California - The Not So Golden State

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California native here.

Here we have what we call "sanctuary cities" where we allow illegal immigrants to live like normal people, excluding the fact that they came here illegally.

The college I'm going to is currently allowing said immigrants to come and study here, and they talk about how they won't let Trump's policies divide us.

I guess the nicest thing I can say about it is that the part I'm living in has plenty of trees and is absolutely beautiful during certain times of the year.
 
i've lived in CA for most of my life, i've gone to high school here, college, worked, consulted, and now own a business here. it's a great piece of land with wonderful people... if you sent all the big cities to the bottom of the Pacific or burned them to the ground. the local government, barring a few exceptions, is out for control. the state government is out for power and to further their party's agenda for virtue signalling and pet projects to line pockets. it's such a mess.

Barbarella said:
California makes you register for ammunition and are about to limit you.
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eh... to be more detailed, on top of having some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, CA has recently passed "Gunpocalypse" which effectively infringes even more heavily on gun rights. the ammunition thing is three fold:

1. by Jan 1st of 2018 all ammunition must be transferred through or bought from a CA authorized ammunition vendor (who must jump through several hoops for the privilege of making next to no profit on ammo) barring some narrow exceptions.
2. by Jan 1st of 2018 bars importing any ammunition into the state unless you are an authorized ammunition vendor or otherwise exempted.
3. by Jul 1st of 2018 you must undergo a background when purchasing any amount of ammo. you pay the normal rate for this which if it's similar to the DROS schedule will be around $5 or so. if it's an entirely separate schedule patterned on the DROS, it'll be like $19. there was talk of a yearly $50 permit as well.

this says nothing of the new registration requirements, new magazine ban, 80% manufacturing requirements, storage requirements, reporting requirements, lending requirements, or the more recent by laws like the lead hunting ammo ban or the duplicate magazine kit ban.

and all this while gun-runner Yee tries to export guns to terrorists and gets a slap on the wrist while the tax payer pays for his imprisonment, his failed legal defense, his campaign funds from his failed election bid, and after he gets out he'll get his pension and has a cushy job lined up in real estate.

Brown's HSR legacy project is another bit of insanity, not to mention the ever creeping, aging, and expensive BART system. then there's the drought, the fires, the gangs, the poverty, the safety issues with building codes not being respected, with riots, with sex trafficking, with sheriff's that play politics more than policing their county's. the list goes on into infinity.

the state has been borderline bankrupt for decades - everyone is fleeing and only the wealthy and the impoverished are staying. so you're either living paycheck to paycheck in some of the most expensive real estate outside of Tokyo and NYC, you're a wealthy liberal properly distanced enough for this to never meaningfully impact you, or you're struggling to not die/be homeless every month.

don't even get me started on the headaches of running a business here, or manufacturing things. about the only things profitable here are services (network, banking, research) where the prime export is knowledge or the service, not material. and even those are fleeing to TX or OR or NV or AZ. CA is going hit a wall at some point and i don't even know what will happen. probably bail out of some kind or selling off state assets and halting projects, leaving them to rot like the intrastate system.

also all those SJW and crazy people you read about on LJ/Twitter/FaceBook/Reddit that live so far out of touch with reality that it's unbelievable? they live (or imagine they live) in CA, because people like that are quite common around the major population centers. more normal folk tend to be inland.
 
I read a few articles that suggest in some counties in SoCal, the hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of unpaid anchor baby births due to the prevalence of illegal birth tourism hostels run by/for the Chinese. So between that and the illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities who don't pay hospital bills or taxes either, sounds like the health care system over there is probably running at a deficit too.
 
millais said:
I read a few articles that suggest in some counties in SoCal, the hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of unpaid anchor baby births due to the prevalence of illegal birth tourism hostels run by/for the Chinese. So between that and the illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities who don't pay hospital bills or taxes either, sounds like the health care system over there is probably running at a deficit too.
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Chinese Birth clinics and anchor babies are a thing; it's not just the Hispanics, though they are most visible and imposing. I like Chinese and Chinese girls, do I welcome an influx of them. Being surrounded by Mexican hippos is a very depressing thing, and very demotivating.
 
The town I live is is pretty fucking trashed. We have more empty homes then most other communities, and was practically top of the worst housing markets when the market tanked. Housing prices went from 250k to 100k in less then a year... for lower middle class homes. Property that had been used as loan collateral for 2.5 million dollar loans went down to less the 1/4 of the collateral needed to maintain the loan. Roughly 1 out of every 15 homes is either empty or in foreclosure or close to it. So many empty homes means massive amounts of properties for our biggest export.... meth. We have at least one or two house fires a week from meth production. This fucking town is dying. But the city council, all realtors, won't let business in. Won't allow warehouses or manufacturing in. No jobs. We had a 25% unemployment rate at one time. The DA has a son who killed 2 people in a DUI, and only served 3 months, and his other son got arrested and released for driving the car in which a drive by killed 2 kids under 16. All the people who were to testify? 2 died, and one ran out of town.

California is dying, from the inside out. And the big cities look at us in the interior and sneer, and make fun of us. Who could blame them tho?
 
I guess Buffy wasn't lying when it called California a Hellmouth. After seeing all this shit, I wouldn't want to live there. My condolences to all Californian Kiwis.
 
