Why California Is Shrinking

California is one of the fastest-growing states in America. So why is the Golden State losing hundreds of thousands of residents each year?
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[@crow6676]

Please for the love of all that’s holy, don’t vote like you did in CA in another state you move to.

[@flybynight7984]

Of course they will. It's in their nature to 'fix' things.

[@garryrichardson4572]

@@flybynight7984like Mao fixed China with the Great Leap Forward.

[@troyb3659]

They will vote exactly the same 100%. Ask a fleeing california why he moved and you will see that I'm correct.

[@thomasmills3934]

They will. That's what they do. But as a former liberal from Chicago, I can say that my politics changed after I moved down to NC. But that had way more to do with Covid and censorship than it did being down south...

[@Nperez1986]

In the words of Yellostone " Don't bring your BS failed policies here"

[@pattube]

As a native Californian, virtually all the good and glorious things about California mentioned at the beginning of this video were done by past generations of Californians. Not current generations (including our Boomer governor and other politicians - we've been a one party state for a very long time now). We're living on our ancestors' dreams and visions for California, which were what made our state so great for a time, but today our leaders are killing the dream. Like a luxury car running on fumes or even ready for its engine to blow up.

[@dogdays4923]

Newsom was born in 67. He's a Gen Xer not a boomer.

[@Svensk7119]

​@@dogdays4923I've never liked Gen-X. I am Gen X-WING. That was our War. I also decline to include Mr. The Hon. Newsom in my generation.

[@beenschmokin]

The year you were born is irrelevant. California was never for the hard working person. It was always a giant cash grab by the super rich. Enslaving normal people to build their empire. They had to steal the water from where it was so the elite could have fountains in their yards and grass where nature made a desert. Southern California is a testament to the hubris of man.

[@factsoverfeelings1776]

Our Governor is NOT a "boomer". He is way to young.

[@pattube]

Apologies, especially to any Boomers here! I didn't realize Newsom isn't a Boomer. I'm a millennial and made the wrong assumption. Maybe I can blame my generation's poor quality of education. 😉

[@GBPaddling]

We can all disagree as to why this is happening, but surely we can all agree that it is all 100% deliberate?

[@Real_Question_Marked]

Yeah, because Newsome, like Cuomo was and Eric Adams is, are sociopathic narcissistic elitist snakes who distract the masses with classism while engaging in their own corruption.

[@tammycornejo9155]

Yes we can

[@atatterson6992]

No, we all know why it is happening, the man just explained it and NOBODY can argue anything he said is wrong.

[@myhnea92]

It's called socialism, that's what happened.

[@gracec1665]

How is it possible that this governor is STILL THERE?

[@geraldholt2755]

Depends on who you ask. Don't forget Newsome is Pelosi's nephew.

[@Pa-we1lw]

They count the votes.

[@dogdays4923]

How?

[@tridelltransportation3603]

@@dogdays4923one dumbass at a time

[@melainewhite6409]

Election fraud. California has mandatory mail-in voting. If you vote "in person" they simply put your ballot in a bin to be "counted" with the rest at night in secret. Can't be any more obvious.

[@almunoz9088]

You nailed it! I was born and raised in California but left a few years ago and never looked back! 😊🙏🏽

[@monkeytron5k]

I left in 2018 becasue even with two jobs we could only afford a two bedroom apartment.

[@joeywever9194]

I am an immigrant from the Netherlands and I moved to California 4 years ago. seemed a good idea at the time, it is truly terrible what happened to this beautiful state between the time I visited as a tourist and the moment I became a permanent resident. I joined the US ARMY shortly after I moved in and was moved to a more enlightened part of our country. A place where we use common sense which turns out is no longer very common. I proudly served for a couple of years now and I'm currently working on getting my citizenship and when I do you'll have my vote whenever you realize we need you as president.

[@PatrickKQ4HBD]

Thank you for your service and for joining our nation. We're glad to have you here.

