Come to California If You Want to Live
The Golden State’s Focus on Education, Health Care, and Gun Control Creates a Gold Standard for Longevity
Come to California if you want to live.
That’s my New Year’s suggestion for a new state slogan. California is losing population for the first time since it became a state. The cause of the problem is not people leaving—in fact, our levels of departures, as percentage of population, are among the very lowest in the nation. Rather, the problem is that so few people are moving here.
The biggest reason for that is well known: The cost of living in the Golden State is among America’s highest. But less well known …
