Sure. I wasn’t meaning to defend it and tried to leave room for that. I don’t have the expertise to speak either way.
I just thought it would be constructive to surface some of the detail behind what you reported in your original comment. People’s imaginations can run wild when you talk about California!
"California the land of sky high housing & rent, insane deadly forest fires, homelessness like no other state, landslides, earthquakes... it just doesn't sound very appealing."
This is just sample bias. California is the size of NY all the way down to Florida.
If something bad happens on the west coast it has a 60% chance of being in CA but if it happens on the east coast it could be in VA, MD, DC, FL, GA, SC, NC, WV, DE
Quite the opposite: notice how they carefully avoided saying anything quantifiable? Southern California is a huge region covering tens of thousands of square miles and over 20 million residents – how could any single person claim to be a primary source for even 1% of that?
You bring up your experience, basically call me a liar about my experiences and accuse me of not adding anything to the discussion.
Interesting. I grew up in California and what I said is a fact, as confirmed by other people. What are you bringing to the discussion exactly besides baseless accusations?
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