Inadvertently became a California resident when I went there for graduate school and got employed immediately. Honestly, during those years I loved it because I was young, single, well paid, and having fun every day. Then I got married and had kids. Turned everything upside down, had to start paying attention to social issues, politics, crime, and especially the terrible schools in California. Everyone I worked with paid for their kids to attend private schools, but that wasn't for me. My feeling was, if you can't invest your own children in your own community, then why the hell are you living there? So we left, moved up the west coast to Washington. Schools were certainly a lot better there (at least where we moved), but for the past ten years I'm seeing the same trend lines for woke stupidity that I saw in California. I can foretell Washington is on the path to ruination, mainly because of the morons in Seattle. So now we are considering where we can find a haven. Montana is off the list because it can have left-leaning tendencies. Keeping an eye on Nevada, the northern part of the state that is more wooded and less politically stupid, but fleeing Californians are gradually ruining that state, too. Our best option is probably Idaho, which is also getting the California cancer, but seems to be more resistant to woke stupidity than other states. Sadly, we're even looking at different countries because, let's face it, this isn't the same old United States we grew up in.
