I don’t know, 39.5m with net growth might disagree with you. Are you living in California at present? If not, do any of the deregulation in laws where you are trouble you. If so, when do you plan on leaving and where to?

California is one of the only states in the union seeing a population decline year over year (while surrounding states are seeing population growth).

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2026/demo/stat...

And that doesn't even take in to account the major businesses fleeing the state as well.