The California Dream Is DEAD.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- What the hell happened to California???
California! This state had it all people. The glitz, the glamour the awesome weather. It was easy to see why so many people flocked here for the last 100 years. I mean look at the place. It really is probably the prettiest of all states with the coasts and the mountains and deserts.
And the economy here has been booming too - you know with the tech boom in the bay area, the agriculture in the central valley and all that is in southern california with more tech, banking, arts and entertainment, transportation and of course, TOURISM.
The health care system here is pretty good, a lot of people make a lot of money and the weather here is pretty darn good. It’s the most populous state and can be considered the world’s 5th biggest economy.
So what’s the problem?
A LOT is the problem. Today’s California is not the same California from before. We’ll hear it from the people who live there eventually, but you don’t have to ASK people from California why it’s become such a lousy place to live. Just look at what’s happening there.
That’s what this video is about. How the California dream has become the California nightmare. Lots of people are leaving here now, and you could say California is never going to be the same again. I grew up in California and I left 11 years ago, and when I go home, I’m reminded of WHY I left and glad I made the decision to flee California for good. Let’s take a look at why the California dream is dead.
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Teach those selfish greedy homeowners a lesson by raising property taxes! If they're actively fighting to limit the supply of affordable housing because it devalues their property appraisals, then these homeowners should have no problem paying their fair share in property taxes!
i was a teacher in Sacramento, making 58k a year, at the end of the year, i would have saved about 1,500 dollars. I left and moved to Africa, in 2015, saving 20k a year
Hey Nick, do you ever consider how the food is affecting the way people function? Why don't you include more of agricultural issues of California? The state has done monocrops for so long thats the reason why the land has all become barren. The herbicides and pesticides and agrochemicals and animal rearing has what ruined it. Organic diverse crops and growing rotationally is what will fix california's farmland and the world's farmland.
California sucks because Democrats are actually a right wing party. Capitalists to the bone.
@@minhchien462 I have a better idea to satisfy those who think the government should build houses for them.
Move to communist Russia. They build housing for "everyone" there. They build fabulous homes for their citizens!
Look it up.
being a california resident myself, as much as it’s heartbreaking to hear all these sad truths, they are all TRUTH. i don’t see myself retiring in this state. i’m leaving soon. the state has reached a point of no return.
@W They don't know better or they want free stuff while people who actually need free stuff (single able bodied men and women with no children) can't or don't because they don't have children.
Your absolutely right in that CA has reached the point of no return. The Federal Government is going to step in soon and take control. I live on the East Coast and we can see it coming. There's no other way...
@@Whats-It-To-Ya How will the federal government will take control?
@@MinistryofOtaku Probably Martial Law to some degree or another. After that, regulations will more than likely be imposed. I'm not sure exactly what, I'm not a politician. Their gonna do something, they almost have to...
@@Whats-It-To-Ya You are spot on and I truly believe we will see martial law.
TRUE! I hate to agree with you. I have never seen it this BAD!!!! People, please don’t come here, we are literally stepping over homeless people. I’M SERIOUS!!!!
I don't remember homeless tents in 86. Unbelievable!!!
The issues with California are by design. They want to depopulate the state because they no longer can support it (water, energy, transit). Horrible administration is their way of doing it since they can't forcibly remove law-abiding people anymore. Californians still think that trying to vote for good candidates will improve things. This is not a democrat-republican issue since if there were republican leaders, the end elitist goal would still be the same. The system is rigged and the goal is for multi-millionaires and billionaires to remain and to take the state from the middle class. They possibly want to depopulate the state by 75% to post-WW2 level.
Homeless-ness is also leading to un-civility. You can already see it in those folks just stealing off those supermarket shelves.
@@dachicagoan8185 By design agreed. The greedy are now repulsively richer. People in the midwest say that what happens in California, happens here. It just takes about ten years
it is literally (and litterally) true. i have to traverse the sidewalks of downtown L.A. on occasion. in a number of sections, this equates to walking through the living rooms/bedrooms of unhinged, drug-addled psychotics who feel you have entered their space. their "canopies" extend well into the middle of the sidewalk.
I’m not American but I’ve been to America several times as a tourist and it is very surprising to see all the famous spots in California just covered in tents and homeless people.
You get what you vote for.
@@glitch200except our votes don't count cause they count the votes...
This has been a third world country but people don't see it.
As a California resident, I can confirm.
it’s so dead.
It’s sad that the only reason we haven’t moved in the last decade is because my parents are too old to re-locate. Family comes first.
Why didn't you move your parents with you - my massage therapist did.
Too old to relocate? Not with that attitude 😅
My wife and I moved from California to Colorado a year ago because the cost, the homeless, the constant bullshit. She still cries sometimes because how much she misses the beach, the surfing, etc. But we both wholeheartedly agree that California is beyond saving, and is destined to only get worse. Its a national disgrace.
Sorry to hear. Have faith in good being restored. We are all in this together as a country
I've got news for you: Colorado ain't too far behind.
@@timetowakeup6302 there’s some liberal BS here, but it’s nowhere near as bad as Cali.
Tell that to the people who live in Redondo beach, Manhattan beach, Hermosa Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Malibu. They are 1000% happy.
Hopefully you didn't bring your failed politics from California with you.
Nick has done a really good job exposing the problems in California.
You make it seem as if Cali is hiding its problems, they ain't, people simply choose to ignore it or don't care. Most under class residents of Cali can see the problems.
@@linusmayden8465 most people know California has problems, however a lot of people don’t realize how bad it really is.
Problems are everywhere in the country. How about the opioid epidemic in w.virginia? Or the meth problem Missouri?
THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE.
@@ellenlee1 The problem is also inaction. A lack of a will to do something about the problem.
I’m proud to say I lived in California when it was the best, including San Francisco for fifty years. This breaks my heart, literally. I moved to Colorado in 2005 and I never went
back nor will I ever. At least nobody can take my memories away from me.
figuratively
My boss grew up there in the 60s and 70s. Sounds like a dream the way it was back then compared to now the way he talks about it. That being said alot of colorado people are sick of cali people taking over denver bringing that wokeness with them.
