Just ask California:
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I was at a cocktail party the other night lamenting to a number of business owners (more successful folks than I) about problems I am having in CA. Usually I get sympathy, but there was none to be had. They looked at me like I was a moron, like I was the guy who went $30,000 in debt for a puppetry degree. They said they had gotten out of CA years ago, would never go back, and (essentially) if I was stupid enough to be there, it was my own damn fault.