Why California Has So Many Problems 

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Perfect analogy 👀

Yep. I’m a pool guy. Running my own business. Taking care of the country clubs pools lol. Make just enough to rent and play at the beach every day. By peasant standards, I’m living large haha.

this is the best analogy

That's America

Commong bureaucracy L.

That’s WILD. Granted, SF’s shitty public transit problem is also why Uber/Lyft was born. So silver lining I guess

LA Metro keeps running into this issue. The Purple Line Extension was delayed because Beverly Hills kept suing (but lost all of them, even with Kamala Harris's husband as their lawyer), and now Bel-Air is trying to stop a subway through the Sepulveda Pass that would relieve traffic on the 405 and give people a transit option. Meanwhile, the light rail in the foothills keeps getting extended (even though it would serve fewer people) because the cities along it are more open to light rail expansion.

That is basically also southern Europe in a nutshell, too much bureaucracy, too much regulations, too much regulatory body you need to get permit from, so nothing gets ever done.

If you want to know one of the main reasons why the highspeed rail has taken so long it's mostly due to one giant district called kings county. Every step of the way they've been delaying the process for the sole purpose of making it impossible to finish.

Indeed, diversifying a $380,000 portfolio across various markets with guidance from an investment coach has proven fruitful. You've managed to generate a net profit of over $790,000 through high dividend yield stocks, ETFs, and bonds. That's an impressive achievement.

Can you suggest the investment coach you've been using? It appears you've had success with their guidance.

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The housing market will indeed come down, however one feature which may mitigate the degree of crash would have something to do with the fact that this bubble occurred amid currency debasement (trump’s stimulus checks during Covid), Fed actions etc

Omg eww

I’m in San Diego. Don’t hold out much hope for evidence-based policies. Our government had this strange relationship where it’s more about deceiving voters and manipulating them as opposed to just doing what works.

the specific policies. not one single person has pointed out where these consistently bad policies continue to arise from. presuppositions turn into substance. if it continues to happen why blame the superficial aspect of the problem? blame the source

I’m having a hard time staying in California. I to, am a multi-generational Californian living in Orange. But after college, I don’t think my girlfriend and I can afford much here. We both have good jobs and make a stable income but a combined $160,000 can’t keep us stable here even without debt. We wanted to get a small house, but in most areas those can be 900k+. We are seeing how Oregon or Colorado are since we are both in the semiconductor industry.

Good. Keep the commies like yourself in California.

@@Okgeneric Not sure what you mean. Everyone knows (if they care to) the long laundry list of horrible CA laws, projects and policies that are ruining the place. Local rent control, refusal to do controlled burns, the train to nowhere, reducing shoplifting to a misdemeanor, gas taxes, predatory state lotteries, Prop 47, I could go on. We do nearly everything wrong here.

People are also living longer. I have a friend in his 40s who will inherit a one million dollar in San Francisco but his Asian parents probably won't die for another 20 years. So not only does that hurt his bottom line as decades ago he'd have already inherited wealth, but that house is also off the market. I know that sounds dark but it's just the reality of the situation. It's not something Boomer's control. They could downsize but would have to move out of California for it to make financial sense and many don't want to. The system is in need of a readjustment that likely won't happen with a major crisis because our politicians suck and are busy arguing for trans rights or other nonsense that affects a very small minority.

The state is on the brink of economic colapse just like SVB. Also their population doesnt represent normal America which causes its own problems.

Same in the Boston area my guy, the nimbys are a cancer and were all dying because of it.

@@RJT80 the boomers show up to community meetings to block projects and are in political positions that cater to the homeowning class. Its 100% something they control.

​​@@RJT80 simple - bring back landowners rights (cancel exclusionary zoning) and focus on land value tax instead of property tax. NIMBYs are not letting this happen and keeping us hostage

Also infuriating that it’s called “Californias homeless people problem” while other states literally put their homeless people on one way buses to cali

Kinda like building a wind farm next to the upper class echelon...

Stupid people. Yep

​@@skylineXpert and an airport

I think they want them to bus or fly those to Texas, Florida or New Mexico instead.

It’s important to remember that US wages are kinda skewed While US average wages are higher, Americans don’t receive stuff like free healthcare and that’s messed up because there are so many rich people in America. The regular American lives about just as well as the average person from any Western European country

At this one company, people that take a cooperate jet between Oregon, Arizona, and California daily. Its hundreds of people at dozens of locations and this is just one company. They fly for a in person meeting and then fly back. Some of the stuff they work on is classified, and they are not allowed to write it down or transmit it.

Oh yea, cause Europe’s housing is SUPER affordable….🤣

​@@Brandon_TG_SmithCountries like England are only able to have universal health care because they're under US protection and can skimp on military spending. The UK only has 75K troops. The've shrunk their Navy and Air Force. If they had to actually defend themselves their universal healthcare would collapse. It might still fail even while they're under US protection.

The VAST majority of programmers in Silicon Valley earn six figures per YEAR and commute by car from neighboring cities. Salaries over $1M per year are VP-level positions, and these days, most executives who live outside the state routinely telecomute to work.

I think he was a little harsh. Go back to 6:00. He makes it sound like California is way ahead of other states when it's only 0.6 higher than Vermont in the number of people experiencing homelessness per 10,000. I think some of this is sensationalized. Not all of it, but some.

WRONG!!!! cal has one THIRD of the homeless in country and one THIRD of the folks in cal are homeless. cal's so fucked and MOST overrated place on earth -- but yeah, weather's great! duh, @@velvetbees

So... What makes California so much different from the East coast? I still can't quite grasp...

east coast is TWICE cal's age, for starters, so DEEP roots vs.shallow ones. ca's front of this crazy train, the face of murica. northeast (boston to dc) is engine, ie, the balls and brains of the country.. east coast is mind. west coast is body....and on and on ..... @@3abxo390

​@@3abxo390 almost like being in a different country

Another fun fact - during that time period, if you could afford to have your laundry done by someone else, it was cheaper to send your dirty clothing to China for laundering, than to have it done locally.