Agree 👍 walnut creek to Santa Cruz family all throughout California here
North Idaho doesn't like us California but now you hardly see anyone from Idaho it's all north California in north Idaho
Do you still vote blue????
I left San Diego in 2006. A studio was $650. Also as far as education, it was a two year waitlist to start any nursing program. I was a newly single parent with a toddler and a one-year-old. I moved back to my home town of Pittsburgh, I rented a two bedroom house for $650 a month. I became a nurse in a few years, and I bought a house a three bedroom house for $75,000. I am so glad I left when I did. I have no doubt that me and my sons would’ve probably ended up homeless if I had stayed.
May I ask, why did you move to California in the first place?
@@dannysunay4386 a job
650 is not a lot at all, Florida you get a 3bed home for 400$ a month, here in Massachusetts I got a 3bed apartment for almost 2000 and I live in the shit area of mass lol
In Commiefornia, $75,000 will buy you a shoebox!
You're so lucky. Such a house costs about $950,000 on average these days in San Diego California.
I'm just getting SO sick of people not wanting to discuss the politics that have resulted in this. It's like people think our country getting worse is magic and there's nothing we can do about it. Social spending via the federal reserve's money printing have caused a massive divide over the last 50 years.
Not to mention bailing out anybody rich
Came covid to distract everyone and give politicians an excuse to brush off homeless issues
In the NW homeless issues are discussed but that's it. Maybe the new tiny villages in Seattle will be the beginnings of something good
Well, this is the result of Democrat/progressive political policies 100%, I am not a Democrat or a republican. They got nobody to blame but themselves.
@@luvyatubers That's why they wanted everyone inside... I was homeless and facts, 2020 was waves of people trying to find a place to sleep.
We lived in CA for 36 years, retired and left 6 years ago because of "high cost of living", and NEVER regreted leaving!
Hi Ella! Where’d you end up?
Good for you guys!!! You got to enjoy it when it was good and got out.
Good. Stay out.
Hopefully not voting in the type of politics that killed Cali wherever you are now 🙏
I traded Blue California for equally Blue Colorado. Since I don’t live in the city, things are so much better than they are in California and the quality of life suits me.
Here in Bellingham, Washington, the Target stores are just unbelievably under attack from theft, you can sit there and watch from after dark to closing people just walking out with cart full of stuff, the police have to just let some go to catch others, every like 4 min someone is walking out with carts full of stollen items. It’s so sad. I have lived here since birth, in fact on the same road. And do not want to move, I have built my life here. So very sad
Well, the mayors did defend the "Autonomous Zones", what did they think was going to happen?
Seattle, my son’s truck was stolen. 👮♀️ cop said so what 🤷🏼♂️
This actually made me cry a bit. I have been dreaming of living in Southern California since I was little (born in Paraguay and grew up in Connecticut), and about a year and a half ago, I used up all of my savings and moved to San Diego. I haven't been able to fully put all of what has been wrong here into words, so this video really helped me to understand why I have been so miserable. People are stressed and as a result aren't very kind, the homeless situation is scary as hell, I spend 60% of my paycheck on housing and feel like I can't call the police about anything because it is known that they won't do anything to help you. As a single, working mom, it is a very uncomfortable place to raise a child. So very sad.
I can relate. I live in San Diego, as well. I'm also from New England and it was a dream for so long, but I'm miserable here and work all the time.
WHY in the heavens would you move from Connecticut to the desert?!!! I live in Rhode Island and I love it (shhhh, don't tell the Californians, we just got rid of the NYC-ers)...
Come to Texas!! It’s hot as HELL during the summer BUT as long as you got a pool you’re good. The cost of living ain’t too bad. Not yet anyway.
@@KristinaKarina because the desert is beautiful and you can see so much of the gorgeous sunny sky without all the ugly east coast trees clogging up the sky and the weather is wonderful year round unlike depressing east coast cold winters
They really need to stop allowing shoplifting.
not gonna happen, time to MOVE
@@dontstalkmedeltoro8816 What do they do in other states when somebody steals something? The police come and arrest. Maybe security holds them till the police arrive? Why on Earth would anyone believe it is a good idea to look the other way as people steal up to $900.00 at a time from stores? Seems kind of dumb to me.
I don't know why they blocked out the faces of the shoplifters.
@@dontstalkmedeltoro8816
Yours, is such an idiotic comment I am actually embarrassed for you.
Theft has been a societal problem since humanity began. Every place on this planet has figured out something to do about it. Allowing it has never been a choice anywhere, til now, in California.
Gee.....ya think? In my world....their hands would be chopped off and fed to hungry dogs. And yes, I've heard MANY people WANT to live in my world.
My husband and I made the big move out of CA a month ago. If we stayed we would have been homeless ourselves. We could no longer afford our house anymore. My husband has health issues and not able to work. I could not afford to live there just on my income alone. As we were leaving CA we saw a homeless camp along the freeway and there was a homeless man taking a 💩 right on the side of the freeway. We knew we were making the right decision to get the hell out. Now we are in a red state and we have a chance to get ahead and make it. I got a job and it will be enough income for us.
Good luck!
Congrats and god bless you on your journey:) sorry you had to go through that ik moving bc of finances is very traumatic❤️
Curious.... how many left leaning individuals would vote red in their new home state if Donald ran again? 🤔
what state
Did the Same, up here with others,tried to go back,lost everything barely made it out , homeless camps everywere San Lorenzo Ashland to lake Don Pedro House, Northern California to North Idaho
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Fascinating thank you subscibed. Always wanted to move to America and 89s kid grew up seeing california as a artist guess had california dream
Gross. People pooping and pissing on the streets. I haven’t even seen that where I grew up in Brazil. Even the homeless there have more self respect than to do that in plain sight
A situação tá feia por la mesmo
We got some real entitled mothafkrs in this country unfortunately.
