Also: Just a friendly reminder that
500,000 people are
still moving to California every year. We have the 3rd highest amount of domestic immigration, yet no one writes a story about that.
Maybe stop some of that from happening long enough so our housing prices become affordable for current residents to live here.
How is it hypocritical? Something bad happened to California, so we're not allowed to talk about it if it happens elsewhere? Anyway, my complaint is about the people that use their equity built by leveraging the human misery caused in CAs awful housing situation (prop13, general refusal to build, high levels of segregation), or remote workers taking their CA salaries, to arbitrage cheaper property markets elsewhere and inflict the same cycle of pain elsewhere. I don't have a problem with the people who are leaving because they literally can't make a life in CA due to housing costs.
I also don't understand how this part applies " But, it was people FROM their states that drive up housing prices in CA to begin with. ". If someone else from my state does something I don't like, I'm responsible for it? Nobody ITT is shitting on people just for living in CA. It's the people bringing their money and NIMBY attitudes from CA and fucking up the housing markets that people are complaining about. And for the people who did the same thing to CA once upon a time, yeah I think they're assholes too.
Some posts in this thread read exactly like they're blaming Californians for their personal misery. It's blatantly obvious. And it happens in almost every thread about Californians moving elsewhere. If this was the first time I saw it, I wouldn't have said anything.
Also, Californian is a vague term. There's a good chance many people leaving aren't originally from here - maybe they're just returning to their home state/region.
Second off, name a state without some form of NIMBYism. It's an American problem that people seem to exclusively scapegoat Californians for.
We won't fix any housing cost issues across any state without addressing the underlying problem.
Third, though there are absolutely terrible housing laws contributing to the California housing prices, building more is hardly a good option anymore. We
have been building more - directly into the few places that are left, which are fire zones. We all just saw how that's working out these past few summers.
Now high density urban housing could use a major boost, but that comes with its own set of issues.
Basically, this is really no one's inherent fault. And nobody (in SoCal) whines about people from other states moving here - except for me. They just deal with it and move on.
Compare that to the reaction to when Californians move to another state - they lose their freaking minds.
