Loading ...Roger that many good observations. I myself would NOT live in Ca. for a free $600k house. Fires, earth quakes, too dense population in spots, too dry, too hilly etc etc. and quacks running the state. Fla either. Way too hot and humid. I like Maine, New Hampshire, etc.
All the problems and troubles you mentioned are a product or side effect of globalization. Global welfare. Global affirmative action to equalize countries at USA expense. And anybody that purchased an imported consumer product, when they had a US choice, contributed to the decline.
United we stand, divided we fell. Innocent people, just concerned about them selves. Buying high quality cheaper. We didn’t all stick together and boycott imported people and products. We had the wrong leadership. We had THEIR leadership. It all doesn’t matter anymore. Forty years ago was the time to complain. Nature is taking its course now.