@@lizcademy4809 I love your reply. Lol.

@@lizcademy4809 Unless time is money.

I wonder why Chinese immigration was so limited despite the geography… 🤔 Alas, I guess we will never know

@@BlueIron64 They would much rather go to B.C. or Toronto. Mostly B.C. Crime is too high in California.

damn that sucks.

From very far away from California, I have to say: thank you. Not just for your service, but for the humanity you reflect with a small drop loke this. As alienated as I am from this situation, it's good to be reminded explicitly that these aren't just rendered NPCs that represent an abstract bad thing, but actual people that actually live in the world, actually going through complex lifes with many faces. Hope they're all doing better, wherever they are now - and hopefully we get to remember them as something better than stock footage for mass consumption.

That is hilarious

We need to get rid of the homeless industrial complex. THAT is the problem now.

​@@TheseYeahThesewhat's a Homeless Industrial Complex???

Meh: California if American in all the wrong ways

Texans when they find out cowboys, ranches, cowboy boots and rodeos are mexican and Spanish in origin 😮

Just like everyone else in america, we’re waiting for the dang boomers to die.

there’s a kind of unspoken second half to NIMBY “Not in MY backyard… but you should totally do it somewhere else!”

The problem is those people are generally two different groups. People that want new housing are usually younger people who dont own a home already. The NIMBYs are usually older home owners (and Republicans that dont give a shit if it doesn't affect them)

Essentially it all boils down to income inequality.

@@LonecloneProductions literally in this comment sections californoïds are advocating jailing the homeless, deport them out of the state, or "round them up and put them in colonies in the interior" as if they were cattle. Finland has solved the problem, Japan has too, the solution is and always was simple : build housing and put homeless people in. Simple as that, and you'll save so much more money than you spend on palliative care.

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Multi-family units can be built in other cities where they wouldn't adversely affect property values.

You mean it's evil.

​@@BillGreenAZsure but you have these wonderful democrats that preach for equality and then when it's too close to them they fight it and push it out to everyone else. The word is HYPOCRITES!

I moved away from California as soon as I graduated college. I'm not spending my earnings for 20 years to pay your grandfather's million dollar retirement.

Texas is about to have a LOT of the same problems California currently has. Fucked up

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What's wrong with that? Usually poor people come with crime, noise, and blight. The whole point of earning a good living is so you can live a better life, separate from the people you don't want to interact with. Otherwise, why go to school and get a good job?

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It is not lack of money that produces poor people. It is poor people produce the lack of money for themselves. In the usa for sure

@@wallyballou7417 but separating the poor people like that is what causes them to become/stay poor, which in turn causes even more crime.

Nationally-determined zoning wouldn't be practical in the US because of the scale of the nation. But perhaps state-determined zoning would work better, at least in California.

no idea but I like the ideas behind this

Didn't get how more dense equals no competition. Isn't it more competition? Idk, maybe punctuation is at fault

@@tomasbeltran04050 more dense means supply goes up. more supply, less competition.

@@chinglamyung more supply less competition? Ðat doesn't make sense

I only moved here in October, also from the east coast and it's lole seeing the difference between earth and Mars is some cases. I miss treed on the mountains, water I can see (rivers, streams, lakes), cities that look like cities and not a typical su urban whuch it seems that all of LA county is. I dislike it here very strongly ans want to move back east asap.

​@jennifertarin4707 that's why I love Santa Cruz County. You're super close 2 SF and Silicone Valley but n the redwoods over looking the Pacific Ocean.

This is the most nuanced comment on this video

THIS!!!!!!

Very well put, it’s sad beautiful so many properties sit empty

Perfect example as to why diversity is good but also bad.

I always found it was the prime example of a failed government. As an outsider Canadian I have watched them fail as much as the CCP. Dump a bunch of shade balls into a reservoir then complain when a forest fire starts from dryness. Stop policing just allowing criminals to do whatever they want, particularly in San Francisco. Give almond farmers insane rates on water then complain about water shortages. Making themselves a haven for drug addicts. I see California as very liberal. Keep in mind if you look at the Forbes top 20 for the USA 18 out of 20 are very far left. People like Gates, Zuckerberg, Buffet, Bezos, even Musk was far left until like 2 years ago.

Its the reason a Cyberpunk future can never happen. Voters won't allow their property values to collapse like that.

You would think the state would have the rich pompous assholes it hosts foot the bill quite literally with their taxes. That way it's not a question of making even. It's solely for the development and growth of the state with the people it will host and maintain for possible economic benefits. Your low income janitors, barristas, and street sweepers quite literally are an endless pool of labor for maintaining your city. Along with being your pool for future skilled labor. Your STEM grunts and coders come from somewhere. So why not invest in growing those benefits at home instead of from afar? It drives me nutty how much benefits I could make for any given city by telling these pompous "fuck you I got mine" rich assholes to shove it. We're building this. Fuck off somewhere else if you don't like it. Eat the rich. Eat the assholes. I'm tired of this bullshit.

"I had a multi-family project die after being approved for construction, not because of local pressure (there was a lot of that though), but because of fees to the city." One could argue those ludicrous fees are a form of local pressure. Those small municipalities can't overturn the legal requirements, but they can kneecap any attempt at following through on said requirements. Excessive red tape, ridiculous fees that aren't even close to being justifiable, etc.

I wondered about this. I really don't want very large apt complex in my home area, but don't mind 4-10 unit buildings mixed in with the homes. you don't end up blocking sky lines and it feels more neighborly. I'm also the type that don't like gated communities for the same reason.