Looking like Castlevania
they are extremely mentally ill and on drugs most of the time
Yeah it's like they think they're in India or something
I left California about 10 years ago because of Sacramento's government.... My family sold their ranch which was in our family for 118 years.. Water police, anti 2nd. Amt.. Homeless sleeping in our fields, pot growing in our wooded area, building permits, laws n rules, over crowding, ect. When we called the police they wouldn't even remove these squatters from our land.. We moved back into America n never looked back........ be well.
btw, We were brainwashed thinking California was soooo much better than all the other states, lol. Everyone talks about the good weather n family but airfare is cheap to visit family and there are plenty of states that have good weather.. Plus taxes, car insurance, local government is friendly n no water police or protesters or riots...... be well.
@@MegaBait1616 California is not better, it's actually the worst. The better place is 3000 miles away, it's called the East Coast, but don't tell anybody or they'll all show up here and we don't have enough shotgun shells. Keep it a secret. 👍
@@Whats-It-To-Ya , I know just bought a house in NC moved from the N.J. shore another commie blue run state..... Taxes, car insurance, property taxes, water, government ect. are way cheaper.. Friendly people also........ be well.
@@MegaBait1616 New York and Jersey are the hellholes of the East. Everywhere else is pretty good. Smart choice moving to the Carolinas, nice place to live. I personally live in Allentown, PA and It's not bad at all. Lived here almost all my life except for two years in Eugene Oregon but I don't wanna talk about that 😅
@@Whats-It-To-Ya , Pa. is beautiful but is government is corrupt Philly is an open drug market for Fentanyl most of rest of the state is really nice been looking around Allentown n the eastern part of your state.. In NC the weather is mild with mountains n the ocean.. In Fla. right now fishing but too hot here in the summer.... Been to Cabelas on I-78 million times :) Yes N.J. n N.Y.C. are shxxholes except for the shore ocean side of Jersey which is all conservative run But, The large cities of the state have the voting #'s plus this mail-in voting ballots are bullshxx.. Can't believe with how many work in fracking n the supporting jobs n your state voted for potato head.......smh.......be well.
Not just California Dream, the US Dream is dead.
Love your videos Nick. Very informative!
I love this state and I have fond memories of it from many years ago. It was beautiful. It's sad and disgusting what the politicians have done to it and it's crazy that RESIDENTS of California keep voting the same people in.
I really don't think they are.
@@moonmoon3743 same
Have the people voted them in or did the Dominion machines vote them in? I think California is being deliberately attacked by some powerful entities that control the votes and banks/finances.
The liberal politicians should be ashamed in California. They are causing these hardships to the people.
And they don't do anything. They do care.
@@bonniechase5599 That could possibly be true, but I've definitely seen a handful of Californians in support of these politicians, which is why I made that statement. There are some Californians who have realized that they made a huge mistake voting for these politicians and others who seem to be on a high degree of Stockholm Syndrome.
I used to be a liberal San Deigan, grew up in a nice house and believed that all people wanted the best for society. Now I see that the problem is the government thinking that if you throw enough money at a problem human nature will do the rest. Like I used to. But in reality they're giving people fish without teaching them how to catch them, and then expecting them to have more fish than they were given.
I agree with you I grew up pretty upper middle class life I found myself in a very abusive relationship and then immediately homeless for The last 5 years I'm a small statured woman people don't seem to understand they just want you to get up run out there get a great job going your way the first thing we have to do when we wake up is find out where we're going to get something to eat today what are we going to get a clean outfit are we going to be able to get a shower I'll be able to get money or something to get on the bus to get some resources I'm finding out to bend over 8 billion dollars in resource given out in one year period where are all these billions going to these nonprofits now what are these non-profits doing with all these billions so so upset.
@@michelegamble9557 bruh use punctuation
@@michelegamble9557 Yup, all its doing is making the NGO's and the "homeless industrial complex" rich, not helping very many people (if any) at all. I hope you are doing better now. Tough times never last, but tough people do. God Bless and take care.
It's a shame that back then you weren't even able to use your brain to see past the present to see how dumb your way of thinking was. Real shame
@@ROBIN_SAGE and tell me how many times have you voted to change this ?
When he spoke about the Mexican people being indifferent to it is so true. I literally the other night was in an argument with my cousin who lives in LA and tried to tell him where he lived was ghetto and nasty and he wasn't hearing it and was defensive.
Just nasty people
California is tijuana now
Non assimilating 3rd world people coming here illegally has ruined it 🤬
cali is what you make of it. i live in orange county and its beautiful, theres palm trees everywhere and a beautiful ocean perfect for surfing and swimming in the summer, so refreshing. the sun is perfect for a tan, beautiful weather. the food is world class and theres just about every luxury available at your fingertips. shopping, eating, leisure, fitness, and all lifestyles. houses are big and beautiful along the coast and hills, cars are fast and idk, california is pretty nice. i think its a state of mind, what you make of it that gives you your experience
hahahahahahahahaha, keep clinging to that raft, you're going to need it!!!
I left a year ago and drove around the country for 6 months, all over the country, and it's crazy how bad it looks everywhere... Every city is overwhelmed with homeless and 70s style vibe
First you have to abandon certain states (like CA).....then you need to not explore ANY big city in ANY state ....then after that you can find places that aren't totally FUBARED yet. The key is research. Nothing good is easy to find in this society. You have to be proactive.
most large cities are crap . " the great white flight " took place and the money moved to the suburbs and gated communities. What you see are the poor left behind . I was once told something once and it seems to hold true. if you want to ruin a neighborhood put in a bus stop .
Big cities especially those with Dems in charge are a mess.
70s style vibe? What's that? I've never lived in california, so, it must be some sort of inside knowledge of a long vanished decade...when things were better?
What do you expect? California was the standard for a long time. Its a ripple effect.
It’s just filthy now. I went out there every summer as a kid to stay with my aunt and uncle in Pasadena. It was paradise. So many great restaurants, fun people, the WEATHER! Now it’s a hellhole.
Pasadena a shithole? lol are you out of your mind? Its probably one of the nicer places.
