Been dealing with this bs for the past few years. The purchase process only scratches the surface. California is a great place minus a few million people that make it suck. I have my eyes on Arizona or New Mexico.
Just as aside...
My family moved to Denver in the early 1970's from Central Illinois. Denver was considered a 'cow town' then, un-hip, and aside from ski bums in Aspen, no one wanted to live there.
It was 'discovered' by Californians when the CA economy first got bad in the late 1980's, and they moved in by the tens of thousands. The first thing they did was set about making Colorado just as miserable as the state they left. They got on local school boards and ran for local elections, and before you know it, it was illegal to transport a firearm in your vehicle in Denver city limits. Ever. Under any circumstances, assembled or disassembled. When I moved to Denver as a child, there were still freaky old left-over mountain men who'd come to town armed, for God's sake. When I was in high school in Golden, CO, we had rifle racks in the back windows of our pickup trucks, with actual rifles in them. Not anymore.
When I got married, my wife lived in Albuquerque and I moved there. I love Albuquerque, but starting in 2001 or so, it also started filling up with Californians. And it's the same thing all over again. The California left-wing morons show up and try to change things to make them just as miserable as the state they left.
I feel for non-lefty Californians, but for the rest of those buffoons - I can't stand 'em. The amazing part is, people who live in places like San Francisco and Berkeley think THEY are normal!!! They have no idea how out-of-touch they are with the rest of the country. At least they don't think they are superior to everyone else like the NYC liberals, but they're just as bad in their own way.
Now I live in Michigan and North Carolina. The western part of NC is filling up with fleeing New Yorkers (and yes, they're destroying the joint and they were causing runaway house inflation until the recent depression began) but so far they are staying out of Michigan - along with everyone else.
And I say GOOD! It's the last refuge outside of Idaho and Montana for decent people. Californians, stay out. New Yorkers, go home. Beat it! Shoo! Take your shar pei dogs and your idiotic meadow muffin tree huggin granola crunchin save the planet crap and GET OUT! GO HOME! You made your own state miserable, so LIVE IN IT YOURSELVES.
