I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do.

I know the cost of living is high, and people think the gun control laws are ridiculous (I actually think they are reasonable, for the most part). There is a guy I work with here that says “the policies are dumb” but can’t give me a solid answer on what is so bad about it.

So, what is it that California does (policy-wise) that people hate so much?

  • huginn
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    1 year ago

    The amount of Californians who blame everywhere else doesn’t help.

    90% of the homeless in California were there when they lost their houses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_California

    And the problem is y’all refuse to build housing or shelters. 2/3rds of them are unsheltered. Housing costs are why they’re homeless.

    NYC has the other concentration of the homeless (and a lot of problems with the housing market as well) but at least 90% of the population has shelter.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t disagree. We should be building low income housing and we should approach homelessness with housing first.

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        1 year ago

        I love affordable housing but I’ll settle for market rate.

        It’s a national problem but it’s definitely more pronounced the more a place has grown, and Cali just keeps growing.