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Colorado Dreamin'

Let me say straight away that I love California. I have never been happier anywhere else, and I am just plain not leaving. The trend for Boalt grads seems to be to stick around as well, which people back east can never seem to understand. I can't tell you how many times I heard, "Well, you shouldn't go to Berkeley, because they don't put people anywhere besides California," when I was deciding whether to come out here. Berkeley always claimed that was simply because most of its grads liked it here. How gratifying it was to find out that was true.

It made me all the more sad, then, to read this article proclaiming the death of the California Dream. It seems people are leaving the state at a more rapid pace than people are entering it, thanks largely to failing schools, dilapidated urban centers, and high housing prices. (The article also cites high rates of immigration as a reason to leave, with which I strongly take issue.) I think the whole piece is a little overblown. Nonetheless, when we stand to lose a congressional seat over this, it definitely seems worth talking about. What do you guys think? Are you planning to leave? Why?

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).