Club Sandwich said:
i've lived in CA for most of my life, i've gone to high school here, college, worked, consulted, and now own a business here. it's a great piece of land with wonderful people... if you sent all the big cities to the bottom of the Pacific or burned them to the ground. the local government, barring a few exceptions, is out for control. the state government is out for power and to further their party's agenda for virtue signalling and pet projects to line pockets. it's such a mess.


eh... to be more detailed, on top of having some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, CA has recently passed "Gunpocalypse" which effectively infringes even more heavily on gun rights. the ammunition thing is three fold:

1. by Jan 1st of 2018 all ammunition must be transferred through or bought from a CA authorized ammunition vendor (who must jump through several hoops for the privilege of making next to no profit on ammo) barring some narrow exceptions.
2. by Jan 1st of 2018 bars importing any ammunition into the state unless you are an authorized ammunition vendor or otherwise exempted.
3. by Jul 1st of 2018 you must undergo a background when purchasing any amount of ammo. you pay the normal rate for this which if it's similar to the DROS schedule will be around $5 or so. if it's an entirely separate schedule patterned on the DROS, it'll be like $19. there was talk of a yearly $50 permit as well.

this says nothing of the new registration requirements, new magazine ban, 80% manufacturing requirements, storage requirements, reporting requirements, lending requirements, or the more recent by laws like the lead hunting ammo ban or the duplicate magazine kit ban.

and all this while gun-runner Yee tries to export guns to terrorists and gets a slap on the wrist while the tax payer pays for his imprisonment, his failed legal defense, his campaign funds from his failed election bid, and after he gets out he'll get his pension and has a cushy job lined up in real estate.
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As a Californian gun owner, it's all the more funny considering Yee and how hypocritical he was in running guns while enforcing gun control. In regards to politics, I'm ignorant in the politics of California but I do remember a few years back when a mayor from a city in Southern California resigned due to claims of sexual harassment.
 
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c-no said:
As a Californian gun owner, it's all the more funny considering Yee and how hypocritical he was in running guns while enforcing gun control. In regards to politics, I'm ignorant in the politics of California but I do remember a few years back when a mayor from a city in Southern California resigned due to claims of sexual harassment.
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Yee was an idiot who should have stuck to prostitution rings and strong arming money out of land lords in SF - his career was completely dead after he backed the "wrong" people in the 90's. then he got popular again in the Asian community by coming down on their side in everything, even to the detriment of the voters that put him into power to begin with. his defense of finning sharks and leaving them to die in the water as being traditional Chinese soup is disgusting. i've been to China - they use the whole shark for different things that aren't popular for the watered down 3rd gen folk that populate the Bay.

anyway guns and CA politics are tightly intertwined, so if you're not up to speed on it, you're likely cruising around with multiple felonies hanging off you. Newsom is set to make CA a gun control advocate's wet dream, so expect the screws to turn tighter. there's so much infighting in CA politics over who is more PC and "for the people" and leftist that's its absurd.

example of current laws and how CA leftist infighting to be more progressive than the next person harms people: if you have had a "high cap" magazine since the 80's and live in West Hollywood, you:

1. couldn't use it in guns other than your registered assault weapon by 2001
2. can't import spare parts in case springs wear out or the aluminum body is damaged by 2014
3. can't possess it outside of West Hollywood (the only city in the LA metro area that doesn't enforce LAC's possession ban) by 2015
4. can't possess it at all in the state of CA come 2018

it at least used to be a C felony, then a D felony, and come 2018 it's a misdemeanor.

how about the instance of being fined for disobeying water rationing by watering the lawn less (browning it).... then being fined by not keeping it green? be aware that replacing it with rocks, concrete, or painting it is also not allowed by city ordnance. you could tear it all up and get succulents i suppose, at your own cost.

or how about in LA where the wealthy who fund politics and rub shoulders with the famous are let go to spend 80,000 gallons of water a day and are never fined for excessive use (the city is under the 16% drought restriction and doesn't fine individual offenders) while regular people get 170 gallons a day and are fined for excessive water use ($330 per violation per month).

there is a huge divide in CA and one side is clearly so far removed from reality and insulated by pandering politicians and power hungry law enforcement that people disenfranchised are excluded, removed, and disillusioned - clinging to the dream i guess. it's a state (literally and figuratively) that breeds all sorts of crazy drama nonstop.
 
Disgruntled Pupper said:
The worst part about Californians is that they're flooding into other states and, having learned nothing from shitting up California, continue to push the same poor financial, real estate, and social decisions to shit up their new homes as well.
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The GOOD thing about Californians is that they're flooding with the homeless people that we don't want. They all go to California
 
The Great Chandler said:
As of recently, they proposed a law that downgrades unprotected sex without telling the partner of being HIV-positive no longer a "felony"
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It passed.

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https://www.rt.com/usa/406024-hiv-infection-felony-misdemeanor/
 
But seriously, spending my entire childhood in that state, it's sad to see it regress as some Socialist pseudo-nation as of the 2010s. Glad some people like me had the opportunity to abandon ship from it. It's probably not even a loss for it to secede. Although I'd like to see salt of CA staying in the Union just because they're a part of Trumpland.
 
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