First of all, every single person in California is here because they or their relatives were transplants. Unless you’re Native American, you are as much of a carpet bagger as anyone else here and your right to be here is not any greater than anyone else’s.

Second, I’m not responsible for the planning choices of cities across the Bay Area, including Palo Alto and Santa Cruz. Palo Alto chose to add jobs here. Do you think people who get good-paying job offers here should be turning them down? Why? Do they somehow owe it to other people to remain in less good jobs? On what basis? Why do people already in California have more rights than the people who are coming to California? Have you ever turned down a good job because it’s located in a place with a housing shortage? Have you ever told a friend or a relative to turn down a good job in the service of the community in which that job is located? I highly doubt it.

The city of Palo Alto has chosen not to permit sufficient amounts of housing. Cities up and down Silicon Valley have chosen not to add a sufficient amount of housing. Santa Cruz, seeing a rise in college enrollees and in its population in general, has also chosen not to permit a sufficient amount of housing. The fault here lies with the negligent decision-making of city governments and not with individuals trying to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. You are out of line and incredibly rude.

And it’s funny that you should be so incredibly rude to a person who has spent years telling the city of Palo Alto to build housing precisely because she wanted to prevent displacement of people in other areas!