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« on: June 28, 2015, 10:26:42 PM » |
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In addition to the factors mentioned by other posters, some time in the last few decades California ran out of easy sprawl. It's still a tremendously attractive place to live with a highly dynamic and productive economy, but thanks to asinine land use policies, the property market is caught between the rock of high demand for living space and the hard place of no where to add more living space legally. The result has been America's most densely inhabited urban areas, and an outflux of people who prioritize the ownership of personal space (driven as well by the reduction in California-centered defense spending and the de-industrialization of much of the state)
If California's land use policies were not so stifling , the population of the state would still be growing at a spectacular rate as people moved in to join the high-wage economy.
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