More CaliFail: California’s hidden homeless: Teachers, chefs, nurses and other middle class workers living in cars in parking lots because of the state’s crazy property prices

We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again. (And it isn’t we who originally highlighted the issue.) California is the POOREST STATE IN THE UNION WHEN COST OF LIVING IS FACTORED. That’s right, Mississippi, in relative terms on a per capita basis, is wealthier than California now.

Man, how the state has fallen.

Some people’s minds are blown by this. They always say things like – “Oh yeah, well, California has the 11th largest economy in the world etc etc. It’s not poor.”

And in a sense these people are correct. The state isn’t poor overall, though it is losing businesses left and right because of over regulation and over taxation. It is the PEOPLE in relative terms, who are poor in California.

Unless the once golden state changes its ways it will continue to descend into the developing world.

(From The Daily Mail)

The rising cost of rent and housing in California is forcing residents into alternative accommodation with middle class workers taking up residence in their cars and RVs by the side of the road to make ends meet.

Hundreds of people, including nurses and chefs, are sleeping in parking lots in affluent areas like Santa Barbara as they make the most of the only homes they can afford.

Marva Ericson, who works as a nursing assistant, has been sleeping in her Kia for the past three months. She wakes up before dawn each day, showers at the local YMCA and dresses in her hospital scrubs to head to work.

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