<story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manigandham</author><text>The state has gone downhill on every metric possible. People can&amp;#x27;t name even 5 things that have improved over the past decade. Taxes, infrastructure, homeless, rent&amp;#x2F;housing, cost of living, gas, traffic, smog and pollution, crime, illegal immigration, gangs, fires, droughts, private property issues, local govt gridlock and deficiency, and now the weather isn&amp;#x27;t great either.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately many of those leaving don&amp;#x27;t realize the policies they voted for are the main cause of this mess and might repeat the same thing in the new areas.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddoolin</author><text>Crime in almost every category has gone down over the last decade. You have to be crazy to think gang activity has gotten worse over the same time period. Immigration is not the domain of the state. I&amp;#x27;d argue that given the number of people here, the traffic could be a lot worse. I&amp;#x27;ve personally seen worse gridlock on worse infrastructure in other states with less people. Even if you account for the days that fires affect a significant amount of people&amp;#x27;s weather experience, we still have great weather for the vast majority of the year.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not perfect by any means but you could easily draw up a similar list for any state. A state is a big area and it&amp;#x27;s probably more useful to talk about most of these kinds of things at a local level.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manigandham</author><text>The state has gone downhill on every metric possible. People can&amp;#x27;t name even 5 things that have improved over the past decade. Taxes, infrastructure, homeless, rent&amp;#x2F;housing, cost of living, gas, traffic, smog and pollution, crime, illegal immigration, gangs, fires, droughts, private property issues, local govt gridlock and deficiency, and now the weather isn&amp;#x27;t great either.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately many of those leaving don&amp;#x27;t realize the policies they voted for are the main cause of this mess and might repeat the same thing in the new areas.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tabtab</author><text>&amp;gt; The state has gone downhill on every metric possible.&lt;p&gt;Mostly because it got more crowded.  As a CA resident, if you don&amp;#x27;t like CA, please DO move out. It will help traffic, for one.&lt;p&gt;If ALL you care about is a big house and taxes, then CA is probably not for you. As soon as you walk outside your TX McMansion, you may realize why CA is so crowded.</text></comment>