[@goose6604]

Why did you move out of the Netherlands to the US?

[@joeywever9194]

@PatrickKQ4HBD thanks Patrick, I have felt welcome here since the very beginning. America and Americans have been very welcoming to me.

[@yeboscrebo4451]

How do you join the army without being a citizen? That sounds crazy that that could even happen

[@joeywever9194]

@yeboscrebo4451 I thought so too, but it was not a problem at all. It's just that I couldn't be an officer until I am a citizen and there are MOS with certain security clearances that are impossible for a non-citizen as well.

[@pattube]

As a native Californian, I frequently debate in my own head whether I should leave for a better state (e.g. TX, TN) or stay and fight as part of The Resistance. 🤔

[@robinlanyon3709]

3 of my brothers live there, but all live in small towns. The attitude in those places are much more conservative.

[@apriltini]

Leave. The fight is lost. It's been lost for years.

[@alexpacino1]

Leave. We don’t want you here. More real estate for the rest of us

[@melainewhite6409]

Leaving is how you fight.

[@chrisbertrand5878]

Oh, and are you also going to hold back the tide? How about stop the wind with your bare hands? Good luck to you.

[@burnerjack01]

So many people are leaving, that U-Haul named Gavin Newsom Salesman of the year. “Get ‘er done Gavin” they call him there.😂

[@Tential1]

I just experienced this. My neighbor tried to get a uhaul, 4k in California. 800 in Arizona. Lol. So many people are leaving, you have to drive to get uhauls

[@Nylon_riot]

There are also train packages that help you move around, car included. I looked into that when I was making a cross country move.

[@crocholiday]

Years ago, I had an opportunity in CA and was looking into what it would take to make it happen. I was surprised to see how cheap it was. I just checked to see how much from OR to Burbank... $463 for the biggest truck. Burbank to OR... $1940!! I'm almost surprised they're not offering to pay to me to bring the truck down lol.

[@cdstoc]

I came to California in the 1970's and it's unrecognizable now. Amazing how San Fran got cleaned up for a foreigner after years of neglect. A similar thing happened in Los Angeles a few years ago when they briefly cleared all the homeless folks from downtown so they couldn't be seen during the Oscar broadcast.

[@tammycornejo9155]

FOR CHINA!!

[@k9er233]

And they just recently did it again in the capitol city before filming a Hollywood movie with a big 'star'. Disgusting.

[@tklrrbccar3906]

Born and raised in California. After 60 years of crime, crazy taxes, government interference in everything I begrudgingly left. Not a good place for a Christian, white, single, straight male to live in. Too bad. I loved California. The California I knew is gone.

[@RandalHebert]

We are a 6 figure income couple and had very little saved and not much cash lying around the preverbal". '...don't have $500 for an emergency" that was us. The big thing was debt all kinds of it, cars mortgage (although our home isn't a high price one), student loans for our kids, and of course credit cards. One day we just got sick of being broke and went total scorched earth and became frugal overnight. Paid it all off, it took almost 5 years but now we have no debt and this year our savings rate is 50% on basically the same income that had us perpetually broke. So for us it is mainly staying out of debt and watching our spending, at first it was a real effort to save in our HISA and 401Ks but now it's actually fun watching our money grow. No car or vacation or neighborhood is worth being broke or financially unstable.

[@GaryWinstonBrown]

Congratulations on taking the steps necessary to get yourself out of the financial bind you were in.

[@Seanmirrer]

Facing your medicine can be difficult. However, with commitment, you'll ultimately reach a highly satisfying place. It's all about the actions you're willing to take.

