Reply #12: Yeah, poor people should pack up and leave CA for the rich.

[Yollam]

After all, it's the nicest state - it's only fitting that only the rich should be able to live there. Who cares if someone grew up there and has to leave their friends, family, all they know. Maybe the only job they know is there.

Of course, once all the poor have left, who is going to serve the Mahi-mahi and massage the feet of California's stylish rich and near-rich?


Seriously. WTF kind of solution is that? "Move!"?


PS - 1 BR condos START at $300K in San Francisco. I can't speak for long beach, but a 35K income doesn't buy ANYTHING. Hell, groceries are at least 20% higher than everywhere else.




What you say would maybe make sense for a person who just moved out to CA for the lifestyle, but millions of people were born and raised there.



Well, that's been the plight of the poor since the Okies in Dust Bowl Days. Why should they ever expect the luxury of settling down?


BTW, when I lived in Southern California in the early 90's, Long Beach was working class, and rents on 2 BR apt's were in the $4~500 range. What a dumb broad the lady in the story was to not take the hint and get the hell out sooner, huh?


Of course, wherever she moves to, rich investors with wallets fattened by Bush tax cuts and offshoring-enhanced portfolios will come in and buy everything up and make it expensive there, too.

Thank you, GOP for systematically turning our country into another Mexico (economically, not culturally).