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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The University of California schools.[/quote]

California is a horrid place.[/quote]
Most people would move to CA if they could afford it.  If you have a lot of money, it's a great place.[/quote]

+1, and I have family and friends there over a broad range of political beliefs, industries, and backgrounds. California is pretty magical. People will grumble about politics and taxes and the traffic and even aspects of the culture, but you cannot beat the weather or the natural beauty. I have lived there before and would go back in a heartbeat of the finances lined up, despite knowing all its many downsides. Whenever I visit, it takes about 12 hours before I wish I live there again (sometimes it happens the minute I get off the plane, if I'm on a pleasure trip to certain destinations).

If my kid wanted to attend and got into a UC school, I'd be thrilled. And many of those schools are really good too (not all). But it's increasingly very, very hard for out of state applicants.[/quote]

I was born in the Bay Area and now live in flyover country.

It's sunnier there than where I live now but...my valley now has way more sprawl and smog than it did.  There is also really bad traffic, the real estate prices are incredibly terrible, San Francisco is grungier, the BART is grungier, my old elementary school in a high-priced neighborhood looks run down, and the weather seems to be getting worse (fires, rain deluges).  Objectively, it doesn't look like a great trend.[/quote]
I mean.. climate change is hitting a lot of cities. Look at Houston today.

But, if you have $$$$ you aren't concerning yourself with BART much.

[b]The real estate prices are crazy because of the demand, which means a lot of people with a lot of money want to live there.[/b][/quote]

It is not affordable for young people, and this thread is about colleges.  California lags in affordable housing.

UC Berkeley and UCLA are the top publics.  I doubt that the home ownership stats of their graduates would be anywhere close to the top.[/quote]

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