Lol how weird to hear of Pasadena being a shit hole, sounds like you don't know what a real shit hole is, you must have had an easy life smh
It must have been in 2000 already, my friends were dissapointed when there drove there, I stayed in LV and later in NYC until my holiday was over, that was the last time I went there for a holiday
You nailed it, I graduated HS in 2003 and stopped going out there every summer regularly, but I still visit occasionally. Pasadena is still pretty nice but DTLA is a nightmare.
Filthy state for a filthy people. It's a perfect match
Born and raised Californian. Finally gave up and left
Great Insight
Hope Things Turn Around For Yhe Best Soon.
I've lived in L.A. all my life and its so sad to see what it has become under such poor political leadership. Politicians refer to it as a housing problem, but it's really not. Most of the vagrants living on the streets are either drug addicted or mentally ill and don't even want to be housed. They need to be treated, not housed. The city has started buying up old motels throughout the city and sticking them in hotel rooms, but that's merely a Band-Aid and doesn't even begin to solve the actual problem. Have you noticed that local politicians have already spent billions - and keep asking for more money - for homelessness, but the problem keeps getting worse, not better? That money feeds the "Homeless Industrial Complex," which keeps sucking up the big bucks while nothing is being done. And the amazing thing is that voters continue to vote for the politicians that created the mess that California has become. Wake up, people.
I was in a nice little refuge from the crime, overcrowding, and much of the rest of the insanity that is this state - I lived in the town of Paradise, CA. As a fire refugee I ended up in Rohnert Park, CA, and my job involved lots driving around here, including a lot of time in highway 101 through Marin County. I have no future here, and 2022 will be the year I leave this state for good. I'll miss the scenery and the mild weather here, but the crowds, traffic, crime and insane housing costs leave me little choice.
Napa county res here and I couldn’t agree with you more!
We’ve been taken over by tourism. Everything is catered to them. We can’t even eat out in our town besides fast food and even that is outrageous. It’s all gross.
Best wishes to you, us and those of us just tryna stay afloat.
I lived in a little duplex surrounded by pine trees, and the rent when I moved in (in February of 2017) was $650.00 a month. It dated from 1948, and it was far from perfect, but it was affordable, and even had a place to put a washer and dryer. My landlady had insurance, and she has rebuilt several of her rentals since the fire, but the rent on the new ones is now $1800.00 a month. Many, many of the people who could afford to live in the old version of Paradise will never be able to afford to live in the new version.
@@smang7866 When I would go to St. Helena for work, finding a place to park was always a chore. The little two lane highways are crowded with tourists who have no idea how to drive on roads that have curves.
Ya well they just voted old Gavin back in with about the same 63% or so that he got before his recall so I don’t feel sorry, they voted for this crap 💩 so they have to live with it 🤷🏻♂️
Magalia too - gone in the same fire. No future, no where affordable. Family moved out of state.
hey C-store, I am just here for cofffee... nothing else, THANK YOU!
Thank you!
Me: "Should you need an ID to vote?"
Californian: "That's discrimination"
Me: "Can I have a tall coffee?"
Californian: "Papers and ID please"
You can have a plastic bag but we charge 10cent per each.😂
This is so true. I went to go vote to the nearest voting booth center by my house. This happened during the recall of Newsome. I offered my ID and they said that won’t be necessary, just verify my info off the screen. I voted for Larry btw.
Don't get me wrong , a lot of people coming in California as well but they aren't very poor people that will draw welfare . The middle class moving out and this alone is what will end California.
@@orangec.c7167 sometimes a dollar.
@@orangec.c7167 they should ban plastic bags.
Great job on explaining how things gotten bad in California.
its not that bad
Los angeles is such a big city There are a lot of beautiful places there this vid just encourages everyone to stop moving USA duh
@@gottahaveawawa7494 It's ranked as having the lowest quality of life out of all states in the US.
OH IT IS THAT BAD ACTUALLY ITS WORSE. I LIVED IN SAN BERNARDINO CA. POSSIBLY THE WORST CITY IN AMERICA. YOU DRIVE DOWN A MAIN ROAD AND THERES TENTS ON THE SIDEWALKS VERY SAD
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I lived in Huntington Beach... now I am afraid I can't go back to retire. What's happening to my home state breaks my heart.
I am a Home Inspector in South Alabama, I have inspected more homes for people that have moved here from California in 2021 than I have in all the time I have been a Home Inspector.
Wow!!
Remind them to not bring their bullshit to Bama
Must be a lot of TERMITES to be inspected
@@bamajaybird74 cant destroy bama more than it already is.
@@hi_lo574 They are bad and get worse every year.
I'm not republican but you have to admit California needs new leadership
I have lived all over the country and California is by far the worst place i have ever lived.
@@IIII...... Now thats just true.I lived in Florida for 4 years Las Vegas then California.
Florida does look alot nicer than California.
But it is almost as expensive to live there.
And the welfare system is not out of control like California
Try New Mexico if you want to see where CA is headed. Last in education, second worse in crime, third worse in salary. Democrats and their open border policy ruined everything. All they did was to flood the state with poverty and criminals.
@Big Dick Black Yes, almost all them were democrat strongholds but democrats only left after they destroyed the economy.
@@RS-ls7mm When was Ohio a Democrat stronghold? Almost absolutely nobody but Ohioans stay there, and of ALL the 5 times this bellwether state has been wrong about presidential elections all the candidates they have been wrong about were Democrats (Grover Cleveland both times, FDR’s 4th election, JFK, and Joe Biden). Were all rustbelt states democratic while they were booming?
@@devincampbell5007 Which part of "almost all" did you not understand? Ohio generally follows the path of most successful states with regards to politics (balanced) but got screwed by a lot of factors. The rust belt was a direct result of unions pushing wages so high the US businesses couldn't compete with the rest of the world. In case you forgot unions are a left wing concept. Unions started off as a good idea but quickly became corrupt and self defeating.
Just sold my home on Long Island, bought a house 20 minutes from Greensville, South Carolina Pickens county. I seen the review you left about that. I’m so happy I’m jumping
Love your narration Nick! True and to the point.
