Last time I was in Orange County was 2015.
I saw so many women asking for money. They were sitting or standing in parking lot entrance/exits with signs declaring their need for help. I was in a kind of shock at first.

When I stopped for gas there was usually a few panhandlers with children with them or waiting in the car for their mom. Or dad.
I think they were living in the cars or getting money for motel rooms.

You couldn't sit at an outside bench or table and have coffee without somebody coming around asking for change. What was most different was all the foot traffic.
I mean, it's always a traffic jam with cars but there are thousands of people on the streets, day and night. All colors, cultures and lots and lots of kids and babies walking on the streets. Everywhere.

I won't go back. I can't go back there. I WAS BORN there and most of my relatives live there.
It's not my California. It used to be a good place to live.
That is gone.
The last time I went, it hurt to see it.