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California Exodus

~California Exodus~ No, I do not seek your agreement! After living in California, I find a predicament. It feels like I have a brain filled with acrid cement! If you want to live sanely and quite well, Super-Sanctuary states, like California, may be your baby’s, very death knell. Now, if you have tons of green cash, California may be your state, we are loaded with taxes, And extremely high priced gas! In San Francisco, your child can pass a grade now At twenty one per cent? ( this has changed!) All that I can mutter aloud, is holy cow,and a mind in a state of cement! We pay you to fly here, and kill an unborn child? And will even reward you, if you steal up tp six hundred dollars, folks here think, that is mild? Our state’s insane government, has grown so wild! Even our smaller cities, are filled with tents, people sleeping on park benches and rambling homeless. Only the weather is mild and has some common sense. This state is nearly broke With incredible taxes, working long hours to support the philosophy of the “woke”. Drive through Berkeley, you get a contact high from all manner of drog laden, smoke. So many great Californians have left this state, To live happily(where morality and loving the USA) is not looked upon with spite and all manner of drug filled-smoke at high rates. I first came anxiously West,in ninety-hundred and fifty- six! Eloped in a snowstorm from Chicago,it was no easy picks. It has transformed from heaven to earth here, into one state that is mentally sick! Note! This is only my opinion, a poem is not factual. These are my experiences, quite vividly actual! I have written many poems that are positive about California.

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John Read

Date: 6/17/2025 8:39:00 AM

Hi dear Pangie it's just has bad in the UK, the world has lost its way.

David Crandall

Date: 6/12/2025 7:24:00 PM

I've lived in California for 66 years, and couldn't be happier with it :-))

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/14/2025 9:30:00 AM

Yes, i can see it in your face!i loved it here for a number of years, i wrote so many poems about those years. But it is no longer the same. Its Ok we disagree, David! Pangie.

Tom Valles

Date: 6/11/2025 1:47:00 PM

Pangi, I think you will see an exodus from California shortly! This piece struck many a common string with me. Great write!

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/11/2025 6:59:00 PM

Tom, hi, how are you doing! I was going to write California Exodos Two with one word only. “DITTO”.. scary when our local governments sides with out of control anarchists. Worse, all cities have anarchists… Crawling out of the woodwork.and all countries have borders. The leftist press mostly spread lies. No country is a country club. We have rules. So do universties. Then the denizens of damage,play victims in all countries. Go where? Chicago? Thanks Tom Pangie.

Gershon Wolf

Date: 6/5/2025 8:05:00 PM

California - Land of 1,000 Disappointments... The West Gone Terribly Wrong. ~ gw

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/11/2025 7:07:00 PM

Gershon, you know I grew up im your stae, that once was sane. Chicago and other cities are so evil. And I worry for your safety. Bring that Salman city for God God throw down the garbage and man think you can run the world without God.? What a joke.. but the joke is on joke us! Pangie.

Tom Valles
Date: 6/11/2025 1:47:00 PM

I so agree Gershon!

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/8/2025 8:54:00 AM

As you see~ los Angeles is but one of mant netrpoli here, who lost their marbles. Our governor is as looney as Greta Thornburg. She remindeds me of a cheerleader, who thinks she’s the savior of not only Gaza, but the savior of the world, and she needs to turn it down 100 notches.She is a hater of Israel and Has no clue what Hamas is.Anything but victims. Pangie

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/6/2025 11:24:00 AM

G~ it was never so nuts here..you know I grew up in Chicago and it was nice a long time ago. I don’t think it’s very nice right now either nor are some cities that you know are murder capitals and sin cities..(You know which ones I mean!T.Y. Pangie

Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 6/5/2025 5:41:00 AM

That exodus often ends in my state Pangie. The problem is, some bring their politics and same mentality, rather than appreciate the reasons that caused them to leave in the first place. LOL :)

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/5/2025 12:39:00 PM

The nuts stay here, this is the freeloader state. The wones who work head for Florida. I remeber when this Exodus began years ago, i dont beriend American haters. And i am sorry you had creeps from here come there. Plus over the border, oy! We all have odd non citizens up into our faith in the dead of night AutoPen- Biden, in the dead of nght? Wrong! Pangie.

Daniel Henry Rodgers

Date: 6/4/2025 6:21:00 AM

Dearest Pangie, I hear your frustration and your longing for a place that once felt like heaven but now weighs heavy with bureaucracy, shifting values, and social upheaval. Your voice rings with the spirit of social commentary and lived experience, blending biting humor with genuine concern for community and sanity. Such hard truths Pangie! Poetry is personal space to process, critique, and sometimes mourn what’s been lost. Poetry’s power lies in its honesty, every exodus is also a search for belonging and clarity. Spring Blessings, Dear Pangie, Daniel

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/4/2025 11:09:00 AM

Dearest Daniel. Thank you for being a listening for me. There are people here, who cheer on death of others who are not like them?And it is posted? That is worse than my angst without question! Calls for murder. hiding under the aegis of free speech,is unacceptable!This has been going on for years! Positive comments supporting murder is despicable My days here are coming to a close. I was not raised with people like this.. I know what what’s been lost here. Respect for life. Many people read this. But few have your backbone to reply. Nor you care for humanity’s future. Blessings, Pangie xx

Elena Eagle

Date: 6/3/2025 6:33:00 AM

California continues to slide into a dark hole year after year. It was once “golden” but now tarnished like a piece of silverware. Gas is $2.00 more a gallon than other states, and home energy bills are up. Progressives and Democrats are great at destroying states. California is a disaster! This is a great poem!

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/3/2025 12:10:00 PM

May I say, in return, this is a fabulous comment! I like it better than my poem! I heard it was hard to even get a truck to leave here. They’re so busy. But people have some romantic idea of California.? Hey, it was that way a long time ago. But I’ve been here quite a while and it gets worse every year…boo! We are the biggest state and Dems want to run Harris or her male equivalent, Gov Newsom for President? Neither, the brightest bulb on any American block! Thank you! Pangie))

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 6/2/2025 10:18:00 PM

All I know is that California has been riddled with fire, unless I'm mistaken. I read about Georgia. Seems a better place.

Panagiota Romios
Date: 6/3/2025 12:09:00 PM

Well, there are plenty of horrors. The state is a desert. As you know trees, you dry out and die but the green movement will not allow them to be cut down. People lose homes. I’m glad you lived in Malta. I have no idea what goes on there, I think my poem explained pretty much of what’s going on. Thank you, Victor! ))