[@RandalHebert]

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[@RandalHebert]

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[@RandalHebert]

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[@araimis]

Native Californian and I left for WA State for a job but ultimately left there for TX as things started to get worse and you could see the writing on the wall that CA was where it was all heading. Although I frequently miss my San Diego, I miss what it was. We LOVE TX, vote Republican down the line and very much aware of the shit policies that have taken those other states down. If you are considering leaving, I will say that moving is never easy, and many places will require compromise to some degree (ex. I hate TX summers, but I embrace them because I hate even more, an additional 14% income tax on top of everything else). We LOVE Texans in general and you may find it's far more diverse here than in CA or WA, in a positive way, not that shit they spew. We are all from different places but ALL love and are loyal to what TX is and can be. I'll leave with, if you do come here, do not vote the way you have been voting. If you do, stay away, we don't want you. If you are for conservative and basic American values, please come.

[@bdnnijs192]

If you don't mind me asking. Without simply blaming 'the other team' what exact legislation led to these problems?

[@selohcin]

@@bdnnijs192 Democrats' soft-on-crime and "yes to illegal immigration" policies are large parts of what have led to the downfall of blue states, not to mention the horrific DEI stuff.

[@themightykabool]

​@@selohcin woke, the border, and crime. Foxnews much? People leaving the most populated state. Say it with me. People leaving the MOST POPULATED state. One more time The MOST POPULATED STATE has reached a population capacity and people are leaving. So those who have transferable jobs and the capitl to move decide to either become homeless or move to another state.

[@CanTho2022]

I lived here I Houston, Texas since 1975….came over during the War in Vietnam. Welcome to TEXAS

[@echochamber4420]

Gas is below $3 in many states. That was plenty of reason for many people.

[@elultimo102]

A San Diego interview elicited the response: They may also be leaving "due to the draconian gun laws."

[@yeboscrebo4451]

My family has operated a business in sacramento for decades. The government overreach during covid was the last straw. You can’t run a business in this state anymore. If you can’t forecast and make appropriate decisions because the government could swoop in at any time and start telling you what you can or can’t do, you aren’t able to take the risks necessary to grow your business. It isn’t worth it. We’re outa here this spring.

[@VegasViking420]

On behalf of all other 49 states, to any California's moving out of California: YOU MAY NOT BRING CALIFORNIA OR YOUR CALIFORNIA ATTITUDE WITH YOU.

[@michaelhuling9040]

I’ve lived in Southern California since 1986 when the Navy brought me here! Raised my children here. I love it here! So many things to do and enjoy! However, that being said, the one party domination by Democrats and their woke policies have turned this once great state into what I know call Commiefornia! It’s sad!!!

[@trs8696]

I've been in and out of San Fran for almost thirty years. It's tragic what the place has become. It's very much like that Hemmingway quote about going bankrupt: "“Gradually and then suddenly.” Twenty years ago, you could already see that San Fran had a problem with homelessness - evergrowing numbers but with no real solution or plan. But in the past five years, it has rapidly accelerated from problem to catastrophe. And now the only plausible solutions are also very, very ugly.

[@incurableromantic4006]

I read a Quora thread once on - "Why California's cities in such a mess?" And the best response I saw was, "Because people here care more about transgender bathroom laws in Georgia tan they care about their own streets being filthy and crime ridden".

[@BradThePitts]

Nobody seems to mention that a major factor is countless Californians have hundreds of thousands of dollars - or even millions of dollars of EQUITY in their homes that will simply go further in other states.

[@dashsocur]

Yep, I live in an area that is overrun by California expats. About half of the company of 20 people I work for and 60-70 percent of the church I attend all moved here from California in the last 10-15 years (at least half of them in the last 5). Housing prices more than doubled in less than a 18 months and yet they kept coming because it was still "cheap" compared to where they were coming from. (Never mind that a lot of locals had to move out of the area just to find something they could afford.)

[@ralphjessee2688]

Exactly

[@nolaspeaker5656]

If they can still sell their houses at those prices!

[@anthonymorris5084]

Excellent video. This is the height of government incompetence.

[@petervanderveen2340]

It's not really government incompetence, it's citizen incompetence

[@NoOneYaKnow666]

I lived there in the 70's. Always had fond memories of it. I wouldnt recognize it now.

