roof for one way out of state travel. I actually ended up hiring a full service moving company for not much than U Haul wanted. When all said and done. (Gas, hotels, food etc)

[@TheBandit7613]

Colorado isn't much better. High prices, bad traffic, road rage, nasty climate. You are 30 years too late. Californians ruined Colorado already. I left 20 years ago.

[@dmb3428]

@@TheBandit7613 this is true, colorado was affordable prior to the 2000s but cali migration to the state drove real estate sky high...some of the small mountain town shops cant find workers because they cant afford to live there and have to commute in....with high gas prices it's not worth it, and now there is a steady migration out of colorado

[@Brian-rs4ug]

@@TheBandit7613 Colorado certainly has its problems and the California liberals haven’t helped matters. Although I didn’t come up here for cheap housing and no traffic.

[@TheBandit7613]

@@Brian-rs4ug I remember when I-70 was last paved, I was a little kid. It was about 50 years ago. The condition is terrible. The gridlock going into the mountains... The road rage. People are crazy. It didn't use to be like that. And the toll lanes on I-70, It's the shoulder of the road! I bought my first house in Evergreen for 130K, it recently sold for nearly a million. The roads did not keep up with population growth. This was on purpose. Governor Lamm, he said if the roads are improved, too many people will move to Co, well, they moved there anyway. So I moved to southern Nevada and the same thing is happening here. Californians are pouring in faster then housing is being built. I'm getting tired of being chased out by idiots and running out of places to flee.

[@TheBandit7613]

@@dmb3428 My house in Evergreen, I paid 130K, recently sold for nearly a million! Utah is filling up, Idaho and Montana not much better. New Mexico is still do-able for the moment. California is infecting the west.

[@Ba11leFieldAce]

I need to add a point to his statement. If you move to Texas or Florida, for the love of God, stop voting like Californians. You'll just make wherever it is you move, exactly like the place you left.

[@georgegravette1132]

You Texans have plenty of your own home-grown liberals. I suggest you write a long letter to Beto, the Castro brothers, Wendy Davis, etc., and tell THEM to stop voting like Californians.

[@janetswitzer5565]

You can take the stupid out of a state but you cannot take the stupid out of the person.

[@cwell510]

I was born and raised here in Northern California (Bay Area) and lived here most of my life but I've see this place take a nose dive over the last 10-15 years and it's getting worse by the year. I'm all for moving out of state to either Nevada, Arizona, or Texas but my immediate family who have also been here their entire lives are afraid to make the move. Every reason that was mentioned in the video I tried to tell them and it just goes in one ear and out of the other. Our rent here is ridiculously high and we can no longer afford to stay here so it's been quite the headache. I'll make sure my family watches this video and hopefully they'll change their mind.

[@joshbanker8743]

Please don't move to Texas we've had enough.

[@4islandbeauty]

I live in the Bay Area as well, almost a decade now and yes inflation and housing is just through the roof. Rent has more then doubled and ugly homes are selling for over .5million! It's beyond insanity

[@BBrolic]

Move East, my beautiful city doesn’t want your Northern or Southern Cali mannerisms here. Thanks in advance! 👍

[@suzannewing7574]

STAY THERE AND FIX YOUR MESS!!! WE DON'T WANT YOU!!!! LIBERALS ARE EVIL!

[@babynieve9612]

Bay area is crazy expensive 😳

[@theextrastuff]

I’m a Californian born and raised and still live here. I completely agree that California has had a series of bad policy making and other stuff. Here is my stance on this issue. If I had to move out of this state, I would choose neighboring states like Nevada or Washington. One of the main political reasons why I don’t wanna move to a conservative red state is strictly because while you do benefit with things like affordability, you sacrifice things like gun control and abortion rights. Texas for example has the weakest gun control and has open carry. Also governor Greg Abbott has weakened gun control in his state so much that an 18 year old can easily walk in and get a gun with no background checks at all which is really bad. Also lets not forget about abortions. Im very pro choice and think its wrong for women to not have the right to choose what they can and cannot do with their own bodies. Many conservatives continue to restrict rights of the LGBTQ and trans community when all they want is the same rights as everyone else. While I do agree that there is 2 genders and men cannot be women, the problem with conservatives is that they actively try to make their existence painful. This is also why Im never voting republican because even though red states obviously have affordable housing and less homeless people, they still actively try to harm our day to day living. So to make my argument short, I’m not playing the blame game here. I want a state that has Good health care, Free school meals, affordability, Gun Control, Guaranteed Abortion rights, LGBTQ And trans rights, and basically more socialism type stuff. California is a great state for its entertainment and stuff like that but obviously we need to call out these corrupted politicians. I firmly believe that if California fixed its affordability and crime problem, then the state would be at least 70% fixed. Thats just my stance and hopefully things improve.

