03-06-2021, 06:50 PM
Miss Guohua it didn't use to be. But certainly now it is. When I was young in the 60's there was alot to do as a kid, mostly the freedom brought from bicycles and skateboards. The roads were never bumper to bumper and an average new three bedroom cost around $14K. There were not any gangs or drugs, and the seldom murders made front page and was unusual, very unusual. Then the hippy movement came and LSD and pot became rapidly popular. Rock and Roll changed and the mindset was about Love. People behaved as they should, and yes you still had bullies and social problems born of race. The Mexican population had noticed the generosity of the northerners and began to flood the state.
Hollywood created stereotypes of non-Californians as bumbling hillbillies or simpletons. A lot of those people, fed up with their cold climates in the east and north migrated there to escape the cold. As you had that migration come in a second round, a lot of mal-contents decided Cali was Mecca. They brought their BS with them sadly. In the early days like the 40's and 50's and even earlier, it was mostly white with a growing Mexican population.
Money came to California and the money rush was on. The sad part was that developers found it ripe to plunder the state. Cities rose, roads were built, and pristine tracts of land destroyed with the blight of cookie-cutter tract homes. By the thousands, sometimes four or five tracts going at a time under construction until all the land was gone, and already developed. Beautiful Vistas lost forever. Earthmovers, graders and bulldozers destroying everything in their path for the sake of developers and the almighty $. Once you had so many homes, you had blight enter. Ethnic strongholds rose and color between whites and browns became an issue. Population increased dramatically and a lot of aerospace and aircraft facilities were born. Kaiser and other major companies were unregulated and spewed all manner of toxins. The Mexican population brought tuberculosis with them. And that was when California's government became the nanny. Law after law was implemented. Regulation after regulation. The government realized what an untapped bounty that the state had at their disposal.
And yea, as laws came and people poured in, it started it's downhill decline. Taxes would change, and instead of owning a home...... it would own you. Banking would flourish, as would gas stations. One on every corner, unregulated. Unions tried to make an entry and develop a stronghold there, Democrats were the popular mindset. AND Cuba brought it all to a halt for 13 days. We recovered back to business as usual. The rich were in it for the money and were generally unfriendly arrogant and uncaring. And the lure of fast money attracted even more of the type. But us normal native Californians still knew the cool places to get away and have fun until the rich developers found that they could buy for next to nothing and charge entry somehow. Fun was not free anymore unless you escaped into the Sierras or Mojave desert. And they would also succumb to pay to play. The $ money changed people, and Hollywood sold them a vision of plenty and happy people all the while devolving into a debaucherous cesspool of sex and violence, instant wealth and pleasures all could be had there. Chanel 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 could show you all the stuff you Really Needed .... then UHF came out and even more stuff for sale and half-baked loonies on TV looking to relieve you of your wealth and morals. California had a price, and it was your morals and soul.
And they were still left, the Native Californians once kind hearted and compassionate. The warmth and compassion was replaced with suspicion and contempt.... But not by everybody, but it was coming like a tidal wave and would wash over all the good and bad.
I lived there until 2006 and left for good. I was there 54 years..... born there a couple generations old already native to the place. SO YEA, there is scarcely any defense for denying it's path to destruction. The southern half of the state has become an empire of Blight, there's no denying that. The north I feel sorry for, above Sacramento. It is in the last heaves of destruction. One day it will look like Mexico city, indistinguishable. There is still good there, but it is WELL hidden. Calamity is about upon them any time now. The Lord has abandon them to their pleasures and evil thoughts. SO YEA, then you have every manner of perversions, eagerly awaiting the participant. By then you have entirely Sold Your Soul... yes sold out.
Hollywood created stereotypes of non-Californians as bumbling hillbillies or simpletons. A lot of those people, fed up with their cold climates in the east and north migrated there to escape the cold. As you had that migration come in a second round, a lot of mal-contents decided Cali was Mecca. They brought their BS with them sadly. In the early days like the 40's and 50's and even earlier, it was mostly white with a growing Mexican population.
Money came to California and the money rush was on. The sad part was that developers found it ripe to plunder the state. Cities rose, roads were built, and pristine tracts of land destroyed with the blight of cookie-cutter tract homes. By the thousands, sometimes four or five tracts going at a time under construction until all the land was gone, and already developed. Beautiful Vistas lost forever. Earthmovers, graders and bulldozers destroying everything in their path for the sake of developers and the almighty $. Once you had so many homes, you had blight enter. Ethnic strongholds rose and color between whites and browns became an issue. Population increased dramatically and a lot of aerospace and aircraft facilities were born. Kaiser and other major companies were unregulated and spewed all manner of toxins. The Mexican population brought tuberculosis with them. And that was when California's government became the nanny. Law after law was implemented. Regulation after regulation. The government realized what an untapped bounty that the state had at their disposal.
And yea, as laws came and people poured in, it started it's downhill decline. Taxes would change, and instead of owning a home...... it would own you. Banking would flourish, as would gas stations. One on every corner, unregulated. Unions tried to make an entry and develop a stronghold there, Democrats were the popular mindset. AND Cuba brought it all to a halt for 13 days. We recovered back to business as usual. The rich were in it for the money and were generally unfriendly arrogant and uncaring. And the lure of fast money attracted even more of the type. But us normal native Californians still knew the cool places to get away and have fun until the rich developers found that they could buy for next to nothing and charge entry somehow. Fun was not free anymore unless you escaped into the Sierras or Mojave desert. And they would also succumb to pay to play. The $ money changed people, and Hollywood sold them a vision of plenty and happy people all the while devolving into a debaucherous cesspool of sex and violence, instant wealth and pleasures all could be had there. Chanel 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 could show you all the stuff you Really Needed .... then UHF came out and even more stuff for sale and half-baked loonies on TV looking to relieve you of your wealth and morals. California had a price, and it was your morals and soul.
And they were still left, the Native Californians once kind hearted and compassionate. The warmth and compassion was replaced with suspicion and contempt.... But not by everybody, but it was coming like a tidal wave and would wash over all the good and bad.
I lived there until 2006 and left for good. I was there 54 years..... born there a couple generations old already native to the place. SO YEA, there is scarcely any defense for denying it's path to destruction. The southern half of the state has become an empire of Blight, there's no denying that. The north I feel sorry for, above Sacramento. It is in the last heaves of destruction. One day it will look like Mexico city, indistinguishable. There is still good there, but it is WELL hidden. Calamity is about upon them any time now. The Lord has abandon them to their pleasures and evil thoughts. SO YEA, then you have every manner of perversions, eagerly awaiting the participant. By then you have entirely Sold Your Soul... yes sold out.