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Remote work means people can maximize their wages else where.

A lot of people also don't know what it's like to live / grow up in a small town. I suspect once they meet middle American culture they'll be coming right back to California.

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Lots of people only lived in big cities for employment and many of us are enjoying leaving the noise, pollution, crime, and yes, needles and feces encrusting the sidewalks behind. Sure I’ll miss the hustle and bustle of the city, my brick wall efficiency in a converted warehouse, and the fact that there are 11 Starbucks shops within a 2 block radius. But it’s worth the trade off even if I have a dramatically smaller selection of craft IPAs to choose from.

Alas, the rural place I'm from has all those problems, but is also far away from anything.

The farther you go to escape human generated problems, the farther you are from human generated resources

Also, I don't know how I'd be able to hack living in Los Angeles in my 20's in the current era. Right now I'm a mid-career engineer making mid career wages. I don't live big, but I'm looking at other countries to buy property in -- simply because I can't afford anything out here.

California needs to build a heroic amount of housing as quickly as possible.

Which will never happen, just the other day I read an article about record low housing development is happening right now in the Bay Area

No, Cali needs to realize unlimited resources first. My local reservoir is below summer level before summer is even here. Why we need to encourage more people to to turn this into a desert?

There are tons of other cities that are much cheaper than cali cities, a lot of people are moving to places like phoenix and Dallas, which have everything cali cities have except maybe nice weather and nature

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