Our friends and the Pacific Research Institute have published a clever Survivor’s Guide to California.

It chronicles the blizzard of regulations, high taxes, union rules, and crazy green energy policies that have transformed California from the leading destination state to the leading exodus state (though New York is neck and neck in that race to the bottom).

One of the shocking findings of the report is PRI’s tally of prominent companies that have left California for mostly red states – including Texas, Utah, Montana, and Arizona.

Here’s PRI’s list and it is extensive:

• • • Toyota Motors North America
    • Carl’s Jr.
    • Jacobs Engineering Group
    • Nissan North America
    • Nestle
    • Jamba Juice
    • Occidental Petroleum
    • Hewlett-Packard, whose founding is recognized as the birth of Silicon Valley
    • Tesla
    • SpaceX
    • Charles Schwab
    • Oracle

PRI notes (only half-jokingly) that “California’s Most Competitive Industry Is Moving Vans.”

A 2023 poll found that 40% of residents say they’re contemplating moving out of California, with nearly half of them saying they’re considering that ‘very seriously.'”

Did we mention that Kamala Harris’s plan is to make America look like California?