[@jonathanlaforce9465]

At age 21, back in 2008, I enlisted into the USMC to get out of California. I wanted more than just life at a Junior College, working at Six Flags in Valencia, limping along and barely able to pay for gas or a date. October makes 14 years since I raised my right hand, then took my life into my hands and said "I will not spend my life stuck in a single place. I will not spend my life stuck in a state where my rights are trampled. I will not spend my life paying these taxes, these gas prices, and unable to move myself forward." Been around the world twice. Started a family. Graduated college with a bachelor's degree. Got a great job working in Dallas, Texas. I don't have to worry about crime. I don't have to worry about my personal rights. I don't have to worry about excessive taxation. Or homelessness. Prior to the last election, my gas was under $1.80 per gallon, and on some occasions I could even hit 60 cents per gallon. Soon as gas goes back to it's pre-November 2020 price, I'll be doing fantastic. My wife can take the kids to public parks and not worry about being mugged or solicited. My kids have a great school where the staff know all the kids by name, and they receive a quality education. It was worth the effort to leave. It was worth going to Afghanistan. It was worth doing all the things I did, so I could have a better life and my children could have a better future. If Californians would get their act together, they could have a place worth living once again. I don't think it's possible in this life though, because it requires more moral courage than they presently possess.

[@roxmattern60]

They are destroying CA. CA was once a beautiful state.

[@gowestjeff]

Semper Fi and thank you for writing that blank check to Uncle Sam. Freedom isn't free!

[@stevenblackwell4903]

👍 ooorah!

[@milobarden5635]

I also will be a PROUD TEXAN soon. NM is a RED state, but as usual, cheating policys by the dems, keeps it a blue POS.

[@milobarden5635]

Also, I grew up in CA too

[@bradhardisty1652]

I left in 92 for all these reasons..I knew when I left that there would never be a sensible way to ever go back. I was renting in Garden Grove,.California. When I left, I immediately became a homeowner with some actual space. I am now on my 4th home which was the move to Florida in 2017.

[@bradhardisty1652]

Why?

[@jqulrich]

It's so crazy that this video just came up in my feed. Myself and family members decided to move out of California within the next couple months. Literally for the reasons you listed, as well as the policies and insanely poor way the state is lead. From birth til now, I've lived in San Diego. 37 years and I'm not sad about leaving what is truly a failed state that has completely failed it's people. Don't forget that taxes will continue to go up. Especially once they start having to have water brought in due to constant severe droughts.

[@lindakurgan4477]

Please don't continue to vote for liberal/Democrat policies after you move, or you will help ruin THAT state and have to move again....

[@totallysmooth1203]

Once Obiden is tried and executed for treason, maybe America's Democrat enemies wil START to get the message.

[@lindabradford9591]

@@lindakurgan4477 Right! Don't bring it to our state.

[@beccagee5905]

What state are you moving to?

[@abigaildill6009]

What State are you moving to? I also want to move

[@KR_GreySkies]

I live in the bay area. I make a little over 85k a year. I'm married my wife works full time makes a little less than me. We are still struggling. We are renting a 600sq feet home for 2, 600 a month. During covid my wife lossed her job because she did not want to get vaxed. My truck has been broken into 3x in one year. We are surrounded by homeless. I sew people stealing from stores while I'm shopping multiple times. All while seeing people wear a mask driving by themselves. This place is a hell hole and I don't know how to leave, or where to go.

[@bryanproctor2983]

I was born and raised in SoCal. My high school sweetheart wife and I moved out of state last year. We’re retired and 60 years old. We moved to a red state where homes and the cost of living is affordable. Low crime, very little homelessness and people are so much nicer and happier. Two of my three married children want to move to our state with their families after spending some time here. My third already lives here with her family. There is a better life awaiting you outside communist California. My opinion, take it or leave it.

[@OnlythaRealness]

Idaho?

[@paperluboff3450]

You nailed it!

