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Fantastic. Leave. Because we cannot build housing fast enough.
I've had a number of friends leave California in the past five years and it's rather interesting. They all left for political reasons - they are all Republicans. For some reason they all flock to the same place - Tennessee. A number of my friends moved out there.
One of my friends couldn't wait to move out there. They liked everything about Tennessee. They liked the old houses, the people, the food, the weather.... A year later they moved back. Old houses means lots of problems. They also missed the food from California - they said it was impossible to get good Mexican food or burritos in Tennessee. The weather was a huge issue for them. Seems Californians have a hard time adjusting to so much rain and of course they hate the humidity. Then... There was the people. They started to make friends and had a few dinner parties and suddenly their new found friends started to blow them off... Their daughter came to visit them with her husband who is African American and that upset a lot of their new friends....
Another friend is a real estate agent who moved their entire business to Tennessee. Real estate agents work off of commission and houses are a lot cheaper in Tennessee... So he makes a lot less money. His wife is Hispanic and it seems no one there is willing to hire a Hispanic; She also took a huge pay cut. Now they can't move back.
I've lived in red states and I've lived in blue states.... I've never walked out of my door and thought to myself I cannot live there because of the politics. (I left Arizona because the weather there was fucking unbearable.) I'll never leave California again. It's going to be 82 degrees here with a perfect breeze. (It was 100 degrees yesterday.)
If people want to leave... Then leave. Like I said we cannot possibly build houses quick enough.
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