California Lifestyle

California Lifestyle

Büsra, Celina

01Poverty

04 Hippies, legal drug-taking

02 Wealth

Index

05 Sources

03 Gap between poverty and wealth

06 Quiz

Poverty

• almost every 6th person is homeless
• more than 150.00 homeless people
• living on sidewalks tent to tent
• 15,4 % of California live in poverty (2018-2020)
• 70 % of the homeless population are men
• 40 % of the homeless population are Afro Americans
• Lake County -> poorest county
• cause: growth of remote work; temporal + territorial flexibility of technology; poor health
• high costs -> apartments, houses
• 97 hours of work per week -> 2 bedroom rental home
• 79 hours of work per week -> 1 bedroom rental home

Wealth

• Santa Clara County -> wealthiest county in California
• 26/100 wealthiest people live in California
• "California has the fifth-largest economy in the world", said Richard Walker

• economy: productions and consumption
• climate
• two of the most exciting metropolises -> San Francisco, Los Angeles
• white sandy beaches

Einkommensverteilung

Gap between poverty and wealth

San Fransisco

• 55 restaurants with mechiln stars
• 56 soup kitchens
• 3000 thousand start-ups
• 7500 homeless people
• northern California city -> powerful and powerless; overambitious and overwhelmed; absolutely rich and unexpressibly poor

14% high 21%61% average income 50% 25% low 29% 1972 2015

• tens of thousand move to the metropolitan regions every year: software engineer, designer
• thousands leave the city: teachers, policemen

People who smoke weed

Hippies

• flower-power movement
• known as flower child
• believe in angels and other things
• historical presedence as far back as the Mazdakist movement
• started in San Fransico
• Santa Cruz has moer Hippie-frendly ambience then any other Cali area

• Mount Shasta
• Arcata
• Guerneville

• minimum age: 21
• only 28 grams of pure canabis
• medical cannabis and adult (recreational) use
• there are rule for the use
• you can use it on private property

Sources

• https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/usa-kluft-zwischen-arm-und-reich-wird-tiefer-und-tiefer-a-1120075.html
• https://calmatters.org/economy/poverty/2016/08/income-inequality-in-california-may-not-look-like-you-think-it-does-and-why-that-may-be-a-good-thing/
• https.//www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/california.htm
• https://www.hapersbazaar.de/fashion/california-lifestyle
• https://moveforhunger.org/hunger-and-homelessness#:~:text=More%20than%2042%20million%20Americans,a%20single%20night%20in%202020.

Quiz

1) How old do you have to be to be allowed to smoke weed ? 2) Which city is the wealthiest in California ? 3) Which are the most exciting metropolises ? 4) Which town is known as "Hippie haven" ? True or False: 5) 70 % of the homeless population are Women. 6) It`s legal to smoke weed in public. 7) Flower power movement was a slogan during late 60s and early 70s.

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