(This is based upon a talk I gave at a recent Mises Circle meeting in San Diego.) I have lived in California for more than four years, having married a lifelong California girl a while back, having come here after retiring from being a college economics professor in Western Maryland at the end of 2021. Presently, we live in Roseville, a city of nearly 150,000 that has been called one of the country’s most livable cities. In many ways, California has been paradise. The weather is more comfortable for me than any other place where I have lived before. My car windshield isn’t plastered with bugs