The Dominant Value of California Culture is Comfort?

I have not seen any evidence of tool-sharing or skill-sharing groups popping up in this part of the Bay Area - I had thought that if this is reality, then this part of the Bay Area may be doing well despite the Recession Depression. But then I thought about another possibility, mentioned in recent articles about Silicon Valley and I was reminded of it as a cousin mentioned that there are many California transplants moving into his town in AZ, having moved there for work opportunities.

In the survival of the financially fittest, those wage slaves who become employed or would be in need of tool-sharing group or other solutions may not be able to stay to use such solutions. They may have been pushed out of the state already because they can no longer afford to live here, having lost their jobs or they are no longer able to make payments on the banks' houses.

Who's left? Those who still have decent-paying jobs or those who are being subsidized by the public, or live in poor, undesirable areas (bad school districts).

Many of the immigrants who come here do so because of high-paying jobs and good school districts (which they believe will enable their children to have high-paying jobs as well). Those whites (geeks) who are employed at the various tech companies can't be said to be different in this regard. (Besides, both the whites and non-whites who live here are predominantly 'liberal' in their politics and mores. Do the Indians excuse fornication, so long as it is with white women? I wonder.)

Middle-class and upper middle-class people move to California for the "good" jobs, the pleasant weather, the possibility of road trips to spectacular natural areas... the nice life. For the sake of joining a community, of being part of a people? No.

Hedonism and self-gratification. It doesn't have to be in the form of drugs or rock n' roll.

Are there any gray market alternatives? What a hotbed of cultural insanity California is, and the people who live in the blue areas are ignorant of their own sickness.

Edit.
Something I read at Vox Day which was appropriate to this post:

"The Chinese are generally entrepreneurial , hard-working, family oriented, social conservatives."

That's just dandy, but none of those thing make them or anyone citizens of a nation. Is the qualification for citizenship: must be hard-working, family oriented, and conservative?

Also, they may work hard, but it's to benefit themselves, not the community. They may be family oriented, but they are oriented not around their communal families, but their nation i.e. Chinese families. And like we need more people to vote Republican.

All my Chinese expat friends are moving to Houston. There, they will move out the indigenous population and take over schools and businesses. They will not assimilate or work to improve Texas as a whole. This is all textbook Putnam.