California dream back in the day: buy a house, maybe have a family, start a new business, go to the beach, live peacefully
California dream today: 3k a month for a apartment/studio/garage
You forget insane level crime and homelessness and drugs💉💉💉💉
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When my relatives moved to Glendale in 1955, they bought a beautiful home for $20K, with 2/3 acre of land under it. The property taxes were almost nothing. Yes, I know we must factor in inflation, but inflation does not account the rise in home prices.
Recent youtube channels suggest that even the liberals are fed up here, and are moving out.
Lol that's literally Australia too
you can still live cheap in california the guy in the video referenced sf bay area La metro/soCAL and the coast line and yea that makes up millions BUT theirs almost 10Million californians that live inland and pay 1100 for a small apartment not 2000. you can still live cheap and have a beautiful quiet neighborhood with wild turkeys around the beauty of life. You may live more then 1hour away from the coast but theirs MORE to california then the coast. Its very on sided i hate that nobody thinks about the 10million that dont relate to this video
I've lived in Idaho all my life 3rd generation, went down for 12 weeks this year to work in California..So much sadness all over! The government should be ashamed of themselves! I'm so blessed to raised in Idaho. As a realtor I've seen an influx of California families trying to get away from the craziness in their state.
totally mismanaged. tell you what to do, but doesn't apply to those voted in.
no tracking of money designated for homeless. overtax business over regulate homeowners under educate children.
If they are DEMS and Libs....keep them AWAY from MY STATE please! We don't NEED their INFECTION thank you.
It's Democrats, they only care about pronouns and plastic straws
Yeah I’m in Idaho too. It’s booming from people moving here from California and the Portland/Seattle area
@@trailblazeratv6306 Let's hope they are NOT Dems and Libs.....if they are, then they are bringing THE INFECTION with them...and I don't mean Covid either.
I'm 81. Born in an orange grove in 1942. I live in the East Bay now in Contra Costa County. The disaster that has happened is all due to libtard Democrats and their insane policies. Gavin Newsom is a narcissistic monster. This is a one party state with zero law and order. You can steal up to $950 without consequence in LA , San Francisco and Oakland, so stores are closing in these Soros funded District Attorney cities. I love my state and I hate the government. Homelessness is now a government industry on both the city and state level. There is an insanity behind these policies which precludes any sane and sober discussion. Democrats are without any real reason and seem to be hellbent on destroying the very state they control.
Just what exactly did Newsom do? Does just raising taxes, borrowing and spending cause this much harm?
I have known a countless number of people in my life who have told me that "it doesn't matter who you vote for."
It is more obvious every day that it does matter who you vote for. California is the perfect example of this.
Well its our fault we had the chance to get rid of Newsom once and it was shot down
I voted against Newsom but too many people brainwashed by media. Now the frog is boiling.
Yes, I escaped CA only to find myself in another declining state. Democrats destroyed both them with their open border policy. All it did was flood the country with poverty and criminals.
That's why they are there with BIG PROBLEM
@Big Dick Black Now its the SW and NW turn.
It's absolutely disgusting and sad, what these California politicians have done to that state. California it a dirty nasty toilet now, and that's how they want it. Five hundred thousand people leaving. That is a lot of people, they got tired of putting up with the garbage. It's absolutely shocking, to see all that homeless. And it will get much worse. Well said Nick, and it's just really sad to see all that.
California has a severe obsession with the love of money, and the people fleeing California. Are the ones that see that, with out of control pricing of homes. No affordable housing, these people want a better life.
the leaders in office want it to suck.
You get WHAT you VOTE FOR......live with it.
So you are advocating for Socilisism?
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 hate never got us postive progress
@@1981menso no reasonable person wants that. We want freedom
Keep voting democrat. They will probably fix it eventually. Right?
I have never even been to California, but this was a very good video, all the people you had on , were very clear about the issues there ,,
I don't know why these people are so upset about what their state has come to, seeing as they voted for it over and over and over again. Insanity AND a lack of responsibility, eww.
We need to replace our governor, with a patriotic one, that cares about our beautiful state
@@jerrywilliamson9635 When will people realize that they don't get to replace club members. Elections are for the distracted for mock voting but sheeple refuse to believe they don't get a say in it. Drop the egos and realize they don't care about us. They only care about their own. Why care about Cali if so rich you can jet to the most beautiful spots on the planet whenever you want. I'm going to guess that the care towards Cali is to empty it then "bbb" as a playground only the rich can afford to play
We fucking tired okay you think it wasn't FIXED bullshit take a good look at what they have done to California FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
@@jerrywilliamson9635 yes
@@jerrywilliamson9635 trump should move there and run for governor. Or just lie about it. He's so good at that, lying that is.☺
I lived in North Hollywood, CA for some years and moved back east a couple years ago. It really has become a post apocalyptic nightmare! You mention this to the locals and they think every city has the same issue. As an OTR truck driver that hits every city in the contiguous 48 many times over, each year, for the last 26 years, I can assure you that this is peculiar to western coastal cities. I was born and raised in Detroit and all California, Oregon and Washington costal cities make late 80's Detroit look like paradise.
Im from NoHo and how it was before , it’s lowkey worser u see many homeless now :/
Funny part is these liberal democrats in California don't see any thing wrong . They know it is true about the homeless people and the drug addicts everywhere, but they don't care.
They keep voting for the same liberal democrats over and over again.
That is insane !
@@JessicaRodriguez-fp7iv I was on Lankershim, just north of Sherman Way. It was getting real bad up that way.
There's a large tent city under the I-35 overpass on northern edge of Austin - the Silicon valley of Texas. The same Blue-run dynamic as California. Homicides doubled and set a new record in Austin this year fter the police were defunded, while homicides in conservative Dallas actually declined. I'm a lifelong Democrat, but we have to face the facts that a lot of new progressive policies are abject failures.
Austin is run by democrats, no wonder is has homeless encaampments.
Here in Utah, I have had so many new coworkers and friends move here from California. It’s crazy how bad they say things have gotten in CA. But we are also having a rising homeless problem here in downtown Salt Lake. Sad to see where things are going. All the Californians moving has also skyrocketed housing prices here in Salt Lake and has made it incredibly difficult to buy a property.
