The ever-burgeoning California state bureaucracy was created solely to enrich and empower the politicians at the great expense of the people.
It has become so difficult to navigate in order to accomplish even minor tasks, and so burdened with high fees every step of the way, that only very experienced lawyers are now capable of, and required to, intercede on behalf of the citizens of this state.
The employees of these bureaus and departments are highly paid and poorly trained, and the self-help websites are archaic and loaded with unstated, hidden requirements to make them function properly, that can only be discovered by calling and asking after waiting on hold for awhile.
For example, I paid the fee to download a simple search result that would have been free anywhere else. But after paying, the download link took me on a circular path back to the download link. I called one of them, waited on hold for awhile, told the person what the problem was and was given an email address to write to, to tell them.
So I did that and after awhile received a response with the .pdf file I’d paid for and the message that “In the future, be sure to disable any popup blockers and clear your cache and cookies.” In order for their links to work, instead of being able to simply download the file without all that. Most reputable and reliable software sellers will automatically start a download and automatically send you an email, as well. Not California. With them it’s a snipe hunt undertaken in a nightmare.
When you clear cache and cookies you lose all the Auto-Fill information you’ve typed in to your most often visited websites, you wipe off all the passwords you’ve stored in your computer, and if you don’t have all of that information written down somewhere, it’s gone and you have to do all of it all over again. Some of those passwords will be irretrievable and for them, you’re screwed. So NO, California, that’s a NO.
I wish I’d never moved back here.