[@melainewhite6409]

My crime victimization rate in California has been 16 times elsewhere. And in California and as elsewhere I've lived in good places. But in California they actively import and suborn criminals. Also, reporting crime gets you treated as the criminal in California.

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

If you elect communists your state turns to s, couldn’t have seen this coming 😂

[@personnesenki4521]

I'm no fan of communism, but even communists in China or the USSR could do a better job than the ones who win office here.

[@babstheicequeen]

I was smart enough to leave when they thought putting Moonbeam back in charge in 2011 was a good idea...😊

[@alexpacino1]

Thank God you’re not crowding the freeways

[@rbwirth12]

What's funny is that Jerry Brown wasn't that bad when you compare him to the politicians that are there now.

[@davidcox3076]

Non-Californian here. But I had the same thought as you back then. And it hasn't gotten any better.

[@ChrisTopher-vs9zz]

Super thumbs up! I live for almost 50 years and the peoples Republic of California. Your video should be required watching for every American who genuinely cares about his or her or her country!

[@jcmount1305]

San Francisco has turned Potemkin Village.

[@JI814]

Invite the third world = become the third world.

[@batterylabs4187]

We all know why, ...Gavin

[@fraybart]

"Only when a foreign dignatary [a genocidal, communist one] comes to town."

[@petervanderveen2340]

We love communists here

[@gerardbryant1445]

As you vote, so shall you reap!

[@thanksfernuthin]

He's not a foreign dignitary you silly billy! He's their future overlord... they hope.

[@foobar1735]

You forgot the fact that they had to pass a new tax on gas to pay for fixing our ridiculously terrible roads. Why? Because the gas tax ALREADY IN PLACE that was supposed to go to pay for fixing the roads? Yeah that dumped into the general fund, which of course gets plundered on a daily basis. So not only do we not get what our taxes are SUPPOSED to be paying for, we have to pay MORE taxes because the "government" is wasting our tax money and not using it for what it's specifically supposed to be used for.

[@jasonh.8754]

When the 'good' people start to leave (however you define that term), things go downhill fast.

[@antonbakker2475]

So true! I left California a few years ago after 20 years and it only got worse

[@apriltini]

The Bay Area includes Solano County. Property owners are paying an additional parcel tax for Bay Area wetlands reclamation or something, so it needs to be included in the numbers.

[@Real_Question_Marked]

Maybe it has something to do with the mountains of human feces, popularity of cop hatred and violent crime mobs. But what do I know, I didn’t go into college debt.

[@thejedicounciloffical]

California is an example of what extreme liberal policies do to society.

[@OscarSchneegans]

Californians will keep voting for more of the same.

[@worldobserver3515]

That's because the Democrats count the votes.

[@stvargas69]

But I heard even though SF cleaned up, they couldnt get rid of the smell.

[@johnbroussard3666]

This will continue. Latest estimates are that California is now 58 billion over budget. The Democrat super majority will go straight to higher taxes, which will cause even greater flight.

[@airtexaco]

Grew up there. Greatest place to be until about 1992. Thats when I noticed a change. Joined the air force to see the world and got sent 45 minutes away from home in CA. Base closed right after first Gulf War and we got orders to NC. Didnt come back to CA for another 6 years and was there for 6 more years... It was still "normal" until going back to the east coast. Where people were nice, I could afford to buy a house and was green. Not the hostile brown desert that the perennially drought ridden hell hole that CA actually always was. The people I grew up with were wonderful. I lived in the fastest growing city in the country, CA was the fourth largest economy in the world... Now it is a clear example of what too much government control can do to a paradise. Let that be a lesson and like the others have said, do not abandon your socialist paradise and come to our nice red states and continue voting for socialists. Get a clue or at least have some sympathy for your fellow human beings that want to be just left alone to live their lives.

