@julieofthespirits@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs Yeah. It's actively dystopian, made moreso by people gaslighting others abt the choices the state has made, while thousands of people sleep under freeway overpasses and the air burns your throat and eyes. I've biked thru parts of LA that do not seem like they are in the US, infrastructurally
That said @kiwi I totally relate to nostalgia upon leaving a formative place. And I think people are very invested in believing CA is some sort of eden on earth