[cpt1138]

Also California is a huge place, not just SF and LA. We have as many national parks as Alaska, 100's of some of the most beautiful state parks and 100's of county parks. Many states have much worse drug problems per capita. Any country of 39M people and the economy we have is going to have upsides and downsides.

[hueving]

But the downsides are concentrated in the population centers where most people need to live.

[toasterlovin]

Not having a viable path to produce the next generation doesn’t seem like a viable long term strategy to me.