California has the worst quality of life

Make you wonder whether the post is necessary :slight_smile: Somehow I got a feeling organization has a lot of slack. There are so many stories that many employees are working on side projects :grinning: and plenty of evidences that they are blogging during office hours too :joy:

So much activity here in this forum… go back to work people!

Someone willing can create tons of jobs as we speak.

Go to one of those job platform like Monster, indeed, or zip recruiter. Create a recruiters account. Then open your own job posting for anyone you like. Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Bio Technology, Chip Designers.

Remember: Just having openings does not mean you are under obligation to hire. Collect resumes and get follow up calls from your candidates.

If you have a Corporation or LLC, you can create positions left and right in the name of your company.
Do not worry. Creating Req does not mean you have to hire someone.

We are still on this? I am trying to hire multiple people right now. It is impossible. There is so much competition for labor. There may be fake postings out there (startup trying to posture, etc.) but right now companies are struggling to find enough talent.

California Is Losing Young People and Texas Is Getting More of Them

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-09/california-loses-its-young-while-texas-basks-in-youthful-glow?srnd=premium

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On complain I have read from the people in areas who receive migrants from California is that migrants bring their “California Values” with them. Younger people carry less baggage and adopt to their new neighborhood better.

Wait… More gas taxes will solve it… :slight_smile:

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Oh the irony when the gas tax is going to public transit and not roads.

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CA covert long term policy goal is to make it very painful to own a car(high insurance+high gas prices+high registration+bad roads+no new roads- choked roads).

Problem is CA is equally bad or worse in giving the public the OTHER choice, i.e. creating new public transit options(very expensive, highly inefficient, takes forever to build, takes forever to get to your destination when you use public transit(3x or more) unlike say in Japan or other transit friendly countries- not spread even close to requirement & frequency is low and doesn’t match up to public needs).

Maybe this is why Uber+Lyft will flourish, although… with the driver/contractor rule, CA is striking there as well.

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This article explains who is leaving/coming to California.

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America used to have rail-based transportation in the early 20th century. They failed. Rail based transportation system is rarely profitable anywhere in the world. Public transportation means a bureaucrat decides when you travel and what path you take. Cars are truly a personal means of transportation. Having a car means having your own wheels and freedom to travel at will. That is why socialists hate it.

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Looks like people are going everywhere. The “most often” numbers are very small percentages of the whole. While it is somewhat normal for the elderly to leave as urban centers become less liveable and rising wages no longer benefit them (they cost them in terms of getting a plumber, roofer, etc.) the loss of lower income workers is problematic. You just can’t run a major urban center long term if lower income service providers can’t live there. Homogenization of the population is also an issue.

:+1:

Need gardeners, helpers for restaurants/ grocery stores/ big boxes, and handymen at reasonable price.

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The Bay Area isn’t even a cultural center. I have a cousin in New Jersey (Princeton) who’s rich enough and into the arts enough to get on a plane and fly to Italy just to see a performance by someone who’s got a good “Verde voice.” How often does he board a plane to see anything cultural in the Bay Area? Never. This is true even of LA to some extent. Once you get passed Hollywood there isn’t much there. No one flies into LA to see culture; they come just to take some selfies and say they were there.

Great! We need these ambassadors from California to spread our Californian values. California leads and the whole country follows. :+1:

San Francisco is dying because people with hot, highly marketable skills are moving in:

The demographics of the city are quickly changing, too. According to an analysis by the Golden Stats Warrior, families making more than $100,000 per year are moving here at a much faster rate than those making under $60,000 a year. Data was gathered from an analysis of U.S. Census data from 2013-17.

But wait, even people making less are coming too. Must be another reason why Bay Area is dying!

Twenty-three thousand more people from families making at least $100,000 arrived than left each year, while people making under $60,000 arriving annually is just 3,000 higher than the number of people leaving.

Our Asian food will knock your socks off!

Movers that identify as Asian dominate who is arriving in the Bay Area, with an estimated 30,000 moving in each year.

It’s plain and simple. Ambitious people, the hustlers, the dreamers, the entrepreneurs, these people come to Bay Area and California, rich or poor. :rocket:

Those who are not, left. :wave:

It’s a life style choice.

That was decades ago. No one wants to be like CA anymore - least of all the people who choose to live elsewhere.

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Culture is a complex idea. It consists of three layers starting from the bottom (1) beliefs (2) formalized statements, and (3) behavior and artifacts.

I do not know how far apart is California Culture from California Complex, but if I have to discuss it purely at the level of beliefs, at the bottom most layer to be precise, I would want to stay away from those whose belief tell that sea level will rise by 100 feet in next 10 years. And they use that fear and hysteria to tax the heck out of me. Sorry.

And if they didn’t have that they’d invent something else. It’s what they do.