[@veden3383]

Too much corporate lobbying and corruption, this has nothing to do with socialism

[@kevinblackburn3198]

You are a National Treasure

[@LT_Silver]

The Caliornians have done this to themselves. They voted for who leads the state

[@mrm4sherman271]

I can’t sympathize to much with Californias. They had a chance to recall Newsom and instead dropped the ball

[@FrederickTheAnon14W]

Leftists will always do this, It's this compulsive and obsessive tick that they have that compels them to "Vote Blue No Matter Who!" even when time and time again it has proven to be failed politics.

[@worldobserver3515]

Democrats counted the votes.

[@petelavelle7987]

I voted to recall him! Just out voted by all of the Libs! We're in San Diego County and are considering moving out. This used to be Paradise 😮😢

[@sethlitwin9135]

When I moved to SF in the early 90s, fresh out of college, I walked to the civic center where city hall and the symphony, opera house surround a pretty grass field, which was then inaccessible due to the 10ft high chain link fence that surrounded it to keep the homeless out. The area was ugly and deserted. I couldn’t believe this is what the center of a supposedly great city looked like. Whether it was then the Republican former police chief mayor or now the Democrat business crowd, these problems have always existed. Ofc then the tech boom happened, and some things got better and some got worse. I left bc it got more expensive and more boring. It is still beautiful and people will still move there.

[@groverearp2600]

I can't speak for other parts of California, but here in San Diego county, new housing is being developed EVERYWHERE ! Apartments , new single family homes and schools going up all over the county.

[@Splattertube]

Admittedly, I'm praying about leaving, too.

[@RogueA.I.]

People of California, I implore you. Do not come here. Fix your mess and bring your once beautiful state back to greatness.

[@BuilderBob1]

They keep coming to Idaho and the housing market has about tripled here since 2006 and I will have to leave Idaho where I was born and raised just to afford a house because of the communists flooding in from their broken-government state, while still bringing their socialism with them!!!

[@RogueA.I.]

@@BuilderBob1 That’s awful.

[@bobporch]

Yes but California is creating lots of jobs: Driving empty UHauls back to the state so that more people can leave

[@winstonmiu]

I was in San Francisco in September. I can relate to the chaos described.

[@user-zq4zi3dy3c]

There were hundreds of reasons why I moved out of commifornia 10 years ago. I have saved $100,000 since.

[@trex5878]

Its like when you have company over and hide all of your trash in the closets. It was never meant to be a long term fix, just a facade.

[@absolutecrypto95]

Thank you Nick for saying the truth when is gavin going to be voted out cmon Californians we can do better

[@Magneticlaw]

Id leave San Francisco too - people making 90K living in tent communities, or Los Angeles, where just to walk into Gold's gym you must walk past many tents on the sidewalk.

[@HyperKilljoy112]

I noticed and experienced this when APEC happened last year. It’s like all of a sudden the government made sure to clean up the place before the guest arrived. It’s a shame how we can’t keep the status who even after the guests left. It’s as irresponsible and I put off cleaning my room until the day I am expecting guest to come over, and that’s is because I’m busy trying to make a living and keep my sanity under all this chaos.

[@ralphjessee2688]

Sad but true.

[@glasslinger]

Newsom looks at this as a benefit! "The riffraff is being dumped out!" Ha, ha, ha!

[@electosiziphus9346]

I don't even live in the USA and this saddens me.

[@scpnoobers]

This is all true. No facts left out. Great job

[@TheGavric]

Wait, wait, wait...lemme guess...overbearing governmental agency? Nailed it!

[@whitelion1284]

Ever wonder if the declining population and plummeting property values... is exactly the point?

