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by toomuchtodo 1992 days ago
California voters seem happy to keep voting themselves destructive legislation regardless of long term consequences. Vote with your feet.
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But remember when you “vote with your feet” that you are a refugee not a missionary.

Dont vote for the same things that made you left on your new place!

> But remember when you “vote with your feet” that you are a refugee not a missionary.

You're actually neither of these things.

Oregon!

But yeah, I agree. Don't try to institute the same policies in your new state which lead to your decision to eventually leave your old state.

Problem is that many who are moving aren't giving a whole lot of thought as to why California has had such a large reduction in quality of life. They simply know QoL has declined to a level where they want to be somewhere else. They may have different theories as to why QoL tanked, some might even know that some of the policies they voted for had a hand in it while believing that they simply weren't implemented well in California but think "we'll get it right this time" in their new home state.
Quality of life in California is grand if you don’t factor in the high cost of living, which is primarily due to land being expensive. California is a victim of its own success and of its bad zoning laws and nimbyism.