@@jeremywerner9489 not just could be said, but a large part of it is explicit in places like mountain view (dunno how universal that is, I just know that for mountain view

Funny, I live in the Netherlands and our housing market has the exact same problems. And the government response is almost exactly the same. They keep spouting rhetoric about building more housing. We have 8 million homes for 18 million people. Thats 2,25 person per home, and most of those homes are single family houses that can easily house 4 people. Lack of housing is not the problem. Neoliberal government deregulating the housing market, reducing what in America would be section 8 subsidized housing for the poor, international investment mainly from other EU countries, and the government selling out to the private sector, with local governments preferring to sell plots of land to real estate developers that build 600K+ each luxury apartment complexes and villas to get a bigger profit margin instead of building affordable housing, are some of the problems I can name. Oh and besides the foreign investors, guess who owns most of our real estate? The banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and of course old money. They are now talking about changing laws to force farmers to sell their land to build more villas for the rich and powerful to buy so that we peasants can pay rent for the rest of our lives. Im emigrating.

@@TheSuperappelflapreal estate is not the reason for the attention dairy farming is receiving from regulation. The vast nitrogen output produced by so many dairy cattle is genuinely destroying biomes. There are far more productive means for producing food at scale than exporting a ton of Gouda. Lentils, for instance, are a far more efficient, economical, and environmentally sustainable source of protein. Besides, most of the farmland is already owned by large corporations over there too, right?

@@saelkyl Incorrect. What you’re saying is the official government narrative. In reality most of the nitrogen comes from pig farms, not from cows. But the government wants to pass laws enabling them to force farmers to sell their land so they can sell it to housing project developers. Pig farms don’t take up a lot of land. Cow farms do. That’s why those farmers are being targeted. It’s always about the money.

​@@saelkyl It's not your business what farmers produce and to whom they sell.

By FAR the wisest comment in this video. (and informative) ... thank you. What disgusts me, on the other hand..? And why I can't listen to this lib turd..? He thinks CA deserve to cleave off from the nation for abortions & gun bans. But Texas..??? Has to just shut up and take it as mass illegal migration run by cartels persists ... and all the crime + murders that come with it. Or heck, why not just put CA in charge of the US ... then, you can legalize shoplifting up to $1,000 ... so instead of some of the most profitable stores only fleeing SF, etc., they'll simply cease to exist. Who needs drug stores!? Liberalism is a disease.

As someone who lives in Las Vegas, we are also quite aware of this. You leave our city and it's pure desert for hours

@@hiphipjorge5755At least you’re just 2-3 hours from LA, SD, and Phoenix. The Bay Area is like 7 hours away from the nearest metro.

Hey, sac is only an hour and a half away. @@rickowskii

yea i lived in cali my whole life and while i was able to visit many different states as a kid I know a lot of people who never left the state until after they were 18

You got Bart?

Don't forget that they banned owner operator truckers from the state, meaning they have fewer drivers and more freight needing imported

arent the pipelines already connected? LA is a huge oilfield wendover covered it too

This state does so many stupid things. My only hope is that as things get worse and worse for the regular working class people they consider finally voting for something else then the party that fucked them over for decades.

In the long run it would save the state so much money and stop more environmental harm if they just connected it. But because of how massive a project it is people only see the consequences in the short term, such as the cost and environmental damage. Its almost paradoxical because by building it your costing the state too much, but by not building it you end up doing the same.

Well isn't that partly why they want to ban oil vehicles ?

I noticed that when the High Speed Rail was coming thru to my county. Local republicans didnt like it calling it a waste of money. They sued. It delayed the project for a few years- costing money, got caught up in court- costing more money. Nothing ever came of it and the project resumed. My local government patted themselves on their back, stuck it to the Libs, and still get reelected. If anything, it brought a good amount of money to the area, people got jobs for the project and selling materials to the project, the workers bought stuff from local shops.

@@CaseNumber00 A lot of NIMBYs go after transit projects which is infuriating. Just because they want to drive a car everywhere doesn't mean everyone else wants to. I'm in OC and very excited for CAHSR along with the opportunity to visit Fresno (for Yosemite trips) and SF (tourism and family) more often.

@@renaes2807 It's not just that they want to drive. It's that it makes their areas less accessible to poor people if there's no public transit.

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It's all Democrat fraud and corruption. From the 100k in permits to build a new single family house to the over 85k a year spent per homeless person to non profits to solve the homeless problem...

Their is a simple question to "Why California Has So Many Problems".... The people their are democrats and Socialist leftist liberals.... The majority of the people their are w0ke and it's disgusting.... They keep voting democrat expecting change lmao.. They got what they voted for and every Californian deserves the increasing crime rate over there. Not to mention the majority of the people their believe in exposing children to filth and harming children... The majority of the people in california especially the Black community has a victim mentality.... The majority of the Proletarians in that state and the lazy college students born into middle class families support and believe in socialism even though time and time again in history it has been proven to fail. Not to mention the majority of the people their are promiscuous... So the californians deserve everything that is happening rn in their state, I just hope these people who keep voting democrat never leave their state because they deserve everything that is happening to their cities, Especially the californians who are living in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

That's how they launder the tax dollars.

Economists call this the "agency" problem. Government agencies can never solve the problems they are charted to solve because then they would no longer need to exist.

You just describe what almost every poltician does.

You just described so many social programs paid for with high taxes. They sound great when you vote for them...but in reality are terrible

Yes, and no. It is a large distance, but it is a manageable distance that - for example - several European countries and Japan also have between their two largest cities.

Yeah definitely like two islands. 6 hours to go to NorCal and us in SoCal don’t here much of what occurs up North. Along with Central Cal being mostly farm land and not as populated.

