And Japan is still the most peaceful place to live!
California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy
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Re: California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy
#12California’s GDP is now twice as large as Russia’s.
Yet the President of the United States seems to spend a lot of time trying to make Russians happy, and zero time making Californians happy.
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#13California’s GDP is now twice as large as Russia’s. Yet the President of the United States seems to spend a lot of time trying to make Russians happy, and zero time making Californians happy.
California should acquire some nuclear weapons then.
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I have probably never felt more insecure (and disgusted at the same time) in a Western country, the way I felt on the streets of LA. Not all of them, of course, some are obviously well guarded - which in turn makes me think the government and city council is not doing a great job really.
Is the situation as bad in San Francisco?
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#16The title almost implies that CA had some unnatural acceleration to put it past japan. I think it's more that japan has been declining.
This won't last once the US population starts declining. We've been held afloat by immigration but even that's running out.
Japan was ahead of the curve in terms of modernity. Looking at them is almost like looking at our own future.
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That would be silly, California is what it is today because it is part of the United States. The ports by themselves bring in a lot of money and being another country introduces two new borders that the United States would want to avoid and go around. It also has a lot of money in the financial sector, which would gain significant extra barriers and costs with the rest of US businesses if it wasn't part of the US. Plus the only places where you get majority support for that sort of thing in more dense urban areas and losing large chunks of the state's landmass would definitely hurt the California economy.
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Taiwan is not free.
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I have probably never felt more insecure (and disgusted at the same time) in a Western country, the way I felt on the streets of LA. Not all of them, of course, some are obviously well guarded - which in turn makes me think the government and city council is not doing a great job really. Is the situation as bad in San Francisco?
LA is freaking large. Depending on where you are some places are more disgusting then others while other places are completely pristine.
SF is worse. But SF is also tiny.