[@andrewamell4965]

Well a bigger thing is that Cali is expensive, but also leaves Californians with more buying power. If you have generational wealth via real estate your home for just property value can buy you alot more space elsewhere. In addition California has a Mediterranean climate which means that it is probably the most pleasant place to be homeless based off of just weather and climate. Homeless people from other states will save to get a trip to CA because its is easier to cope with the weather here than in other states

[@Nellis202]

It was California dreamin …. We all started screamin ……. 😂😊😂

[@stabakoder]

Mic drop moment

[@itsthe1nonlyme870]

This is all FACT and is absolutely amazing that Californian's Dem's will CONTINUE to vote for this!! Do the same thing and hope for different results....we all see how well that's worked out! COME ON!! PULL YOUR HEAD'S OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA BS!!

[@beachlife3772]

Go from California to Oregon please...

[@beesteboy711]

Only 600,000??

[@douglasstrother6584]

"Sanctuary State" consequences.

[@klaede9666]

This'll be the next Detroit

[@forkoffgoogle]

Why is California stinking? Didn't you see the "Poop Map" Gov. Ron Desantis had when he debated Gov. Gavin Nuisance?

[@roddycreswell8613]

The answer is simple, the policies of "elected" officials.

[@factsoverfeelings1776]

roughly 40 million people in California today. That is more than the entire country of Canada. Shrinking? Maybe but not by much.

[@deadon4847]

Gavin Newsom - U-Haul's employee of the year.

[@Steve-0220]

At one time UHaul charged to rent products OUT of the State only 1 state away than it did to rent trailers from the East Coast TO "the Land of Fruits & Nuts."

[@harrybaals2549]

The SF hipsters probably like it because it gives the city a more "rustic" aesthetic

[@triel77]

Nick, you nailed it. As a resident of Sacramento CA for my entire life, I can say it wasn't always like this. I blame Newsom and my own idiocy for believing in the left for so long. I know I'm not the only one that is feeling like a fool.

[@hankrearden20]

I would add to that, greed. And not just the government. Everyone seems determined to get rich. This second, right now, with as little of an effort as possible. Even with inflation driving up prices to ridiculous highs, people still think we all have money to spend on them.

[@LanceTobey]

We see these claims of people fleeing California all the time, as if that's a bad thing. The state is overpopulated and if people want to leave to go somewhere else, then they should absolutely go. More of everything for the rest of us.

[@jackykimes]

Boom!

[@patrickcarleton3924]

Born and raised in California. I'm a conservative Republican who's sick to death of what politicians have done to our once great state. It's past the point of no return. Moving out asap.

[@nolaspeaker5656]

Politicians!

[@mchume65]

It is only the climate and the geography that keeps me here. I don't want to live in a cold climate. Raised in Minnesota. And I hate humid climates.

[@alexpacino1]

Stop complaining then

[@jmuise2704]

You think it’s shrinking now, wait till the big one hits and most of it slides into the pacific.

[@justinvanburen8259]

Damn, I’m surprised more people aren’t leaving California, or standing up to the politicians is demanding to clean up the city.

[@worldobserver3515]

And now, people making a decent living are required to pay the electric bills of poor people. Such bs.

[@user-ts4fo9ol9x]

This is the first and only one of these California videos wherein the narrator did not dance around the real issues, nor try to gloss them over. Honesty is the best policy. All the rest of these seem to be trying to gift wrap a garbage pile.

[@bryan81584]

TO make matters worse, those californians seemingly haven't learned anything from the failed policies that drove them to neighboring states.

[@theclowninghasbegun3442]

To America it is shrinking, to other countries its free real estate

[@argus1393]

The New Jersey dream is over too.......

[@kirkwcowgill]

Why does your editor show a city hall building when you're talking about the state government? Show the state capitol in Sacramento.

[@JohnnyJohns-eb9qb]

All we need is one - just one - MASSIVE plate shift, then Californicate will be where it belongs.....a part of Canada!

[@jonslauter2932]

Why isn’t Nick Freitas running for President!!!!

[@lisashapiro4714]

And the rents to high

[@MrSnazzy682]

People are moving in though

[@user-uq4hh1xh3y]

shame

[@Law19157]

What an Egregious offense.

[@jasonthamos69]

Governor nonsense is the big reason