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by Domenic_S
3300 days ago
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Also from SV/CA. I think your points apply here: > 1) Brain drain as young ambitious people leave Tons of smart folks I know are leaving CA for TX or east coast. > 2) Public services (education, roads, etc) decrease in quality, increase in expense omg, this is CA. Have you driven a freeway lately? > 3) Older folks increasingly capture all of the economic gains allowed in small towns through consolidation of local political power CA to the letter. I don't think you're wrong, just that what you're saying applies to us, too. |
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That is very true, but CA also has a large in migration of smart folks, leaving the number of smart folks here at a slowly increasing number. Small towns in red states for the most part don't see in migration from smart folks, the best people they have are the children of those residing there, and in my experience the ambitious ones chose to leave.
> omg, this is CA. Have you driven a freeway lately?
CA supports a relatively dense living situation compared to many areas in 'red states'. While CA might not have the best roads, they have the population and economy to support their maintenance. Many areas in red states have decided to stop paving their roads all together, and are crushing them back to gravel, because the cost of maintenance is unable to be supported by the population and density of people using them. We are definitely at "peak road" in red state America.
> CA to the letter.
Yeah, but I can also get a cushy corporate job in California. Most of the people I knew from [small town in a red state] that stayed either inherited a family business, got hooked on drugs, or settled into the life of mid/low paying government work.