The thing about California is that despite all the taxes the infrastructure sucks, the roads are among the worst in the country, we know from past droughts a lot of the water infrastructure is 75 years old and in terrible shape, they couldn’t build any of that stupid train, and on top of that they tie everything up in red tape and developers can’t build anything so real estate prices are out of control. Spending six figures and years to develop and install La Sombrita, a mesh metal bus stop shade, qualifies as a big infrastructure achievement.
It’s a beautiful state with wonderful cities but they have developed punishments to torture residents at basically every income level above indigence and are daring everyone to leave.