I take this all seriously and get offended when people who CA has been exceeding good to feel it necessary to bash it on the way out the door. I see it over and over again when people leaving because economically its not for them blame politics. We all know what we signed up for when we came here. Yes it has changed but most places have just as much. We go through cycles and sometimes people leave. But what we have here is so unique and special that as things cycle back they return and always will. You just need a longer vision which I have. I don’t think there is any better place to build generational wealth and long term real estate holdings then where I am. I’m doing it with an eye towards my children’s grandchildren and beyond.
There is a lot of conversation about pre-purposing commercial space. If only it was easy to do so into residential but nothing is easy. There is a shopping center near me that struggled for decades with poor frontage, design and parking. It was the place businesses went to die. I always wished they would just bulldoze it and build nice condo flats for folks to downsize into. Developers tried but the city wanted it to remain shopping center. After countless attempts its finally coming to life as a high end lifestyle center with mostly restaurants and the economics of the area have risen enough to support it. Was the city right to have the vision to hold out? Dunno? I still wish they built nice size flats in a 3 story building with parking below but I dont have vote
