I left San Jose on January 1st 1975 because it was no longer the peaceful city/county/valley that my parents moved to in 1956. I moved to just outside of Salem, OR. At the time the wave of liberal Californians were moving to Oregon. Conservative Oregonians were very upset about the Californication that was coming to Oregon. Even the Oregon Governor was very vocal about not wanting to change Oregon into another LA/SF/SJ. I took the opportunity for a promotion to move to North Carolina in 1985 and watched from afar as Oregon became the cesspool it is now with progressives (?), homeless and Hispanics. Downtown Salem has many empty stores, most of the major ones. Over half the billboards you see as you drive through Salem are in Spanish. Homeless reside, crap, and pee outside my brotherinlaw’s downtown store in downtown Salem.Yes, this is a very excellent example of what Californication can do to what was once a beautiful, serene, non-violent state.Californication is now eroding Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. Colorado is now fully Californicated.Unfortunately Californication will never stop. It is like a plague on the country.
I left San Jose on January 1st 1975 because it was no longer the peaceful city/county/valley that my parents moved to in 1956. I moved to just outside of Salem, OR. At the time the wave of liberal Californians were moving to Oregon. Conservative Oregonians were very upset about the Californication that was coming to Oregon. Even the Oregon Governor was very vocal about not wanting to change Oregon into another LA/SF/SJ. I took the opportunity for a promotion to move to North Carolina in 1985 and watched from afar as Oregon became the cesspool it is now with progressives (?), homeless and Hispanics. Downtown Salem has many empty stores, most of the major ones. Over half the billboards you see as you drive through Salem are in Spanish. Homeless reside, crap, and pee outside my brotherinlaw’s downtown store in downtown Salem.Yes, this is a very excellent example of what Californication can do to what was once a beautiful, serene, non-violent state.Californication is now eroding Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. Colorado is now fully Californicated.Unfortunately Californication will never stop. It is like a plague on the country.