It would make sense to split the state in 2

Sure but it’s connected by road and valley cities like Fresno

@@TheElizondo88 talk about big ones like Brazil China India Russia Australia they have too

When you flee to a red state are you going to vote for the same political party that causes all of the problems in California?

You’re not alone! My aunt just moved from Cali to North Carolina.

Me too, I’ll really miss being Californian but the entire state is just too expensive for my family

Pittsburgh is calling.

@@PeanutTheSnail - I'm seriously considering moving to North Carolina from NJ. I've never been there but yet that's where I'd like to move to. Maybe somewhere outside of Ashville, Idk. 🤷‍♂

HOLY MOLY! We read that same exact book in 4th grade too! XD A big fact I still remember to this day lol

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Democratic state of Sh1te

Mountain Range of Corruption and Rent-Seeking.

Your degree is outdated old man

@@stellviahohenheim your degree in Elizabethan lesbian theory is useless, please stop acting as if you have any real education. Spend less time trolling utube and more time paying off your student loans and moving out of your mommies basement.

I don't think the mountains help with prices but their impact is nothing compared to every governing body adding their own gas tax.

LA still is an oil town; they just try to hide it

There's plenty of oil left...however the land is worth more as RE than oil well space. When I was a kid Venice & Playa del Rey were filled with oil wells. Every open lot had wells.

This documentary is not entirely true on the subject of oil. I live in Salt Lake City, where we have oil and natural gas wells. We also have refineries. We export petroleum products to CA via truck or rail. We have to refine our gasoline and diesel to CA standards.

I just started the video, can't wait to hear all the excuses for failed government policy and agenda. They dwarf everyone in tax base. California has so many things going for it they manage to ruin, it's crazy. I expect many will be missing based on title of vid. Texas is #2, but they don't have problems because their government is conservative. LOL. He really just concluded that 19:18, almost directly. I'm not even conservative, just sure as hell not progressive left... but that is great stuff, W

Well well well lmao

Because of gentrification lol

What a garbage take. LA is a dumpster fire of filth, drugs, violence, and everything wrong with modern western civilization

Theres another problem....you moving to california.

@@MrLynch-ei4dc this is the only problem. We were fine until everyone wanted to be a movie star or a tech start up.....

​@@knockhello2604 No, Demographics is destiny, people mistook the brain drain of a war torn europe as universal effect of immigration from anywhere, once that ran out, we imported dysfunction. A California with ~1960's demographics today would be the claimed nordic dream of its voters.

Not really. Compare it to the states in the east of Australia, which has a lot of similarities with regard to megafires and water management. There is cooperation/interconnection where necessary, but economic and governmental separation otherwise. A lot of this is inertia because the wealthy refuse to compromise on their lifestyles. The rest is political coming from Washington.

California could not exist without piping in water from extreme distances. California is an engineering marvel. Also, California is a Social Engineering marvel... 😄

We have the same 1400 dams give or take 1 or 2 that we had when I was a kid and there were 11 million people here - The 30 million newcomers have built nothing - only used up what the "original" people built decades ago (if you apply natural birth and death rates to the 1950s/1960s the CA population should be about 12 million today - Instead the population is 40 million

@@grisall CA mostly wants complete control over how to allocate water from dams. So they built their own dams, like Oroville Dam, instead of the US Corp. of Engineers. Yet when when the state built and owned and operated Oroville Dam's spillway and Emergency spillway spectacularly failed, it cost about as much in adjusted dollars to fix that, as it did to build the entire Oroville dam to begin with. And the Feds found a way to help with that rebuild, for a dam the feds don't get to have any say in how that water is allocated. Nice arrangement when you can get it !!

@@HardRockMaster7577 CA could definitely exist without water projects it would be less populous though

Steph curry is portrayed by the sports media as such a wholesome nice guy 🤣so funny to see that mentioned here

Allow the homeless to live in your home then This is the first step towards solving the issue

​@@misturdean3189 now explain to me how the absolute fuck that's the same as doing what countries like Japan and Finland have done to solve homelessness

I agree with the first part of your statement but having spent time speaking with the homeless, it seems that it's not just a simple matter of giving them a home. Most of these people suffer from drug addiction, many of them suffer from mental illness, usually one leads to the other. Sure there is a minority that just needs a one-up but curing homelessness for real is a mush more complicated issue than building homes.

@@legalcams that’s a fair point, some of the root causes of homelessness are easier to deal with than others. My frustration was more that, as the video states, there is wealth and the desire by local lawmakers to try and make an impact with rezoning efforts, but their blocked by excessive resistance. Other issues like drug addiction are a massive driver too, but the nimby thing is something we as a society can easily and should make a change to avoid

@@wizardmix wait till you find out homelessness leads to drug abuse, rarely the other way round. Desperate people will do anything to alleviate the pain.

Honestly, that is the 3rd world experience: shanty towns and million dollar homes.

Yeah that's interesting. I spent a summer in San Jose and had a hard time figuring out some of the things I was seeing. In Milpinas, you had an abundance of multi-million dollar homes and drivers turning their noses up behind the wheels of their Teslas and BMWs. Yet, this area was in the path of a constant Jetstream of wind coming from the nearby waste management facility. Imagine working so hard to earn your fancy house and car, only to be living in an area that constantly smells like shit. The American Dream is subjective for everyone I suppose.

@@rustyshackleford6637 They might not even be living in those homes that's why. A lot of rich people who don't have a single location to work from, executives/politicians/celebrities who are constantly living in fancy hotel rooms. If they do live somewhere sort of permanent then it's in rural isolated areas, far away from any "poor" people to bother them.

This state is great if you're mega rich or super poor. If you're middle class you're getting screwed. People choose to vote this way though. Things could change yet every election they choose to keep things this way.

