It’s really bad here in California. Homelessness, taxes, housing, crime, politics. It’s getting worse

My dad bought our family home in SF in 1971 for 48k. It is now worth 2.7 million but looks like it should cost 48k. The cost of living in California is beyond belief. The cost, the traffic, the homelessness! This is not inflation. This is madness.

I was in denial about the declining state of California like “If you don’t like it then leave, losers”…then, I began to look around. The tents scattered everywhere, mental disease, rent prices, food prices, taxes, crime. I’m so glad I left

My wife and moved from California, and never looked back.

"100k to make your first down payment" I'm dying laughing

“It’s easy to save $100k in ten years?” For whom sir?!?!? As a someone born and raised in CA with kids, student loans etc..the sunny days are no longer cutting it.

What pisses me off is that californias pays the highest tax income,highest gas tax,hughes electricity prices and much more and what do we get in return expensive rent,high crime rate,homeless and a government that can't do its fucking job

Many of my family and friends couldn’t believe I didn’t wanna come back to California after I got my degree on the East coast. They would say, why would you want to live anywhere else?! Fast forward ten years, I’m giving them advice on how to move out of California. Get out while you can.

Moved from San Francisco to TN. Never looked back

As a California native, seeing California's slow decline isn't even the depressing part, its the masses that are in complete denial and still claiming its the best state in the country.

I left California 6 years ago. Currently, I settled down in Michigan. I live in Ann Arbor. I think the housing market here is much more affordable for settlements than in California.

I escaped California in 1995. Never missed it, never went back! Get out while you can.

If you're from California, you know why. We just left. Our kid needs a better school, our family needs a better quality of life. The stress of knowing all it takes is one misfortune in life and you could be struggling to stay afloat. The state is absolutely beautiful but so much of it has gone downhill including the people and we didn't see it improving anytime soon. It's really sad.

As Australian, what i witnessed in LA and SF recently. it was disgusting.

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Moved to the Philippines to stretch my money until things get better in California. It’s a nice change, getting to live a simple life for once. I always felt stressed and anxious living in LA

To those who are watching, It's only good until you get involved in a crime. Then you realize the court and the law is not in favor of the victim, whether it be yourself, your children, or your elders. No amount of sunshine tax, diversity, a good food selection, or walking in T shirts on a beach in February will ever be worth the well being of your family.

when the price of housing becomes unaffordable for median income earners, that society is in decline. I saw the same thing in Hong Kong. No young person I met there wanted to stay in HK. They all wanted to come to the US. The main reason was that they could work a well paying corporate job and still never be able to afford a decent sized home. A society that screws over their middle class like this will go into decline.

I live in the California central valley and the weather during the summer is HELL. When summer ends, fires begin so then we have to deal with 2 months of non stop smoke not just from forests but from houses and cars and cities that burn down. Homelessness is increasing and you go to the supermarket and see people just walking out of it stealing bags full of groceries. I have been robbed a few times now. Things are getting out of control here

People in California are so unhappy but they are in denial mode.

I left California after 43 years and now live in a small town in New Mexico with access to a bigger city when the need calls me. Affordability, friendliness and the outdoor lifestyle are what drew me here. California is beautiful and cutting edge but these aspects have been severely eroded over the years.

Good for him if he thinks saving 100k in 10 years is possible, but tell that to all the other people leaving. Those services you enjoy so much such as restaurants, theaters, shows and other services are going to other states. It's only a matter of time until that reality sets in.

