{"id":73763,"date":"2012-04-22T04:48:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T10:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=73763"},"modified":"2012-04-22T04:48:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T10:48:42","slug":"the-great-california-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=73763","title":{"rendered":"The Great California Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304444604577340531861056966.html?mod=opinion_newsreel\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Kotkin<\/a> lays out some inconvenient truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Kotkin, one of the nation&#8217;s premier demographers, left his native New York City in 1971 to enroll at the University of California, Berkeley. The state was a far-out paradise for hipsters who had grown up listening to the Mamas &amp; the Papas&#8217; iconic &#8220;California Dreamin'&#8221; and the Beach Boys&#8217; &#8220;California Girls.&#8221; But it also attracted young, ambitious people &#8220;who had a lot of dreams, wanted to build big companies.&#8221; Think Intel, Apple and Hewlett-Packard.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, the Golden State&#8217;s fastest-growing entity is government and its biggest product is red tape. The first thing that comes to many American minds when you mention California isn&#8217;t Hollywood or tanned girls on a beach, but Greece. Many progressives in California take that as a compliment since Greeks are ostensibly happier. But as Mr. Kotkin notes, Californians are increasingly pursuing happiness elsewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Kotkin lays out some inconvenient truth. Mr. Kotkin, one of the nation&#8217;s premier demographers, left his native New York City in 1971 to enroll at the University of California, Berkeley. The state was a far-out paradise for hipsters who had grown up listening to the Mamas &amp; the Papas&#8217; iconic &#8220;California Dreamin&#8217;&#8221; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73764,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73763\/revisions\/73764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}