What is going on everyone? Please answer in the comment section below, I love
hearing how people are doing of course unless your name's Lloyd you're from
Salt Lake City and you can't quit calling me a SOI boy I've never eaten
soy it seems kind of gross I do know a bunch of UFC fighters swear by it I'm
not sure why you think this is an insult but all right moving on today we're
gonna take a look at everyone's favorite punching bag California in case you've
never made it through US geography class California is right here it's on the
left side of the United States California's known for Hollywood
beautiful beaches suntan lotion and the Golden Gate Bridge
ever since some bearded frontiersman found gold at Sutter's Mill California
has been the destination for people seeking their fortune after gold kind of
washed up it was oil then it was Hollywood and then there was tech
there's always been a draw to California the draw is still there for a lot of
people the only difference is a higher percentage don't see it anymore they
don't feel that draw and they're leaving for one reason or another the exodus of
California started around the early 1990s the Golden State was losing
between 400 and 600 thousand residents and their kids every single year while
during that time they were only gaining about 300 to 350 thousand so you know
depends on where it was but they could've been losing anywhere from fifty
thousand to two hundred fifty thousand it was bad during the late 90s in the
early 2000s there was a giant difference in the loss versus gain some years saw
as many as two hundred thousand people leaving than coming in as we entered the
new century there wasn't much of a difference it was pretty close to being
even but as we got close to the recession California had a serious spike
in the percentage of people leaving furs coming in until the last couple years
the exodus has started picking up steam again so let's find out why they're all
leaving in my top ten reasons people are leaving California
number ten traffic if you didn't see traffic being on this list you haven't
been paying attention Los Angeles and San Francisco are in the top five for
worst traffic every single year since forever Sacramento San Jose and San
Diego aren't too far off that list either I grew up in the LA area and
traffic has always been bad I think I've mentioned it before on this channel but
I've been stuck on la freeways in such bad traffic my car didn't move for over
15 minutes like at a complete standstill I've actually had conversations on the
405 freeway with other people in the cars next to me more than once
number nine it's not business friendly now you can read different things on why
California is one of the best places for business
those things will always seem like they're promoting why a company should
move to California or at least stay they will tell you about their educated
workforce and how all these other companies have started in the Golden
State but the fact is major companies are leaving and small businesses claim
the state of California is actually hostile towards small businesses here
are some of the corporations that have left or are planning to leave California
now before I get to this list you should know most we're heading to Texas Toyota
Toyota North America is gone Nissan North America is gone Nestle USA is gone
Jamba Juice is gone even Chevron who's been in California forever has moved 800
jobs from the Bay Area to Texas there's a bunch of other ones that are moving to
Pennsylvania even Carl's jr. which started in California and has been there
for decades up and left
number eight natural disasters earthquakes wildfires mudslides and
Kardashians California has some of the worst disasters in the country now I've
worked a forest fire and it was scary I've been in too many earthquakes to
remember and I've been watched a season or two of the Kardashians so I've seen
some pretty scary stuff every year wildfires and mudslides wreak havoc on
the state of California you also have coastal erosion pull portions of
California coastline are literally falling into the ocean right now I know
one area near where I used to live up in this place Palos Verdes I lived in
Redondo down in the lowlands but there's an area of Palos Verdes called português
Bend that's been sliding into the ocean for years and they keep fixing the road
so you can keep going through it's not moving fast but it's slowly falling into
the ocean number seven opportunity California ranks 49th in a stat they
call opportunity this is when you measure affordability equality and
economic opportunity the only one they beat was Louisiana you know it's not
saying too much for your state when the only one preventing you from being dead
last in any stat is Louisiana that's like coming in second to last in
a foot race the only one you beat was a sumo wrestler in high heels dragging a
sofa bed behind him by a strap around one ankle basically what that stat is
telling you chances of you making a good life for yourself in California are slim
at best
number six taxes taxes are one of the biggest complaints anyone has about any
state taxes were originally a really good idea everyone gives a little bit of
their money so they could fix things around town or maybe help support like
the town's lonely old widow something like that sometime around a day or two
after taxes were a good idea politicians got involved and they've
sucked ever since California politicians lost their collective minds they have
the highest income tax in the country and their sales tax is in the top 10 as
worst not good and before you say it stop typing it's not just the Liberals
and the Democrats Ronald Reagan Pete Wilson and Schwarzenegger didn't go
light on taxes when they ran the state of California
number 5 crime crime may not be the worst in California but it ain't good
when you have cities like SLA Stockton Fresno Oakland and even Compton what do
you expect it actually would be considered the worst state on crime if
they counted politicians ripping you off on every paycheck yeah that would be
that would push them right over the top I imagine they blow past st. Louis and
every one number for the shine is gone the dream of California is over now it's
still a great state in a lot of ways it's one of the biggest economies in the
world which means pretty much nothing to the average resident the beaches are
