November 2022 Election Predictions

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Originally Posted by Kaveh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

California and New York are shit holes like West Virginia

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Cope

This sentence is spoken universally by one of two people:

1. Those who have never been to or lived in these places.

2. Those who can't afford to live there.

These places are expensive as fuck because they are tremendously powerful economic engines, and because everyone wants to live there.

I grew up in suburban Northern California and it was literal paradise. I went to college in Orange County, CA, and lived in Newport Beach. Also literal paradise. By nearly every metric... life expectancy, quality of education, happiness, physical fitness, obesity, income, culture... liberal states, especially California, just trounce the rest of the country.

And that's all beside the fact that California is... or I guess, used to be, one of the most naturally beautiful and hospitable places on Earth. I grew up in an idyllic valley surrounded by mountains that kept all the storms out, warm and sunny but with a cool, gentle delta breeze every evening. I could drive an hour and a half east and be in Lake Tahoe or skiing the high Sierras, an hour and a half west and be at the ocean, 3 hours south and be in Yosemite.

Sorry you're jealous of probably the least shithole place on Earth except maybe Japan or Switzerland. Yes, it could be run a lot better, but so could the rest of the US.