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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
No, I don't believe any critical thinker would suggest that 1.3% over three years is a mass exodus, especially when US population growth is so low. The only people I've heard suggest this are those who parrot the right wing derposphere which loves to push the idea that every "Dem-run" state is a hellhole, which sadly is lapped up by "barstool conservatives".
No, I'm choosing the one assertion you made that is easy to demonstrate was completely incorrect. The others you didn't make an assertion about, you merely listed off things that exist everywhere to different extents, and I wasn't going to dig into that since this is the "Is voting for a third party candidate or not voting at all a cop out?", not the "Lozen parrots right wing talking points about California" thread.
What’s funny is there’s plenty of right wing talking points to legitimately explain the slight decline of population without going deepthroat MAGA with some irrelevant nonsense
Taxes are out****ingrageous
It is prohibitively expensive to live here. People leave either cuz they can’t afford it or because they decided to sell their fully paid off home they’ve lived in for 40 years to go move to another state where they can buy a place twice the size for a quarter the cost
Unless you’re willing to live in like Bakersfield or some boony ass place or some MAGAcalifornia deliverance place in the shastas, rates and home values are so high you are unlikely to qualify for a mortgage making 150k unless you put 30+% down
And if that doesn’t satisfy what your newsmax overlords tell you I’ll even concede this state is the bastion of virtue signaling
But ya, all the 4 bed 2 bath 1500 sqft homes in my neighborhood are valued at 2 million and would be sold within days of being listed because…something something corruption I guess