The rest are sales pitch, motivation, family, movie clips, and a lot on how to raise limits of your credit cards and get your 401K self-directed to make it easier for FortuneTakers to vacuum all that money out of you. 

(With some college textbooks and a collection of gay porn movies from the local video store still in the back seat!

It would be like that movie, The Sixth Sense. 

"Ridiculous system with five year enslavement"Apparently we've fallen out of a real estate forum and into a sci-fi movie.

For every real estate tycoon (or sports star, movie star, retail tycoon, or internet entrepreneur) there are hundreds or thousands of people who are just as smart, know just as many right answers, and work just as hard, but just do something a little different and come out much worse.

I think everyone who can should, and should get everyone they know who can, to do so too. this is a crisis, not a movie. we are the players in the story unfolding. so choose your roles and get in the game for some real positive change.BOTTOM LINE1. what are the real issues2. how can they be solved3. what is the best way to carry this out4. get to it

:roll: I once worked with a Special effects guy who was a police officer for twenty years in Kentucky prior to become an Effects man on movies.

Just try driving somewhere during daylight hours, going to a restaurant or movie on a weekend, or attending a public event, such as the County Fair or Sawdust Festival.Yes, if several million people left California, we could downgrade our status to simply "Cramped".

I do see the piracy issue, seems like copywritten materials, movies, songs or print could be encoded somehow and when downlloaded could be checked against a data base and if it didn't pass, the stuff would just smoke or not play.

California is a HUGE state with a very long coastline, and various priced markets along the coast that have beautiful scenery, from the giant Redwoods and ocean with rock outcroppings, and lush greenery (site of Jurassic Park movies)  of the northern coastal areas of Humboldt and Del Norte counties, down to San Diego, etc.