BTW, I've seen your food.
I tell people I live in the desert. Now sometimes it's " the Sunny San Joaquin Valley". Seen from the air, it's a freakin huge desert, except for 180 years of irrigation. And THERE is the food I mention.
Because what looks like tiny spots of green on the desert, from 10,000 feet, is the acreage that grows 1/10th of our US food production. You would be hard pressed to name 3 things we don't grow.
They will sell about $3 billion this year, maybe more. It's the third leg of California: Hollywood - Tech - Agriculture.
Also, there are ~10 million illegals trying to get from "the big hole" called SanDiego into a cheaper state. They don't like paying thousands a month for rent.
But the machine works thusly: Pelosi and her crew let the flow continue because it drives up landlord profits to the highest possible, due to obscene competition for housing.
(Well, the highest until they get to San Francisco.) Landlords have a sweet deal.
25 years ago, a tar-paper shack on 1/16 acre, on the fringe of Frisco sold for ~$1 million. Today it's incredible. Half the people have to sell themselves just to live there. Literally. It's a big industry.
At the same time I bought a 4 bedroom house on 1/4th acre for $85k.
And that's not the real beauty of it all.
All that agriculture I spoke of is between Me and Frisco.
It's between me and the SanDiego-LA-SoCal gauntlet . . . errr
corridor.
It's between me and the Sacramento moneydrain.
It's between me and the Tech Sector.
Now, there's not much between me and the High Sierra, Yosemite, or Sequoia's giant forest (my favorite.)
A dusty trip across the Kettleman Hills and the short coast range puts me on the closest accessible spot to the sea.
Which is about the only spot of it left not completely taken over by the well-to-do: Moro Bay to Avila Beach.
So as things go in California, I find it hard to complain.
I sold that house for double 17 years ago, and bought a nicer one for that. It's tripled in value after the cost of improvements.
Strangely, property taxes didn't. Not much of a rise.
Remember the landlord max profits thing?