You just described every major city in the US lmao

Exactly. I was wondering why this video didn't connect the dots as to why homelessness decreased in some states while simultaneously increasing in California. As if that's just a coincidence. Or magic?

California is an invention. The earliest settlers from the East spoke of contact mudslides and the air full of smoke almost year round. So they figured out ways to deal with the mudslides and put out most of the naturally occurring fires. Now California deals with mega-fires while the governor makes a video weeping about the redwoods that don't even burn while refusing to allow people to do anything in response. It's a state in a constipated state. Prisoner to its own ridiculous politics. And it's losing to other states now. The Texas triangle (Dallas investment, Austin R&D, and Houston and San Antonio manufacturing) is going to put Silicon Valley out of business. Even Miami is becoming a new global tech hub. California is a weird state. 30 miles along the coast it's artificially expensive. Way up north it is fairly affordable but very tribalistic. And then the inland desert is very interesting and beautiful but full of very odd human beings. It's a shame Republicans couldn't hold onto it because it worked at one point. Now it's kind of in a zombie state. Still plenty of money coming in but everyone can feel the slow decline.

Population has declined more than there are homeless. Everything mentioned in this video is absolute garbage. There are enough homes, there's enough room to build more. The problem is you keep voting Democrat.

From my POV its just like most bigger cities. A term in Denmark I like to use is Rødvinds socialister, or translated redwin socialists. From the video it seems like there are ton of good meaning people in the state, but when push comes to show...They dont really mean action.

As another Californian I can confirm this

I grew up in CA. It was amazing. However, after graduating college, it dawned on me that in order for me or any of my peers to "live the way we grew up", is to either be a super smart hard or soft engineer, or another very high paying job. For the majority of people though, when they realize that even with the combined income of them and their partners, they might be relegated to apartment life. My theory is that mentally people don't like the idea of being "behind" in life wealth and accumulation vs their parents, so they find other more affordable states to move to.

I put my hamster in a sock and slammed it against the furniture

@@TippyHippy as one does.

Of course they do. They're democrats.

And that someone else should pay for it.

Here in California we have everything, beaches, mountains and beautiful scenery etc. Said by some fool whose never left the state.

Politics sucks everywhere. If it was so great on the other side 8 of the 10 poorest states wouldn't be red... That's not a knock to either side really but they need to become more centrist to actually get anything done not only federally but at the state and local level as well...

@@jasonlee8156 I say those things and I travel across the country for work. 🤷‍♂

@@ironmonkey4o8 To be fair though I will say this. Very few places if any has everything. State or country. If you want to see everything you are going to have to do some travelling around. As sure as hell Ca. doesn't have everything.

@@jasonlee8156 Sure. Would be stupid to think that any one place have "everything". But California has everything that the original poster mentioned (oceans, mountains, deserts).

No, we don't need more parking garages.

From a European perspective, you dont need more parking, you need alternatives to cars, e.g. busses, subways/trams, trains, bikelanes that people actually want to use without getting overrun by a car/truck. By doing this, you decrease the total number of car ownerships, thereby also the number of parking lots required, you make the population healthier (less airpolution, more fitness activities with by riding bikes or walking to and from stations) and you make transportion in general more accessable for everyone (including the poorer people).

One of our biggest problems is too much parking, too much car focus, too much valuable real estate sitting there for an inanimate car with a very, very low usage rate. No, less cars, less parking, more transit options that ARE NOT CARS will absolutely help California.

@@SaltyDroscho exactly. Get people to react to urbanism RU-vid channels like Not Just Bikes, it’ll be a huge eye opener for everyone as to why American car-centric infrastructure is dragging us down.

We need to STOP paying people to breed. Close the Borders and cut-off the slave trade which allows 90% of the wealth to accumulate in 2% of the people.

Wendover Productions is a conservative content creator so of course he is going to gloss over the failure of Californian Republican rule. While the video bashes the left at 22:38 he fails to mention that until recently California was a purple state, Ronald Reagan was governor of California before becoming president for example. Prop 13 is the proverbial conservative boat anchor left over from California's purple era that keeps dragging the whole state down.

​@@srenchin idk fam i don't think his "left-bashing" was sincere. it reminded me of Cicero's courtroom technique: "the other guy *may be* right, but actually x, y, z" i remember Wendover bashing Trump anyway. naw, Wendover strikes me as a progressive, just the increasingly rare progressive who actually looks at data and wants to help other people

@@srenchin I'm not going to say you're wrong here... but let's stop blaming Reagan. Regan was elected governor over 40 years ago, and for almost my whole life Democrats have had a control here of every branch of government. We can blame him for putting the problems in place (similar to the asylums being shut down with the homelessness crisis) but Democrats have done almost nothing in the decades they've been in charge to actually fix it.

Prop 13? What was that, 50 years ago?

@@spidgeb3292 Yeah and it's . . . . . still a law, sooooo . . . . . kinda still relevant? My street is 60% retired, zero-income households in million dollar houses.

It's really not corporations that are the problem in terms of red tape. Corporations would love for there to be less red tape, more affordable housing, and more workers. The problem is that wealthy individuals, who say they support progressive policies, block them from being implemented anywhere close to their neighborhoods. This results in affordable and multifamily housing never being built in the areas where it makes sense to be build. The fact is that "left-leaning" rich people do not want to live near regular working people. To them we are untouchables that must be segregated out of their utopias, even if that means suffering that grows at an exponential rate.

