[systemvoltage]

I hope 'Californication' doesn't take over Phoenix.

> In 2017 Portland ranked third. Now it has dropped to 66th out of 80.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-...

Oakland is similar in SF Bay Area, used to be quite livable 15 years ago.

Californians (and people from west coast states) that move there also bring their unchecked progressive views and will lead to the situation that we have in SF Bay Area, Portland, Seattle, LA and now Austin, Denver. Rampant homelessness, housing crisis, exploding crime rates, etc. No one wants to live in a society that keeps peddling failed policies. I can't wait to move out of Bay Area. I will still be a democrat but it's getting harder.

[Tiktaalik]

The housing crisis that California is exporting is rich people buying up single family homes then demanding that no apartments get built near them anywhere.

This is not a "progressive view". This is rich, elitist, anti-renter landed gentry shit.

[germinalphrase]

Honest question: what keeps you in the Democratic Party if you dislike places that seek to implement Democratic social policies?

[systemvoltage]

General election: Mostly international diplomacy, health policies, climate policies, funding for R&D, EPA, NASA, Infra (I think Republicans usually vote for defense spending), and the obvious derailment of the Republican party for past 20 years. It is unreconizeable today and there is no way I am voting for Trumpism. I have voted for local Republican leaders in the past.