The comments in the OP's article are roughly 99% along the lines of "California Sucks."
I know there are pockets of sanity in that state, but those pockets seem unable to thwart the state's overall swirl down the proverbial toilet.
I know of several people who have unassed the state. Most of them have not brought their idiotic utopian bullshit vision with them -- on the contrary. But there are plenty who have moved to Phoenix or Boise or even to Virginia who stupidly want to bring their leftist bent to flyover country, thereby re-creating the hellhole that the principal cities in California have become.