@@sososo4713eh, I do get it. As someone who grew up poor but was given privilege by God later in life I see both sides. California IS full, and there’s a lot of crime done by the lower classes. ie: San Francisco. If you spent $5 million on a home would you want people who live in inner cities moving in by the masses to raise the crime around you? I grew up in the inner city and I NEVER want to live near those people again. It could seem hypocritical me saying this but I didn’t upgrade via affordable housing units so

I'm from south Carolina and in California. Time to confuse you like all the other Californians lulz. Bojangles Publix waffle House huddle house sweet tea QT. 😂😂😂😂😂

@@hotmess9640If a person can afford a $5 Million home,.. and isnt doing more to help the less fortunate,.. I’d have some words to say about them which I can’t repeat here.

It's almost as if the biggest corporations directly benefit from generally high tax rates that destroy their small-business competition. Entry barrier regulations that the left wing loves so much is exactly what corporations want, which is why the biggest media that they own keep largely supporting the left wing

not so much in the interior of Cali with high mountains and dry desserts. I'd say there is a looooong stretch of country where this IS true like the whole stretch of the south border of the USA.

True, homeless people in places like NYC usually leave for the winter or resort to finding hidden places in urban areas like subways which keeps them warm, meanwhile there are zombie like humans wandering and sleeping around on the streets of warm states like Cali

stop lying to yourself

I'm sure the open air drug markets have nothing to do with it.

Agreed. California's legal system is extremely flawed. Monetary corruption being one of the biggest contributors to this issue.

you'll be happy to know then that california's builder's remedy that is newly in effect requires all cities to plan for more housing and cities cannot not reject developers that meet zoning laws for dumb reasons. it has already forced palo alto, mountain view, and los altos to approve development plans that it otherwise wouldn't have.

It’s sad tbh

@@michellechang827 How do they distinguish dumb from non-dumb reasons? Like a lot of the issue comes down to people with way too much time on their hands coming down to public hearings and protesting every conceivable point on the agenda. Who decides if these concerns are legitimate, and how is that different from how it works today?

@@ohedd California's Housing Element law sets a quota for all cities to build more housing. Normally, cities can have their own local laws to approve or reject housing like density maximums, single family homes, height limits, or declaring itself mountain lion sanctuary like mentioned in the video. But the newly enacted Builder's Remedy allows developers to go above the cities head if the cities housing plans don't meet the quota. the cities have had years leading up to the enforcement of builder's remedy to update their housing plans, but many cities in the bay area failed to make the deadline. so developers can get their plans approved by the state instead of the city.

Yeah i was thinking that many of these things resemble the pacific Northwest, just not the size and scale part. However, Cascadia would be a formidable neighbor with similar social values. It's no surprise that the three west coast states formed a response pact for COVID, and OR/WA be emboldened by California should a national rift form. Unfortunately tho there's a lot of people who support Cascadia on racist grounds and stain the idea.

The difference is that California has far more people than Oregon and Washington combined.

Seattle is pretty much like California just less insane

PacNW is Cali light at this time. And mostly it is about scale.

It’s a lot less pronounced in PNW than Cali but I definitely see the early stages of something similar in the Seattle metro area as it’s been growing faster than infrastructure or policy can adapt to handle for some time.

I hope you didn’t get robbed bro

Love Naples, dense but so safe, safer than any American city, and the melt in your mouth 🍕 😋

​@@jamesedwards1284 I live abroad, near Naples. I've been there many times and it's safe. Safer than Portland anyways 😂

@@spacesabove8780 safer than Portland is like saying a place has better education than Mississippi, not the best example😂

@@isaackolman2861 just taking the chance to shit on Portland

There are countless apartment buildings in CA lol

@@punchnazis3498 evidently not, tf?

Gee if only we didn't send $100 billion to a corrupt country to fight a fake war, we could have actually helped these people...

There are apartment buildings, but not clearly enough to house everyone at the lower income levels. California should be taking pages from Japan's (and Asia in general) playbook in building small apartment complexes (like building 5 family unit apartments on the same plot of currently 1 housing unit of land) but NIMBYism and poor Transportation makes those buildings a pipe dream. In all honesty, the major cities in California should be using Eminent Domain and use rezoning to turn light residential (getting rid of the idyllic single-unit family homes) near Major sections of cities (like Downtown LA) into medium residential density zones (opting for more single building multi-unit apartment buildings). Again, all of what I stated would never EVER come to pass because it'd affect too many lives despite it paving the way for keeping up with the future growing pains of California. As is, there just isn't enough room people-wise in California - which is why many are moving to other states like Texas, Nevada, and Arizona. And the change California needs to make to accommodate the amount of people in California currently would take too long to actually get done.

This is entertainment. Don't take it as factual.

Lumberjacks!

I feel sometimes college is very unnecessary since debt and cost's are really a outrageous problem. Why not just hire a personalized teacher so they come to your house and teach you via 12-17 dollars sub payment every week depending if you are a slow learner or not to teach you every day and eventually test you on required school subjects. Let's say someone wants to be a programmer, which means the private lessons for the job degree you need for programmer is Math's 1 and 2 plus algorithmizes and computer science training pass all that and get a trained degree so you would not need to go to college to jump through unnecessary classes that you should not have to jump through. This would allow every one to get the job they want without the need to waste time with college. this new one on one personalized teacher sub-pay system would allow everyone to go at the pace they want and the teacher can use any teaching method to fit the persons learning curve speed plus this personalized teacher would even treat you to go out to lunch ,or even dinner if things take too long those same personalized teachers still get your payment weekly subs when they come to your house and teach you. I know online classes exists ,but the problem is some people need one on one teaching in person not just screen based PC teaching. The problem with getting jobs right now becomes a "Doubled Edged Sword" is the debt of the college students who go through college besides people should not have to waste time with college to get their dream job since there should be "Personalized Teacher Committee " ,so teachers who want to go solo and get more people the knowledge and skills to get people with both bad and slow learning skills success at getting their college degree's without needing to jump through unnecessary classes and just get those same people through the required classes to get the job they want at their own pace when those "Personalized Teachers" come to your own house to teach you at any pace or even someone's else's house towards anyone at home ready to get their dream job which means those "Personalized Teachers" can focus people who have a terrible time surviving in a college Environment to focus on those people who can finally be free to actually work for a living.

