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If she's angry about the problems that come with newcomers, she can ask the govt or people to outlaw newcomers.

Otherwise ... No one occupies the high moral ground. Every newcomer, no matter how far back, changed forever what was there.

Edit: when I lived in San Diego in the seventies, it was all but impossible to get a permit for a new water hookup, effectively banning new homes and therefore new people. Your wife could start with that.

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It’s not newcomers. (The native Americans weren’t too thrilled when here ancestors came into town, I’ll tell you what.) It’s Californians specifically.

OK, different bias.

And the native Americans changed the land when they arrived.

People say this as if Californian is an ethnicity. Please.

The popular perception is that the people leaving California bring their politics with them and vote for the same things they did in California, therefore making their new state just as miserable as the parts of California they fled.

There was a big influx of Californians to Seattle early 90s from aerospace tectonic shifts and normal moving around. The worry was rising property prices mainly, because they brought lots of cash from selling their expensive California homes.

And they were always leaving off the last syllables of words. But mainly property prices.

My experience living in CA had taught me that NIMBYs are at the root of many problems there.

Ehhhh it would be hard to bring the truly destructive legislation. California's system is exceptionally dumb.

Do you mind explaining which legislation in particular you are considering destructive?

The property tax system is terrible.

> People say this as if Californian is an ethnicity.

You say that as if it is not.

Even people on the other coast are dismayed at the californians trying to change oregon, nevada, washington (too late) and even texas it seems. It is quite startling actually. As someone who has been looking into those areas for possible moving, the changes in recent years are bringing real fears that they could actually start going the way of California, which makes them much less attractive.

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