Personally, I did something similar to people leaving California for Texas. If I'm being honest it's the best decision I've ever made. In Vancouver (my previous city) I was working endlessly just to maintain living standards and despite having a great salary, it was hard keeping up with year to year price increases and watching 2 thirds of my income go to paying someone else's mortgage on a shitty apartment that I could be kicked out of at any time. During the pandemic, my Dads business started struggling, and since I could work remote I moved in with him and helped him pay the bills. Within a year of paying off his mortgage, The reduced stress of not having to work my ass off, thanks to my reduced bills allowed me to focus on myself. By the end of that year, I found my fiancée and saved up enough money for a down payment on a house 2 minutes away from my dads. My mortgage, property taxes, utilities and food for me and my fiancée are less then what I was paying for myself in my old apartment, but here I get a beautiful front and back yard and 2 additional bedrooms. The lower bills allowed me to take on more risk, and to start a business further increasing my income and happiness, the increased space has also allowed me to get 2 puppies, take up new hobbies that would have violated my old rental agreement. Me and my fiancée are even talking about having a kid. This is just conjecture, and based on my own personal experience, but I feel like people are happier, and more productive when they can own a stake in their communities. I have friends that sacrifice so much... They have to do unfulfilling jobs, for assholes just to make enough money to spend time in a city they don't have enough time off to enjoy, that lack of time also leads to them losing opportunities to find people and build families to enjoy their cities with. Even if they're able to save up enough to buy a place, its because they've worked so hard, and gone without for so many years, they'll be lucky to pay that house off by the time they retire. There's an old Greek proverb that says "Great societies are build when old men plant trees who's shade they will never sit in" unfortunately its unlikely that in some cities people (if they can even afford to buy a home) will ever be able to buy a place where they can plant a tree and watch it grow tall enough to provide their children with shade.

As a Floridian, California was always a dream. It was on the top of my list of places to visit-now, not so much unfortunately. The increase in moves to Florida has been beyond belief. I love Florida. I am sorry so many people are leaving California. If anyone of you are thinking about purchasing in Florida, I’d love to help you find your next home. 😊

I wanted to move to Cali but I'm grateful I didn't. I visited LA and was turned off. It wasn't the prices it was the homeless. Makes it hard to believe the state supports its people with so many on the streets. It was sad. I seriously hope California resets their priorities in coming years

Moved out of California 2 years ago as I couldn't afford buying a house even after saving money. The rising crimes, homelessness and high cost of living just got to me. I love being there but things are too expensive.

What is mind boggling is people who are struggling in California and they have like five kids...

Left after 25 years….it’s so bad. The homelessness, the housing prices, the drugs, the crime, it’s terrible. There are better places in the world. Travel more and find them 🥰🙏🏽

Most Austin natives hate the influx of new residents who are pushing up house prices and making Austin expensive. It's just a cycle, and Austin will follow like San Francisco. Prices will keep skyrocketing for some years while all the locals are priced out and forced to leave. Then when things reach a breaking point, those same businesses and their employees will leave for a cheaper place.

i wanna move to california as an international student would it be a good move right now?

We left two years ago and see no reason to ever go back. It's called QUALITY OF LIFE!

I have a cousin that lives in LA. She works for Google. She makes over $100k a year (not exactly what) she enjoys CA but says its very expensive. The issue that I've noticed with Californian's leaving and moving to other states and Cities. Is that they are driving up the prices in other areas. Not saying that is always true, but alot of times its the case. And people from NYC as well. To some places $1400 a month from is considered Luxury Apartments status. Well if you coming from LA or NYC where rent was $2800 a month in a dump, that is considered cheap to them😄.

I visited California for the first time in the 2000's, and I couldn't fathom why anyone would want to live there, aside from the nice weather. Not that it matters because you spend all your free time in your car. I was on a business trip visiting clients along the I-5 corridor, but I did visit the tourist places in my free time. Those places were even worse with crowds, traffic, high prices on literally everything. To the man who said it's easy to save $100k in 10 years...Uh...No. In 10 years you'll need $500k as a down payment at the rate we're going. Get comfortable with renting or plan on moving way, way, way out of town.

I didnt understand why, can someone answer me

I left Fairfield CA to go back home to Cleveland. I was able to buy a 3 bdrm condo in downtown Cleveland. I was paying $2200 a month for a one bedroom apartment in Fairfield. Totally unaffordable.

Just remember when you move to a new place to adapt to their culture. Don't move somewhere and try to change it into California. If the people of those areas wanted to live in a place like California they would have moved to California. Don't move somewhere new and try and destroy the local culture and way of doing things even if you believe your way is better.