They are like locusts
I live downtown LA. I take the red line to work. The things I see every single day, nothing shocks me anymore; However, so much to do!! Moved here from Solvang CA.
I'll give another perspective. I am conservative and born and raised in Texas. Went to CA a few years ago, made way more money than I ever had, lived in San Mateo in the bay area. Never saw any homeless and never had an issue with crime. Now going back to Houston to visit is dangerous and just nasty. Its easy to sit back and watch these videos and hate CA. There are many beautiful places in CA that are under control. Dont totally knock it until you try it. Wanna move to Texas? Good luck in the summer.
Take a bow sir....thank u
I live in Ojai CA. I have relatives all over Texas..I’ll stay here
@@JOMaMa.. Beautiful area that is.
There are a lot of nice looking houses in the peninsula. The residents want to appear liberal and vote for these policies. But when it comes to housing for example, they don’t want low income housing near their neighborhood for fear of affecting their home value.
It’s okay to say you want to make money, just don’t call yourself a liberal.
The “nice” areas in California aren’t so great either. With the recent car break ins, in the Bay Area, or Asian hate crimes, what’s newsom doing? Promoting his children’s book.
@@MrDarthvis Yea Newsom is a freak, but you can still live nice in California.
We left June 2021 for Missouri. Love it here! Didn’t realize how low our quality of life was until we left honestly.
Welcome to the most backwards State in the union.
Can I ask where you lived in California?
Where in MO?
hope you make it to 1 million followers. You deserve it 🎉
Hey! I'm sleeping on a couch in a crummy area in the Tenderloin district. It's bad. As bad as it gets.
Nick, u should touch on how the Bay Area residents fleeing the Bay Area are flooding Sacramento and the valley for cost of living and slower pace of life. Its causing many natives to be homeless or have to leave the state because they can't compete with Bay Area money. Gentrification has forced alot of generational families from the Central Valley to other less desirable areas. Sacramento has been decimated by area refugees and we now have one of the most expensive Housing markets in the Country despite being a small government town. All these techies are paying cash for homes in Sacramento and working from home. We can't compete on central valley salaries.
All those new house they building all in the central valley im talking about modesto to tracy all the way to sac.. its cause all this bay are people are the ones buying them houses!!! I know for a fact the most of the people from the central valley cant really afford a 500k house! Its sad but its the reality
I know people who have done that in sacramento
Yes. It's sad to see even places like Auburn getting overrun.
It's true.
I'm from Sacramento and am moving to Texas because I literally couldn't complete with the rental price the bay area people can afford. N we v all got bought out
I retired in Japan as an ex-pat and love it. Great health care, super transportation systems...you do not need a car, fabulous food, and excellent traveling monthly around the country for a week or more at a time.
Good-by America.
How's the tacos over there
@@NickJohnson Japanese food ain’t even good. maybe just the ramen but not all of their food.
Where do u get freemedical (and food) in Calif exactly? 🤔🤔
@@ABa-ve3ul I will ask my Aunt about it,I saw her processing someone’s medical and ebt
@@trusttheprocess2833 ok thank you so much 🙏 please let me know
I left in June for Arizona and I’ve never been happier.
Wow. It really saddens me to see such immense social decline and collapse in such a powerful and rich state. Things are clearly out of balance and whoever is making the important decisions must be living on another planet!
Second generation Californian and I left in 2019! So much happier now. It was for my young son, there was no medical freedom for parents & school, along with all the issues mentioned in this video.
Medical freedom? Would you elaborate? Glad to hear your family is in a better place now!
@@reneecarver7041 well in order for kids to go to school they must be totally vaccinated. There are no more exemptions to that in CA. I moved to a state that honors exemption and parental rights. CA is still good on homeschooling..for now. I also wanted a safer environment for my son to grow up.
I stayed because I can afford it, unlike you. I have no kids. Those things are money pits. Enjoy your money pit. Now excuse me, I have lots of money to count lol.
@@jaygannon3560 I feel sorry for you & you epitomize what I am happy I left.
@@jaygannon3560 I feel pity for ya, got 6 awesome kids and I live in California…
I honestly cry for California, it was my homestate, now it's living Hell 😔
Me too!
Me tres!
I moved to Idaho. It's an irreversibly sad state of affairs in the once Golden State.
You can always say my tent is bigger than your tent and I even have a tent to park my two shopping carts
Nick Johnson is actually David from schitts creek?! Wow !!!
As a native and soon to be former Bay Area resident, this perfectly sums up what’s happening in this once great state. Along with myself, everyone I know who hasn’t already left is well on their way out. Shame too because if CA was affordable and not run like crap, there’s no place I’d rather be
Where you going to?
@@jeffreyzimler7978 Idaho
Politicians ain't crap, thiefs.
@@michaelbenjamin411 Don't act like a braindead californian when you get there.
The California dream is finding space on the sidewalk to pitch a tent!
Couple companies moved to NY?? Taxes there are also quite high! Makes no sense either as folks are flocking from that state as well.
Nice Video, I'm 59 and been here my whole life but I'm heading out BEFORE I retire. One note, you are wrong about Aerospace and Defense. It is still hot and heavy in the Antelope Valley. In fact, Northrop Grumman is looking to hire thousands of people just in Palmdale alone!
I live in East TN and we are seeing Californians moving here in DROVES… people are buying houses sight unseen and OVER asking….Locals are very sick of it!
My parents live there. Oh please, the locals who sold their house for a mint LOVE it.
@@dg2517 yeah of course, but there are plenty of locals who love it here and want to stay but are being priced out of the area
@@jacquieslusher4748 I was just talking to a friend about how many CA license plates I’m seeing around our town…. We also get a lot of IL transplants.
I’m sorry to hear your towns are being bombarded too… it’s heartbreaking but I guess you can’t blame people for wanting out of these cesspools..
Goodbye Tennessee ,Californians bring their politics raise housing prices ruin everything.
they’re all over the country and it’s pissing me off.
Man California is nothing like what I grew up in .teachers are so politically involved it's ridiculous
Not to mention mean teachers.
