I mean, being honest, the weather IS nice. Once the government is cleaned up and the homeless/crime problem taken care of to some extent, I'd imagine people will start flocking there again. For the record, I'm not talking about LA or anything like that. Inner city housing sucks in every state and the cost of housing is absurd because of basic supply/demand. But I'd imagine smaller towns and cities will become boom towns, assuming this actually goes down how we think it will. Same thing with Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. All beautiful states, but corrupt governments.
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California is insanely huge. People don't realize it's actually half as densely populated as Florida. There is HUGE tracts of land, just an hour outside of every single major coastal city and most of it is dirt cheap because a lot of them don't have paved roads and aren't near any major freeway. In fact, the city of Los Angeles could double or quadruple in size simply by expanding into California City or into Riverside county which has an enormous amount of desert land. The other problem is, the infrastructure is dated, they refuse to build more freeways, and expand the existing ones, despite having the power to do so via Imminent Domain. Of course, doing this would cause lawsuits from just about every Democrat lawyer, and nothing will get done DESPITE Imminent Domain CLEARLY being a constitutional power of the government! This was what killed the train to nowhere. California spent something like $100 billion on literally nothing. NOTHING!!!!! The train was supposed to be a bullet train, capable of 100MPH speeds that connected all of the major coastal cities. What do we have today? Nothing. Just the existing train system that is slow as hell using 100 year old tracks. It's a joke. Liberals want to build all these nice things, but then have to answer to their constituents who think imminent domain is a human rights violations or is racist somehow on the people it effects. This is why nothing ever gets accomplished despite all of their promises, and blaming Republics... or my favorite, blaming car companies because GM lobbied in the 60s against public transportation. I'm sorry, but GM, Toyota, Ford ARE NOT DOING ANY LOBBYING! And if they are, it's not nearly as convincing as it was back then. It's these lawyers crippling progress and corrupt politicians that refuse to do anything without making a profit.
Imagine the Interstate 10 being expanded to 6 lanes instead of 1 or 2. Imagine the 1 doubling in size. We have the ability to do this. Yes, people will get displaced, yes, houses and property will get sold and relocated, but that's what's called progress. It's been done before, it can be done again and again to secure a better future. How do you think central park was built? How was the original freeway built in the first place? Getting paid more than fair market value is generous, especially for the opportunity to.. you know, not live next to a loud freeway all the time. Christ, I think I remember even learning this in Elementary school, that it was a possibility the government may relocate you in order to build a road, bridge or train track over your home. Leftists don't seem to understand this very very basic concept, which is surprising because it's fairly authoritarian and fits their agenda quite well. Instead, they are openly traitorous to their own nation, and are doing more damage than any foreign enemy could.