I've lived in a few European countries and for the last 6 years, Australia, specifically Queensland. I recently visited CA for the first time. I have to say it was one of the most underwhelming and even sometimes shocking trips I have ever taken in my life, and I have worked in the Middle East, sub saran Africa and South Asia. Of course, it is richer than those places, but the amount of homelessness, dereliction and atmosphere of decay was absolutely unbelievable for the a state with 6th largest economy in the world, famed for the most prestigious industry, tech. I found myself asking why the hell would a tech billionaire want anything to do with that place, it's outright decrepit in comparison to many Australian and European cities. The weather? I'm sorry but the weather is not even close to as enjoyable as, say, Queensland, and the beaches are incredibly crummy in comparison. Overall I had a good time there but something felt seriously seriously wrong with California in a way I had never seen in a developed country before. The fact that every glistening mega bank building was adjourned with a rainbow flag whilst a small shantytown of homeless tents gathered around it definitely gave me the impression that it is end stage neoliberalism, decorating itself with social justice so the middle/upper class can feel good about themselves whilst actual inequality is through the roof.

I live in San Diego and month by month its becoming more increasingly expensive to live here. My rent for my 300 sq ft studio went up 300 dollars. Now I'm.paying 1335... For a small studio....

I live in Springfield MO and work as a property manager for a property management company and I have noticed a lot of people moving here from California and Colorado because it's so much cheaper to live here but in turn, its caused our rents to go up quite a lot compared to what we are used to and wages are not high enough here to cover it. We have a very large homeless population and I fear it will grow until people start leaving Springfield and the cycle will continue somewhere else

I was grateful beyond words when my daughter moved back to Missouri after leaving California. She made good money but returned broke. California is a great place to visit but not to live!

Live in SoCal all my life and in no way would I ever entertain the idea of moving out of the state 10 years ago. And here we are now, something has change. Violence through the roof, helicopters every night where I live, homelessness up 10 fold, we’re in the biggest drought in history and it’s stupid expensive. Sad to say the sunshine tax might not be worth it anymore.

I met a retired couple who moved to Kimba in South Australia because of high prices in Adeliade. Same thing is happening here in Australia.

is this happening just in LA or from seatle to san diego (whole state) ?

Well.. for homeless, LA isnt so expensive. In fact, LA has increased in homeless population, not less.

I remember being a kid in California before 2008. It was actually decent

I live in North Carolina, and I have visited California several times before. I do agree with these reasons because the homeless population is through the roof, it's barely walkable especially with LA, it's extremely expensive, it's really hot, and it's also suffering from really bad crime. I do plan on moving to Brooklyn, New York City in the next 10-12 years.

I went back to San jose after 5 years and so many stores are closed on Santa Clara st . even the safeway and the Fairmont.

Speaking as a native Californian I have seen prices go crazy over the decades. A home in Anaheim near Disneyland was built in 1958 isworth close to $1 million today. Thhis is a 1200 Sq FT 3 bedroom and 1 1/2 bathroom track house. Gas was $2.50 a gallon 10 years ago and is now getting close to $7. Get out of here while you can!

I don’t know why people in California aren’t protesting and unresting over this mess. It’s amazing they just chug along status quo. I know some people in California that think high gas prices are good. To discourage driving.

That last man was not even believing his own lie about California being worth it...

I was born and raised in California. It’s my home and always will be. But the bottom line is I want to own land that I will be able to PAY OFF, but no such land exists in California anymore.

If I had to choose between moving to Texas and moving to California I would stay where I'm at. With everybody moving to Texas, it will become the new California.