@@1BadAssArchAngelvs14 learn to write for Christ’s sake

@@1BadAssArchAngelvs14 degrees and connections. Some jobs require degrees. and universities can give you connections to jobs and graduate programs/internships etc.

Yeah, sorry BadAss. IMO, besides the unworkable economics of 1 to 1 tutors (there's a new degrees speciality to compete for) most of what you describe is apprenticeship. Damn sure my late father, a master machinist, never read Shakespeare. And that's fine. But many careers require intensive, knuckle down factual learning, often beyond the requisite testing for certification. Then there's the licensing requirements to hopefully keep us safe as they venture into their new careers. On the current 'degree chase... First... job requirements today have vastly overinflated the importance of just having any advanced degree. Period. It's ludicrous how inflated they've become. Second... there was and should be, a secondary benefit to young people seeking education to live, associate and yes... party, with folk of other backgrounds and life experiences. It's first a growth opportunity and also as said... networking for the rest of their life. But it's become the bellwether for much upper career opportunities. And that's the double edged sword.... too many are left behind for merely never having had that boon.

Yet California's critics conveniently ignore how captured its politics are by wealthy conservatives.

​@Doncarlo Agustino ??? They are not the ones making up the majority of people voting for stupid stuff, that is the braindead thralls in San Fran and LA

California hasn't had a republican majority for 30 years. Currently there are 18/80 Republican seats in the state assembly. How can 18 people "capture " the politics there when they don't even hold a quarter of the seats? San Francisco hasn't had a republican mayor in almost 70 years 😂 LA hasn't had a republican mayor since 2001. But please, tell me how this small minority controls California, genuinely curious to see what you come up with

@@KrolKaz The small minority are the rich. There are many conservative democrats. Conservative =/= republican

I'd understand the NIMBY attitude a little bit more, if those same people think the solution is to take from OTHER people and make them "pay their 'fair' share".

There's nothing natural about the housing prices. People only make so much, the "natural" thing to do (if housing is commodified, which it shouldn't be) would be to have people pay rent that is some percent of their income. Not have poor people paying half their paychecks on rent just because it's the "market rate"

Glad things got better for you, man. Thanks for sharing. Keep on keeping on.

Also, other states with far less hospitable winters have a history of sending their homeless to states like Arizona and California, which further increases the population beyond what would be seen as the more standard percentages.

Having been a resident of both NY and CA it is shocking how many homeless live in NY. CA doesn't even have a real winter for most of the population and NY is brutal in comparison. Now Hawaii being high makes a ton of sense. I could live homeless there year round and not even feel that much worse off than if I had a house.

Exactly. If you’re homeless, you’re not going to risk dying in extreme heat or extreme cold, and by default there’s literally only 1 place in the country that would suffice- California.

Just look at how impossible it is to repeal prop 13 which is meant to regulate house prices and bring in tax revenue

Good points. That pulling the ladder up, especially.

The "refugees welcome" image doesn't either.

Most of the homeless comes from these other terribly run states and yet they have the audacity to label California as the homeless capital of the nation when in reality most of the homeless aren’t even from here. California has areas where it is already difficult to get to so imagine being homeless and dropped off in one of those areas and you can’t even leave because of how spaced out California is? I live near the Sacramento area and the only way to get around from town to town is by car since the public transportation is nearly nonexistent, so the homeless are literally trapped here because you can’t just walk these parts freely without a car

@@Johnson-ji6bg No government agencies hand out pipes or foil. There are plenty of other programs that will provide basically the same amount of money for different reasons. That isn't just for the homeless. Pretty much anyone can get that ~$600 a month no matter who you are for one reason or another. There are also no "open use drug policies". A lot of places are so "progressive" they actually don't even let you smoke in public. They don't arrest the homeless unless they are caught in the act doing drugs because arresting every homeless person would cause more problems for the cities than it would fix and it would never stop until you had to make gulag style internment camps to house them all. Do you want to pay more and more taxes to house every crazy homeless person that comes to the state? A huge amount of the homeless here do in fact come from other states because they think there is more money here and will die in the winter otherwise where they are from. Everyone knows that and any of them can tell you that. The problems come from all of the "nonprofit" companies that are exploiting local governments to collect income under the guise of helping the homeless, which happens across the west coast. Idiots like you are completely clueless and only exist and get promoted to dumb down the discussion on these topics so nobody gets held accountable for defrauding the government and so people can sell more weapons/equipment/etc to the heavily militarized police forces they have in this state. The problem is corruption and it isn't exclusive to one party despite what idiots like you and the crazy bay area corporate liberals say.

​@@Johnson-ji6bg Except that other states sending the American Southwest their homeless has been a well-documented thing for at least 20 years. The same thing has been happening to Arizona, who has a very different stance on the issues you feel are the deciding factors. Plus, it was pointed out that the states these homeless were coming from were the sources of these one-way tickets that lead to people leaving the states they originated from.

​@@Jose04537 That's a false equivalent. Mose refugees aren't drug addicts, mentally ill or people who would readily want or accept a homeless lifestyle. I'd argue most refugees would proudly work and want to be part of a community as they were in the war torn areas they came from.

Hi from a fellow New Mexican!

