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In reply to the discussion: California residents, businesses consider bailing on Golden State over taxes [View all]raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Living here in wine country sure is swell. Watching winery after winery drain water illegally from local streams to protect the precious crops while our water supplies dwindle ever further down and our once prosperous salmon are now almost undetectable.
Add on to it the amount of loud, annoying aholes who traverse a couple hundred miles in gas guzzlers, or even worse, fly in and spew pollution over some of most beautiful lands left in California just to taste some booze.
15-20 years ago it wasn't so bad. Today it seems like every other schmuck has to own a winery and to watch them clear cut old growth Redwood forests and poison the local flora and fauna to grow more grapes brings a heavy heart.
Please, leave. You can grow nothing finer here than a Redwood.