great the wine is great Disneyland but the people have realized it's not worth
the cost the California life has always been
somewhat of an illusion when all we saw were movies and television people
thought the streets of California were paved in gold now that we have like the
internet and things like YouTube people see past the illusion they see the real
California and they see how much it costs to live in this state and all the
problems and they're just going it's not worth it and they're moving out and
they're moving on
number three the homeless California has a lot of homeless people and that's just
a fact you've got your standard homeless people that are hardcore living on the
streets and then you have a whole bunch of people in a lot of these cities that
are living in their cars to save money or they can't afford their rent they're
saving money for student loans or whatever I talked about this in a recent
video I mean if you're gonna be homeless why not do in a place that's got really
good weather you know it only makes sense but really California does have a
lot of homeless now if you watch anything I've ever done in California
then you look at the comments section you'll see a whole bunch of people left
comments about how there's poop in the streets of San Francisco
now there's a backstory to that this all started with a story in the San
Francisco Chronicle in 2014 someone did a story about the streets with the most
reports of poop like reported to the city to have them come out and clean it
now the article didn't say it was just humans the reports were of all droppings
dogs cats humans whatever now this lady makes a map and puts it online it was
sort of in jest you know she was just making a joke kind of or you know
mocking the situation she posts this thing online story gets tossed around
and the map gets tossed around from different web sites for a couple years
and then Rush Limbaugh gets a hold of it and he falsely claims that the map is a
city project that was made because of the out-of-control poop problem that
homeless people are pooping all over the streets and it's just bad you can't even
go down a street without and he just blew this thing out of proportion now
haven't poop in the streets is not a good thing but the deal is this you are
going to have feces in the streets wherever you have homeless or pets or
wild animals whatever it just happens they don't have a bunch of readily
available bathrooms for homeless people we all have homes that's where we go
they don't it's going to happen I've actually seen it in Oklahoma City
so it happens in all cities not just San Francisco guys need to let it go
quit listen to Rush Limbaugh
number two housing house and rental prices are what's driving 30 percent of
the people out of California back in the 80's 90's you just moved a couple miles
east of the ocean and homes became affordable that dream popped over ten
years ago you have to keep going east to find affordable housing for the average
blue-collar worker now you might end up going as far east to say I don't know
Iowa or Mississippi to find affordable housing and slab city doesn't count quit
bringing it up in the comments section every time I bring up California home
prices everyone said not everyone a bunch of people say move to slab city
slab city is where like homeless people move to or people living off the grid
ninety nine percent of the population would never move there but it is an
interesting story so I you know suggest googling it give an example of how bad
it got back around 2000 my uncle's a decorator and he decorated and painted
this house that was right on the beach in Redondo Beach California I mean it
wasn't even a house it was a condo and between you and the ocean was just sand
and a set of stairs it was right there back then around 2000 2001 it was going
for five hundred fifty thousand dollars so we thought that was a lot of money
you know half a million dollars over half a million dollars I looked it up
currently it's on the market the same place you know almost 20 years later
it's going for 1.8 million dollars this is a you know almost a studio apartment
this is like two bedrooms I believe a bathroom a kitchen and a living room and
the ocean view that's incredible
and number one the cost of living the cost of living in California is obscene
there's no other way to put it it's just gross now granted if you get away from
the coast it does get cheaper like housing but not
much besides about seventy percent of people moving in or out of the Golden
State are going to the coastal cities so really that's most of the focus on this
video and almost any study on California migration and this is the part of the
video where people start leaving comments about how I'm bitter because I
can't afford living in California more just to let you know I can there's a few
places Silicon Valley San Francisco maybe Malibu California places like that
Beverly Hills that I can't but 80% of California I can afford to live in
decently the thing is myself and so many other people don't see the value in
living in California anymore why spend that kind of money to live someplace
that's overcrowded has horrible air quality and standstill traffic most any
day in most any city and I'll be about to talk some trash stop typing look at
your next paycheck and see how much is going to the state of California when
you're done crying call a moving company and head to Texas
all right so that's my top ten reasons people are leaving California hope you
got some information out of hope it was entertaining now there's one other one
that probably should have been on there because it's brought up a lot and a lot
of people say they don't want to move there because it's too liberal I don't
get that one it's not like if you move to a place the Liberals force you to
vote liberal you know that's just like it doesn't make sense
cost of living you know air quality crowds traffic that all affects you if
someone's a liberal next door why does it affect you it doesn't make sense I
mean if you're bothered by all the things that happen from their votes I
get it but it just doesn't make sense to me no one forces you to vote liberal if
you move to any place or conservative or anything else anyway I hope you guys
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