If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it

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I move from California a year and a half ago and I feel deeply like I just missed the guillotine

100 in 10 years is not easy 😂 maybe I’m out of touch, I saved up 60k from late 90’s to 2003/4 for my flat It was one of the hardest things iv done, I couldn’t imagine getting there now

“We have diversity and good food” same thing could be said for 85 percent of the nations urban areas. California isnt special

Diversity and good food? Let me get this straight. Most people in California are stressed, unfriendly, aggressive and awkward. I went to South Florida and was shocked by how much more friendly the people were. Not to mention how relaxed and slower life was. Don't give me that diversity BS, please! I approach a girl in CA and I'm ignored and feel like the police are going to be called at me. In south Florida there are these models from all over the world begging to say hi. Yes, believe it!! Yessss.....

Compared to these house prices, prices levels around 3-7 mio DKK (400k-1 mio US$) for an average single-family house around Copenhagen and Aarhus here in Denmark suddenly doesn't seem so bad. I was in California about 30 years ago. It seems like it has at the same time declined AND gotten more expensive since then.

Have you noticed that almost all the high paying job Aerospace companies moved out of Calif for Fla and Texas

Left in 2003, never going back. This is a huge and amazing country, there’s a lot more than good weather out there to explore.

spent couple of weeks in LA this spring. everything is so crazy expensive ... and people still pay for it. a shot of espresso shoudn't cost 5 USD. not to mention that ridiculous admission to disneyland and universal studios of 150-200 USD

Property groups, investors, and real estate owners are making tons of money because of low supply and high demand. It's easier to accumulate wealth by manipulating housing supply and not building new homes for other people because it pumps up investment appreciation. I work in the real estate industry and this disgusts me. It's a broken system based on selfish greed, ruthless pursuit of profit, and politicians no longer represent the welfare of its own people.

9-28-23 premium gas in Carlsbad CA was $7.19 a gallon. Same day Costco was $6.59..

The effects of politics that either the citizens voted for, or the politics of the politicians who were voted into power. But I’ve never seen a video of a person admitting this is the effect of their vote.

I grew up in California, and I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a home in my home state.

I already left California and I never even lived in California.

I really like the vibe of Cali and I think it is beautiful with great weather and beaches. With all that said, Texas has plenty of sunshine and you can definitely be in a t-shirt in January and February. I’m in the Dallas area and although June, July and August is really hot, no one talks about the rest of the year which is great! In the winter, you get just enough cold days to appreciate the the warmer days. Most days in the winter you think it’s spring. That super ice storm(I know someone will bring it up) is a once in a lifetime storm. Nobody had ever seen anything like it, so don’t act like that’s a yearly thing. Over all, this is a much better place to live. With housing, it’s more about what you get for the price. In Cali, a million dollar home $350k here. Yes property taxes are higher, but there is no state income tax. All in all I’ll say Cali is cool if an youngster want to move there for a few years and rent. If you ever want to buy a house, you will have to hope to earn at least 200k to be somewhat comfortable in a house that’s 1500 sf. Maybe 2000sf if your lucky. With that said, I rather be in Texas and take the 2.5 hour flight to Cali when I want to experience there!

"Man, all that diversity and sunshine! Can't afford to eat like a normal person, but that diversity and sunshine and those beaches! Oh that homeless guy dying in his own vomit? Happens all the time! What? Crime? That's so racist of you!" /s Also, that one Asian guy was racist as fuck, while we're on the subject. Man just up and said "I couldn't live in Seattle. It's a little too white for my taste." Could you imagine if we let white people get away with saying stupid shit like that? As a proud BG resident, I want to think we would have run his racist ass out of town.

I'm 43 and lived in California my whole life. If I could I would've left years ago... this place has been going to shit for over a decade

I love how its actually cheaper for me to buy an apartment in Monaco and have no tax forever than buy the same size and house in LA

Since I was a child people when asked what their town was like in California they would say it is great. "sixty minutes to the beach and 2 hours to the mountains". My daughter lived in California for a while. She rolled her eyes when I said that. "It takes that long to get out of your neighborhood." People from California rave about the beaches the mountains, but to get there?

Everyone talks about diversity and good food… I mean Texas is incredibly diverse with incredibly diverse good food. They are in a California elitist mindset

CA is a beautiful state. I've been there many times for business. Once I learned how expense everything is, there's no way I would ever live there. It just doesn't make sense to pay ten times as much for housing, fuel, utilities, name it.

