"few things"??

I take you either have never in California, or have not been back for a couple decades? About the only thing "nice" about CA anymore is the good weather, surf and great National Parks --and that's wearing mighty thin these days.

Typical life as a proletarian in So Cal:

--Get up 2 hours early to make your "heroic" commute in perma-gridlock from Riverside/San Bernardino/Palmcaster or other "affordable" desert hellhole to your not-very-heroic downtown job for a less-than-heroic wage.

--Get to pay among the highest state & local taxes in the country to pay for all the "free" taxpayer hand-outs (Section-8 housing, free Medi-Cal, AFDC, food stamps & free bus passes) to the illegals replacing you, robbing you, and undercutting your wages. And lets not forget the prison guard unions and friends & business associates of our corrupt state legislators and city officials. Meanwhile, roads, infrastructure, schools, and overall quality of life continue to deteriorate.

--Get to see the price of housing triple in 5 years, due to $0-down, negatively amortizing, stated-income, fog-a-mirror NINJA loan products, and the Fed & Con-gress that pimped them. Wages, of course, have not tripled.

--Get to wait in long lines and spend forever looking for parking at amusement parks, beaches or other popular venues on weekends and holidays. Enjoy the teeming mass of "diversity" with your fellow 38 million caged rats.

Be grateful that you either live elsewhere or are very rich (areas of "Richistan" overlap the real CA, but are not actually part of it).