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Burn Baby Burn, Disco Inferno
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Huh, the state of South Carolina as a whole has about the same murder rate as the city of Oakland, CA. I wasn't expecting it to be that high.
Anyway, while this is a sick burn, I think that one could argue that the very real advantages that California has are not caused by the way that it's governed and in fact I have heard California residents claim that those advantages exist despite the way that California is governed, but I don't know how representative those California residents are. I can see how a person could reasonably prefer not to have her state governed the way that California is without being ignorant, but that sort of discussion won't be happening on Twitter.
(I personally love the way that New Hampshire is governed, and that's a state very unlike California. I hope to live there again someday, but I acknowledge that it's not for everyone.)
Can you briefly explain the difference between how California is governed vs New Hampshire?
I’m not a newsom fan for sure. But every time I’ve been to New Hampshire, I’m disappointed in a few things. Transportation is bad. Many businesses shut down and empty.
I liked the low taxes/few government services way of doing things in New Hampshire, as well as the emphasis that voters and politicians placed on the importance of being left alone. Taxes are way higher in California, and while I get that keeping big cities running is expensive, does it have to be that expensive? I suspect that it doesn't, especially since even with all that tax money the Bay Area (the part of California that I'm familiar with) is not very pleasant compared to some big cities in other states, including states with lower taxes. It's true that the Bay Area, rather than those other cities, is the biggest tech hub in the country, but I suspect that that's the case despite of rather than because of the taxes and what they do and don't pay for.
(I'm not 100% confident in my claims about the Bay Area. I've spent a lot of time there but I haven't ever lived there full-time.)