"Nothing works in California; it is “failed state” tier. It is also a preview of the national dystopia to come if California isn’t sawed off and left to drift off to sea in a Calexit. It is either that, give it back to Mexico, or a war of extermination -nothing less will save us from the nightmarish California Dream. The Bay Area has nice weather, and some interesting people live there out of what I assume is inertia and provincialism, but there is no worse place to live in North America today. It’s a physical paradise made into dystopian hellscape by the people who live in it."

This is completely unhinged (and bigoted) fantasy. I have lived in multiple places around the US and liked many of them. California works pretty well, actually. It is not remotely like the USSR circa 1985.

It does overtax and underdeliver. But the federal government does that on a much grander scale.

The Bay Area and LA are overcrowded. There are other places to live in California! Some with much more natural beauty.

Well he posts on HN so I am sure he can respond to criticism personally

> Also, seekers of alternate Bay Areas: fuck off, we’re full: the last thing any functioning society needs is your contributions.

That's the sort of insightful, tolerant viewpoint that helps elevate discussions.

Bay Area != California

Stopped reading at "urban hellscape like NYC"