Yeah it's gotten pretty bad.. majority of Californian's don't wanna be here.
Hello Nick, Enjoy your videos. Just want to make a comment on this video. You show a clip at a Dollar Store regarding theft. The clip you showed is a Dollar in Canada. I can tell buy one of the thieves using a Buy Low grocery bag which is a Canadian Grocery Chanin and also there are Canadian Flags for sale. Also this is a Dollarama Store which is a Canadian Chain of Dollar stores. Keep up the good work. Thanks
There’s a gas station on Webster St in Alameda, CA. Alameda is an island city next to Oakland and along Webster St the homeless started to creep in and set up tents. One night a homeless guy walked into this gas station and barged behind the counter and started stealing cigarettes. The clerk pulled out a gun and shot the homeless guy in the head. At first, he told the police he felt threatened and that the guy was being hostile. But the police reviewed the video and decided to charge the clerk with murder.
Another case in Oakland. A couple of guys were breaking into cars around 23rd Avenue - kind of a rough neighborhood. This guy saw them breaking into his car and I think he got into a physical altercation with them and he shot at their getaway car killing one of them. He was charged with murder.
Another recent case in Antioch 30 miles from Oakland. Antioch is a rough city. 2 guys robbed a gas station. The gas station chased them off with a gun and there was shootout. The attendant was killed. When they caught the thieves, the liberal DA of Contra Costa County said the thieves would not be charged with murder because the clerk shot first.
A liberal judge in SoCal let a 3 striker out on bail after dropping a bunch of his charges that would have put in prison for life. The guy ended up killing a deputy sheriff.
In California, the criminals have the upper hand. Our laws are based on common law, and in no circumstance under common law would deference be given to criminals over crime victims. This is where liberal policies on crime and justice have it wrong.
I fear this is what Texas, Tennessee, and Idaho will be like in the near-ish future.
Hope not.
If all these illegal immigrant loving California liberals keep coming, it just mightz
Born and raised in California Central Valley farmland. Growing up used to be able to look at your neighbor's having a good-paying job being a framer a welder and getting paid $20 an hour back in 1980 now every construction site or any shoppie go to is 90% illegals and some of the food producing plants or all illegal and even the managers. Painters framers welders they are about $15 an hour in 2021. Move to Indiana before years and it changed or changing just like California
this is the future of america. People think this is just state by state. They are wrong
Your wrong
The problem with California is the apathy and crudeness of the people. They have no decency or kindness in them. Great episode!
Are there that type of people everywhere?
This is true... Creepy people in Monterey... Scary, actually.
What makes them creepy? I think I know but need some examples.
Especially all the illegals living fat off the government when they should be DEPORTED
@@dannysunay4386 I don’t see that in my area because I live in Orange County which hasn’t been severely effected by the homeless problem…
I was born in southern California and the place has just changed so much. I love my home but it feels the place was destroyed. I use to grow up next to cows and those cows were replaced by people in apartments.
You.make me laugh. But so true. Seattle is nuts as well
I just spoke with the police here in Pittsburg California. Something needs to be done about this homeless problem. Thanks to gruesome newsom our state has become a garbage dump.
The same thing is happening in Portland, Oregon. It used to be such a beautiful place. Now it’s a garbage dump with a dying downtown area. It’s like someone is rolling out a standard program to degrade the area and demoralize the citizens. I moved there in 1991 and it was such a beautiful and hopeful place. I moved rural 10 years ago and I’m so glad that I did.
Not to mention nasty Pelosi. I’m a first generation Southern Californian. I escaped in 2008. When I go back home to visit my family, I just can’t wait to get back here I feel so uncomfortable there
I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. CAME FROM SAN BERNARDINO CA YOU SEE IT ALL IN THIS CITY. TENTS ON THE SIDEWALKS VERY SAD SITUATION 😥😥
Born and raised in Los Angeles, left this past year. Even after making a solid salary and having no debt, I just didn't think a 1 bedroom rent of $1700 made any sense. Now I live in arizona, and for the same apartment I am paying 1k and even have a higher paying job. Will always love California, it's just sad how it's pushed out lots of it's residents
Agreed Frank!
1700 isnt even that much. i thought most apartments are over 2K now, even crummy ones. rent is a waste of money.
1700 is cheap. I was looking for one bedroom apartments last weekend in Koreatown and Mid City and they were going for 2500. Prices have gone up drastically in the past year!
@@baldeagle4710 it doesnt help that houses are being torn down and "luxury apartments" are being built. Its absurd
If you want a cheap apt go to San Pedro or Long Beach
My family left in 1999 saw the writing on the wall back then.
" Carl's Jr f*** you we're leaving" 😆
The California Dream isn’t dead. It just moved to Florida.
It moved to Colorado also, by the millions. California 2.0 i call it now.
I grew up in Riverside in rhe 80s and 90s. Left in 2000 to join the Army. The state I grew up with is long dead. I was proud to be from CA and now it is both sad and disgusting to see what my home state has become. Almost all my friends and family have left CA. Regardless of how you feel politically, you can not deny that liberal policies put in place by state Democrats are ruining that state. The utopia the left desires will never happen in America. This is the result of choking out business's with over regulation, increased tax rates and massive barriers for small business.
Yep
I still think Riverside is one of the best cities in the world
That’s sad because it’s a beautiful state and it’s been destroyed.
@@Anita_Backrub Not that beautiful. Ugly mountains, pathetic abandoned strip malls, miles and miles of nondescript desert. Wyoming is beautiful. California makes me want to puke.
Cali needs some Republican leadership
I was in orange county -Los Angeles at june , 3(three) months before WTC building in New York ruin. Every morning i turn arround the city for breakfast, lunch and dinner, that tine the city very nice, only few unlucky people sleep on the street.
Very longtime not visiting LA , if u have vidoe about Orange county? I missed the friendly people there
I live in a small quiet neighborhood in OKC, sadly when someone dies a very strange person moves here from California.
"They don't want to California your state because they don't want California at all anymore." Well, they're the ones that made California what it is with their political beliefs and ideology.
