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This comment will be unpopular.

But, I and most people I've talked to have been waiting years for this prediction to materialize. We'd all love it here if we could enjoy all that California has to offer with fewer transplants around.

And I'll add, if you've extracted your wealth off the back of California and it's people, it's only fair you pay back some of that to the state if you do decide to just take the money and run.

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>We'd all love it here if we could enjoy all that California has to offer with fewer transplants around.

This sentiment has been around for decades. My family moved to Southern California from Illinois in the 1970s and there were bumper stickers that said, "Welcome to California, now go back home."

I'm going to bet that sentiment has been around for a lot longer than that, likely even before the gold rush and dust bowl migrations.

I think what is new are these tireless and never ending threats of leaving. It's like, ok, go already - sheesh.

There is a story that Elisha Stephens, for whom Stevens Creek is named, awoke one morning in the early 1860s in the Cupertino area, spotted the smoke of someone else's cooking fire somewhere in the distance, and decided that the area was getting too crowded for his taste.

> if you've extracted your wealth off the back of California and it's people

So merely having wealth implies that you immorally "extracted it on the backs" of others?

Are you writing this from your 10th grade recess period?

You're implying that resources afforded to people have no bearing on their ability to build wealth. That's nonsensical.

> Are you writing this from your 10th grade recess period?

These types of comments don't belong here.

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