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High cost of living, constant fires, high taxes without good government services, homelessness everywhere, highly politicized COVID policies like lockdowns, lopsided political landscape with democrats controlling the entire state with no competition from another party to drive change.

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It's frustrating because the GOP could compete in CA if they put any effort into it. Instead they push nationalized issues and loonies

Their problem is that they have to kowtow to the crazy religious element, which makes them as a party completely unpalatable to the modern, secular west coast human.

Wow you just listed every reason of why I dislike living in Texas.

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