[@bryanproctor2983]

@@OnlythaRealness The best kept secret in the US of A🤫. NW Arkansas! Bella Vista. We love it here!

[@geanitsucuneli4791]

Well Done!!

[@kathysyphrit5713]

Hope you and your family don't sit on your ass and let where you live turn into a liberal area. If so SHAME ON YOU.

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

My family has been in California since 1896. It was hard for me to leave when I joined the Air Force. In 1980 I was transferred from Davis Monthan AFB to McClellan in Sacramento. I dropped my roommate off at his parents home in Redondo Beach and I continued north early the next morning. Coming out of the hills shortly after sun up and starting the downhill out of the Grapevine, the entire Central Valley was laid out in front of me, bathed in the morning's orange glow. Home! I cried. Today... I'm crying for other reasons.

[@artguti1551]

I hear you...born and raised in Carson/Torrance Ca. My Parents (in their 80's) and siblings still live in So Cal. I have relatives that live in Visalia, San Fran and Carmel. I got the hell out of So Cal in 2013...It's gotten worse over the years!

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

@@artguti1551 I saw Clint Eastwood and his pickup in his backyard in Carmel. His house is named Las Ondas.

[@phrewilly8556]

We left California 8 years ago for Texas. Best decision we have ever made! We have a nice home, no state income taxes, low crime, and vacations twice a year! Also, people actually have manners here!

[@MsHarasan]

Have the increase in property taxes been an issue? Thanks.

[@scarletbelmont9022]

@@MsHarasan Rent is going f*cking crazy so I am assuming the property taxes are too. All the dems fleeing to Texas are ruining the market. I am moving back to Texas from NC and one place I looked at shot up $700 in one month! And other places are increasing the rent like $100 every month. I can see when the units are available and the further out for the same square footage/floor plan the more expensive.

[@arvinawotar2357]

Women are also great fun there

[@phrewilly8556]

@@MsHarasan Not really. They have gone up but nothing compared to the high taxes in California.

[@phrewilly8556]

@@arvinawotar2357 Absolutely!

[@christianbrother4724]

What about Northern California? I was looking at reading in crescent City. Those look like nice places safe and affordable.

[@jonbell1193]

A year ago I left that state, the state of my birth after 60 years of trying to make sense of the insanity that took the place over. In the 60'a Cal was a great place. Today it is a turd, literally. I reside in South Dakota now, and haven't been happier in decades.

[@larrysmith6797]

Banging your head against a brick wall for 60 years is hardly a sign of sanity.

[@Profabdesigns]

Atta-boy, your spot on. I am a 3rd Gen native of California. I was born and raised in San Diego, CA. After 57 yrs of seeing the state decline into the crap hole it has become, I moved away. San Diego was an awesome place to grow up. A lot of fond memories of growing up, going into the Navy, then College, and eventually married. But now I will not even go to SD to visit friends. Where did I go? NE Texas, and I now very glad to admit it. I still am conservative, and vote RED! But TX is now shifting too, and most here are already sick of it.

[@malcolmnicoll1165]

You’re…

[@chalinosanchezalv]

You left a democratic state to a state already turning more liberal by the day thanks to Californians like you that leave once the going gets tough instead of picking yourself up by your bootstraps? Atta-boy what a Californian you are.

[@danielboone72]

Just pray Texas doesn’t go blue, or kiss America goodbye!!

[@kjuarez29]

Agree with this, BUT, also welcome the Californians that understand the problems, have an open eye for what leads to them and listen to them. Do not discredit them simply because they are from California. We do the same thing for people that immigrate from Cuba, Russia, China, etc. These people have knowledge and the eye to watch for the BS that can sneak in.

[@susieschilling4009]

Check out hot springs arkansas a real gem! Not to far from north Texas !

[@pbang1776]

Got me in tears Over here, my family has been on the fence and I have been asking for a sign. This was my sign, this shook me to my core to get off my ass and get out of this CA. Everyday we have to look at homelessness and deal with barely being able to put gas in the car and pay the bills. Thank you so much!

[@williamj4538]

Stay. You’ll just be jacking up the prices for others in another state. 🤬

[@impudentdomain]

It is amazing how much crap people will put up with when it trickles in a little at a time. but good for you for finally waking up.

[@mcguinness4742]

Thank you. I agree with your leave or get involved stance.