Gotta disagree, people genuinely get more and more aggravated being forced to be crowded next to each other. Many people also enjoy driving their car than walking and interacting with strangers, you wanna force introverts into situations they don't like instead of just respecting their lives? And what exactly is wrong with people using their home as an investment? My dad worked his ass off for decades as an immigrant with no formal education or degree to afford the second property hes now renting out. How dare he want to pass down something for his kids to inherit that is going to be worth a lot. I guess I shouldn't inherit it, all in the name of giving money to someone whose young or poor? Oh wait I'm young and poor, so youre just making me more poor and not any younger.... Nah as far as I can tell, you think the person born here who actually had plenty of opportunities compared to 3rd world countries where immigrants and their descendants came from, should be given that money instead of the person who came from nothing and made his own opportunity. I'm sure you mean good, but everything you said seems like the most inconsiderate naive thing ever.

​@RAAM855 the main problem is the fact your dad shouldn't have gad to work hella to get a house. Housing is a necessity and the system in place bow favors the old while taking resources from the shrinking working youth to give to the increasingly growing elderly.

@AfroSoundHouse if you didnt read what I said then yeah, norhin. Can't imagine bein illiterate and commenting on yt

​@@RAAM855 dude travel outside US. Get a passport ; get a life. Whole world lives in big dense cities - rich people in Dubai live in big dense city. How will you know ? You don't travel.

@@ahmedzakikhan7639 lol you don't have a life if you don't live in a city? Nah I like gods green earth. You can keep your technoworship hives. I've seen more life with the mountains and the forests than you ever have.

Haha that’s funny because in the 90’s my parent took my 5 year old brother and my 6 mo old self out of California since the Bay Area was getting too congested and expensive.

@@jesseeswain3079 And out here in Modesto, it just keeps getting more expensive, thankfully I have a cdl, so if I ever need to bail out of here, employment won't be an issue

Should have chosen better parents.

Yes, you can sleep outside here nearly every night of the year with the moderate temperatures, and lack of extreme weather in other parts of the country.

I saw a video before where the person went to a desert town in California and asked about their ancestry and found everyone mostly came from Oklahoma during the dust bowl days. (Read John Steinbeck's novel for more information). Overall, it pointed out that these people were more likely to be very independent thinkers and not highly educated. Some of these people also made up part of the homeless. I used to live in Portland and I wouldn't have believed this until I met local politician whose grandfather was an Okie who rose up to be mayor of a suburb and he completely ruined it and went on to ruin almost everything he touched. No big government, no co-operation, everything NIMBY, basically argued that the town should remain stupid and poor (cut funding for education) like it always had been. This was 20 years ago. I see that the problem hasn't improved at all.

Law enforcement needs to make it even hotter. Problem solved.

Yeah, absolutely, winter in the Northeast and Midwest can be brutal and lethal in ways that it can't be out on the CA coast. But also, those places that deindustrialized often have buildings left over that can be repurposed/rezoned without as much trouble. Superfund sites aside, warehouses can be turned into self storage spaces, mills turned into lofts, etc. While in LA, everything is already single family and would need to be built up instead of revitalized.

I’ve seen plenty of homeless in skid row in LA and it is not a glitzy beach town 😂

I lived in CA 20 years and experienced what you describe. It is tragic. Arrogance and ignorance is always the worst combination.

Ah, yes, the overwhelmingly Californian urge to re-invent the wheel (for values of "wheel" that include "2D quadrilateral, but also a 3D pyramid, yet it must still be describable by the general equation of a torus"), to the tune of billions of dollars of taxpayers money. And they wonder why charging you for the privilege to leave isn't deterring anyone.

How American of them

America's America.

@@alexandrefisher980 sorry, but that's clown show nonsense. From wendover and from anybody else. We're not just a more different Europe. We're a federal republic with a constitution and a common-law tradition. There are a whole host of legal reasons why what might work in Europe wouldn't work in the US. There' are very few legal reasons why what works in Pennsylvania wouldn't work in California. None that can't be solved by the state legislature anyway..

😂😂😂 right. I was so confused lol

Yeah this is one of the worst videos he's made yet. Makes absolutely no sense how California which is already extremely isolated and experiencing massive social unrest and wealth disparities would actually benefit from seceding. California is extremely dependent on federal aid grants. Can you imagine if they had a major earthquake after the fire season? They would go broke over night unable to call upon the US to help support it

@@jamesmt95 At the same time, CA would have way more money to solve problems. Don't forget that California pays for 20% of the US tax revenue. So if they did secede, they would have nearly 200 billion dollars that won't go to the US government, and can be spent locally. But even so, its a bad idea overall, given how closely tied CA's economy is to the rest of the US. It would be a plethora of political problems, much like the UK exited the EU, except way more complicated.

Haha, if California did not have the rest of the country to bail them out, they would be in literal bankruptcy

@@jamesmt95California would have the 5th largest economy in the world beating all but Germany China Japan and the US so I think it could afford it

Most if not ALL the Cali homeless are from other states.

I disagree. The reason a person became homeless (insufficient income, addiction, medical problems, etc.) don't just go away simply because they are given a new home. Without personalized long term care, they could just become homeless again.

Hope you wouldn't vote for the same politics that made California a s-ho1e in the first place like many Californian immigrants do

Until Democrats took over about 25 years ago.

Just give it a few years you will feel the same way about your country also, and may have to consider leaving for a more affordable place to live without having to work 3 jobs to pay the cost to experience the “American Dream”

Hope you vote right

It is still livable for regular people, I'm proof. I make a good living in tech, but I'm just a joe with a mortgage and a family to feed. There is the 'sunshine tax' as I call it, but it's worth it to me.

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It's all about the corruption but he doesn't really touch it For example San Fran spends over 85k per year per homeless person to non profits to solve the homeless problem. La is the same way the whole state is just a massive Democrat fraud. Look up how much LA spends. Check out Newsom privatizing the water. It costs over 100k for permits in LA that provide no value

Its a narrow window of opinion. Fact is California wouldn't have its problems if it had retained its post war demographics, and relied on almost exclusively internal immigration alone.