Lifelong Residents Who Left California Last Year Speak of Frustrations With the Golden State

Logan Day stands outside his family's new home in Kentucky. Longtime California residents, the Days left the state last year, citing rising costs of living and impacts of increased regulation as some of the reasons. Courtesy of September Day

IRVINE, Calif.—A longtime resident of Piñon Hills, Calif., Shannon Larison moved to Kentucky last March. She feels the middle class can’t survive in California.

“House prices are astronomical,” Larison told The Epoch Times. “Trying to raise a family there—we have five children—it was just too hard.”