Some of you may know how much I bitch about my home state, but now it might time to get the fuck out of this state.
With Gavin Newson winning the recall election and the vaccine/mask mandates getting ever closer to home, I have been seriously contemplating moving out-of-state to any non-blue state (or even out-of-country). I am the only person in my entire family and friend group to not give in to the vaccine and a part of the few who will openly not wear a mask unless forced to do so. I am also pretty sure that my current company will soon enforce the vaccine so I have been looking for remote software work on the side. So there is nothing much keeping me here in California.
But I also know that other states that are currently anti-left could change their politics due to changing demographics, shitty governors, etc. So one could argue to stay here in California, find like-minded folks, and fight as long as I can until I die standing for my beliefs. I live in a very blue part of California, so I could also look into moving into a more red part of the state to maintain my sanity.
If people here think the leftist cancer will spread to red states, then I might as well hunker down here in California and make the best of it, but if there are bastions of sanity in other states, then I should make a game plan and try my luck there while I have no major responsibilities tying me to California.
And no, I won't be voting for leftist policies that destroyed California so suggest your current state if it is based.
I'm not even American, so make of it what you will, but I don't see CA stopping until it destroys it's own economy.
The problem being, CA's economy is big enough that it might take the rest of the US with it.
That aside, I think the Newsom thing has made it quite clear that unless you're a DNC ideologue die-hard, CA simply is not your state any more. Sure, they'll take your tax money, but apart from handing the money over, your role is to shut up and do as you're told. If that's not the life for you, probably best to leave if the family thing isn't a dealbreaker.
The family thing would have been a dealbreaker if they weren't so into the Covid cult. I'm honestly fine only seeing them at most a few times a year because of this.