As a Conservative from CA, I can say that those that are leaving are not bringing leftist views wirh them. All my family and friends have left and they are on the right.
@@tywins3669 tell that to denver
As an Irish person I grew up dreaming about America but sadly its gone downhill fast in such a short few yrs. We have poverty in Ireland but about 98 per cent of people are in the middle - whereas America looks like there is a wide gap between rich and poor
Don't come here.
It's better there.
Trust me.
So true!
I’m a Murphy in America, if you are wealthy it’s ok. The rest of us are deep in debt, prices on everything have skyrocketed, Mexico has become a true narco state like living next to Somalia, homeless out of control, drug addiction rampant, murder is king and racial tensions at all time high. Do yourself a favor, stay home. There’s nothing here but heartache
@@maxmurphy47 sad to hear that, every country has it's problems just looks like America's are getting worse.
No doubt about it. You would think that all these TH-cam videos are over-dramatizing this. They are not. I was in the alarm/CCTV industry up until recently. A great majority of my customers were from Cali. And they all were fleeing that state as quick as they could with no intention of going back. Putting Cali aside, most of the really big cities all across the country are in free fall as well due to gross mismanagement and corruption. Look it up. It’s bad I hate to say
Grew up in Marin County, it was a real fun place to grow up and it was clean, we all enjoyed nature and the beauties of the land and ocean. Now, in my sixties, I am in Oregon, yet I thought I wanted to return there, but now it frightens me, and I am upset how the homeless has taken over so much making it so gross and unhealthy. I wouldn't feel safe there at all, but I am hurt to see what has happened to the state that I grew up in and both my parents families and grandparents helped to create so to speak. But now, my grandfather would roll over in his grave to see how ugly it has become. They had the good life then, but now, it is just the opposite. What a time.
California has become a ‘nightmare.’ Used to live on ‘Mission Beach’ San Diego. Used to walk on the sandy beach in my bear feet. Sometimes Slept on the beach wall near the sand sometimes in the evening. The US government wasn’t corrupt at the time. Politicians used to have pride and respect for its citizens. Until people in the US understand that the government is not working in their favor and doesn’t care, until then things will never change nor get better.
Wow, you're a bear? That's "bear-ly" possible.
Haha you can't sleep on the beach now - no way Jose
@@johngarbarini1048 He must've gone to "publik sqool" in his "bear feet"
The US government has always been corrupt. For about 4 centuries. You people are learning this now because it's affecting you negatively, finally.
Thank you for putting this out there born and raised in California and struggling to leave because of how expensive it is just to live here
Amazing transition at 6:42
Great content like this deserves better microphones.
Big tall (6' to 12 feet) cement & steel fences are going up everywhere. Especially around private homes.Just like in El Salvador and Columbia. People are also using high tech security and firearms. California is turning into South America.
I showed a Los Angeles house where the listing Realtor was very proud of the six foot + wooden fence made from discarded pallets! It looked like a fence made of discarded pallets!
@@juanmontoya6622 Bingo again! The Favelas still in Brazil and not getting any better, only bigger. Grows like a disease rash.
One of my best friends lives in cali. I like going on vacation to visit him. It really is worst best place to live. It’s got amazing land and camping but everything is way too expensive and the homeless people make even the nice places feel uncomfortable or worse confrontational and you can’t carry a gun so don’t expect to feel safe when that crazy homeless man starts coming at you.
I left Northern San Diego County and California for good in 2004 and moved to Hawaii, because even back then, I kind of got a sense of what was to come. Whenever I feel a little bit nostalgic for my birth state and think about going back, I'm going to watch a few minutes of this video!
Hawaii is even worth than north county in Honolulu good luck
Totally agree with one guy saying if your rich it's ok if your poor you get help but for the middle class there's nothing. It's just like this in the UK. Seriously! In every city it's the same old story. Middle class pay for the poor to do their drinking, drug taking etc while the middle class themselves live on the breadline and get no help whatsoever. So wrong!
To be honest CA has the money to fix all of this. It’s so weird for me outside of the US to hear that someone thinks such a rich state is “gone”… obviously changes are needed to do so
Too many greedy people in California who care about themselves
Fix? The state government kept raising taxes, but no improvements. It is more about the left policies that are killing California.
It's called GREED my friend.
Bc newsom taking most of the money and putting in his pocket instead of helping the people.
@@jbently5303 is this tax revenue California? Also 700bilion doesn't seem much consider the revenue is 4trilion. What happen to the rest of the money??
It’s such a rat race. Discouraging the recall didn’t work, and the tactics people fell for. If you don’t stand for some you fall for everything. We did. I’ve lived here my whole life, but now I see why my dad left for Idaho in the 80’s. Also funny story, a shop owner recently made everything in the store $951.00 and has a coupon behind the counter to mark it down to regular price. Anyway I hope we can change our state I think what happened is “the road to hell was paved with good intentions” leftist altruism made this place a shite hole, allocation of funds from safety( police) to things that don’t help. Ill agree with the immigration issue my moms side immigrated from Mexico legally so to have people who didn’t go through the years of waiting benefit kinda sucks. My granny from Mexico was a staunch conservative. Also my dad and his fam came from Canada, he left the state due to illegals bidding him out of painting jobs. It also affects the illegals because they work for less under bad conditions and bad pay. Maybe being a first generation American I see things a bit different but I truly hope we can change this, the pendulum has completely swung from one end to another it’s become a total dystopian environment here.
Genius with the 951 price!
And the liberals believed it was a Republican recall! So delusional.
These liberals support low income housing but not in their neighborhood to keep their house price high. It’s okay to say you want to make money, just don’t call yourself a liberal.
We’re trying to help every Californian.
Yeah, too bad we couldn't have a know-it-all conservative talk show host running the state.
The recall can’t work because most Californians don’t see a problem there. They like it like that.
@@timlove1 😭😢 true true
Yo in the beginning at 1:20 that was San Bernardino wasn't it. I lived in that area for a while lol. Do u have a video for that area?
I just left bay area for Omaha Nebraska july 2023😢😢😢😢i loved the bay but could no longer afford it