These people act like traveling to california is just not an option. How much time do you actually spend on the beach?

Good video!!! Hello everyone from the hot beaches of Greece👍🙋

When that guy said "It's easy to save 100 000 dollars for a down-payment" i literally choked on my cup of tea....

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Is it the best place to live if you are rich?

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Those images of San Francisco full of cops and private security agents reminded me to how uptown neighborhoods are in Latin America, like in Brazil, Mexico and other countries, where rich people seclude themselves in areas full of private security, high walls, security cameras and electrified barbwires in order to keep crime (and poor/homeless/drunk/drug addict people) from the slums away... but it doesn't work since you just cannot live in a bubble pretending the problems from the society won't affect you. And there are 2 problems here; 1st, I don't see anyone presenting a solution that people could agree to solve the economic, social crisis, and 2nd, as the saying used to go: "As California goes, so does the US". It makes me wonder if in a few decades the rest of the US will be like California. I mean, Texas is great but is not an island and sooner than later it will start to have problems keeping up with the people coming from California and other states, eg housing prices will start raising and employment won't be able to keep up with the new labor force coming from other states.

I was born and raised in LA and moved to Nevada back in 2015 for business and I am glad that I did. Prices in LA and CA are ridiculous now

My sister still lives in in Southern California and she still has a great Job that is making her good money, but even she admits that there is not much people around her area.

Well, I think he framed the problem with the word "Diverse". Less is more, the more you add, the more confusing and unstable the picture gets.

I don't understand why weather is the indicator that makes you stay in an expensive state like California. For me, it's affordable housing/rent, public transport access, safety/crime rate, the people, kid parks, and the distance to the closest market or restaurants.

what saddens me the most is seeing the number of homelesness growing

It makes me so sad hearing about the state of California. I’ve lived here for 25 years and have only seen it get worse. As an adolescent, I had dreams of moving to Hollywood and Downtown in order to be in the heart of creativity and art. Now, it’s not even close to worth it. I would rather live in a jungle than live in Los Angeles. One day I will say goodbye to you, California. Hopefully soon…

Really interesting video

I been to a number of states in the US , Florida, Georgia,Texas, Washington, Etc. I must admit they can’t compete with California weather. The states that comes close to CA is Florida but then you have to deal with the humidity .

I’m from Atlanta, and I never thought much of my city…until I went to Los Angeles and saw how filthy it is. The amount of homeless people and the type of homeless people shocked me. There were so many and they seemed unwell. They were dancing, acting very strange and I felt unsafe. Now, I realize the charm and cleanliness (relatively) that Atlanta holds.

If you were to come to Toronto Canada the bachelor apt. are 450 - 500K, houses and other stuff is stupid high, I don't think is worth at all.

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I was in California for 1 week in May and then another week last week. I fly there regularly for my job & spend a day or two. I have family there so grew up visiting but I have NEVER seen it as bad as it is now. There are homeless EVERYWHERE. All the stores seem to have security guards. The price of food is outrageous.

No rule of law or enforcement, high cost of housing, high taxation, homelessness and crime spiking, violent crimes spiking etc

is it true that California is the most obscene state aswell as they shows inn the movies and seasons like califfornication

I grew up right outside SF but moved away 20 years ago.. It's so sad to me to see such an awesome state go downhill.. To those of you that say "go turn these other states blue" Why would you vote for the same horrible politicians that ruined Cali??

“California’s population is declining” Not fast enough, traffic is horrendous in the Bay Area 😵

3:40. There’s a video of boarded businesses that says shoplifted to death

New Zealand petrol is from 2.30 - 2.70 per litre ... 1 gallon is jus over 3 litres

Housing is expensive in parts of California because there is a shortage of housing in coastal areas where most people want to live. But inland areas such as Bakersfield and Fresno are not expensive. Most people who leave the coastal metros are actually moving to inland parts of California.