What is California's biggest problem?

Question

I think traffic problems, rental prices etc.

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

Leftist politics. Democrats control the state at every level with super-majorities and they have run the state into the ground. The cities have been obliterated, with retail businesses having left and homeless drug addicts and shoplifting gangs taken over. Tourism has been destroyed, big tech companies are fleeing and taking hundreds of thousands of job, and leaving behind lots of empty buildings that have no chance of being rented, which means they will quickly become blighted because their owners can't afford to maintain them. Many will be taken back by the bank and sold for a small fraction of its former worth and billions of dollars will just disappear.

All of this means a massive reduction in taxes being collected by the state, but the state's expenses have gone up. It turns out that being soft on crime means that crime explodes and the cost to the cities of policing, jailing, and maintaining damaged infrastructure goes way up. And letting people openly do drugs also comes with massive monetary costs to the cities.

So, who will pay for all this? The taxpayers, of course. Taxes and fees on everything has gone way up and will keep going up.

And so many on the west coast still don't get it. They complain about the problems yet it's exactly the policies they voted for.

Drewtate · Accepted Answer

It's a liberal state that caters for the wealthy at the expense of working and middle class families. It's basically legalised crime and the wealthy elites enjoy security in gated communities.

Taxes are too high, property taxes too high, house taxes too high, wages too low, food prices too high, rents too high, crime too high, utilities too high. Which is why california is having an Exodus.

TsundereMatrix · Accepted Answer

I’m Canadian but I had some colleagues from LA when I worked for an American company and they talked about the rent prices, the crazy traffic and occasionally the heat.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

Their Governor - Newsome. Gee, I wish I knew some (get it) one else to take his place.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

It's poor Governor / people with poor diets die young

ManOnFire · Answer

I think the fact that they are the richest state in the country yet has such a high cost of living and high taxes, and of course homelessness. That makes zero sense to me. When your economy is exceptional it's supposed to be that everything is cheaper and people can afford rent, food, and gas fairly comfortably, and even having a minimum wage job would keep you afloat. But how is it that the richest and second largest state is so outrageously expensive and full of homelessness?

strateguy632 · Answer

All i see is:

tried to distract from fifty thousand ANNUAL invaders without documents just

law ignorer criminals each year, is BIGGEST, AND times 10 years is half MILLION!

27% of California is foreign born HALF undocumented. Source: "ppic organization. "

sure you can list:

problems cracks in streets, filthy sidewalk but BIGGEST is invaders.

Daniela1982 · Answer

Right now a 3 BR and 2 BA house in Orange County is selling for a $million. Who can afford that? And prices on everything are only going to go up. ^^^

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

Proposition 13, which was passed in 1975 and mandated a referendum should a tax be proposed. Since there were LOTS of racist Ronnie Ray-Guns -supporting older folk there who didn't want to vote to improve schools and other services for POC, these greedy, bigoted geezers voted down almost every tax proposal for DECADES, allowing "the Golden State's" infrastructure and education, along with other services to decline year-over-year, leading the California's current dystopia.

Anonymous · Answer

From what I can tell, it's either the zombie apocalypse of homeless junkies or the insane crime issue that's come with decriminalizing crime. In third place I'd put the fact that the state burns down every year since they seem to have completely forgotten how to do forest management.

Unap0logetic_ · Answer

Between the high cost of living and the crime, I don't know what’s worse… Our laws give more protection to the criminals than the law abiding citizens. It’s a complete joke.

DrPepper12 · Answer

Having 40 million people and only having two senators. It's a disgraceful travesty and yet another example of our Constitution being a suicide pact.

Wyoming: 290,000 people per Senat
California: 20,000,000 "

WindAtMyBack · Answer

They built a bunch of big cities. Get rid of all the cities with over 50K people and it would be nice.

Anonymous · Answer

that they keep voting in incompetent leaders that make everything worse and yet fail to see how they got to be so bad even people from the other side of the world would rather visit any other state due it its horrid reputation

exitseven · Answer

Most of the people that live there vote democrat.

Fireguy17 · Answer

all of the fruits and nuts out there. including their politics.

noohair · Answer

Californians are the biggest problem. They vote for the same party over and over and expect change.

ChicoFromThe305 · Answer

That's a hard one, all I know is that unfortunately California is the US's problem

onedarkcloud · Answer

The local government. Assholes with delusions of grandeur and thinking they know it all when they know nothing.

Still-alive · Answer

Water shortage and homelessness would be at the top

AviatorTom · Answer

Too many to name.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Californians.

MisterWack · Answer

Shitty drivers & rude people.

Dargil · Answer

Democrats

Bricealan · Answer

Governor Nuisance

lisafkit79 · Answer

Lefist democrats and high taxes fk them all

OtterMan68 · Answer

High cost of living

paledreams · Answer

It doesn't elect left wing enough democrats 🔵

Dongie · Answer

It's their politics!!

Anonymous · Answer

Gavin Newsome and his braindead supporters

nawtee_me · Answer

Fires and cost of living.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Apparently too expensive.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Definitely the traffic

Anonymous · Answer

It's poor administration

Agape93 · Answer

Cost of living

Anonymous · Answer

Feminism and lgbtsndisnstak

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Poor leadership

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Wildfires

PrettyCrumblBb · Answer

The liberals

Kathryn1993 · Answer

Too many people.

Anonymous · Answer

The homeless

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