countryboy
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Democrats ruin everything they touch.California has lost population within the states for well over a decade. But with births and immigration the state population has continued to grow (outside a couple of years during COVID when it shrunk).
Go back a decade plus and most of the people leaving were middle and working class. Today you are seeing more people with wealth leaving.
Housing prices are so high because there is demand, yes, but also because the state has underbuilt for decades.
California's natural beauty isn't in doubt. It's second to none. It's the quality of life that gets debated.
And yes, the state is a proxy for national political wars. For some the state can do no right, for others no wrong.