After taking to Twitter last week to announce that he would be moving his family out of Gavin Newsom’s California, as the state has turned into a crim-ridden dump under Newsom’s watch, actor Scott Baio appeared on Fox Business’ “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street” on Friday. During that appearance, Mr. Baio explained exactly how he and his family came to the decision to leave.
Speaking to her, he said, “Florida is pretty much what America was like 50 years ago. It’s just people hanging out. Everything’s wide open, it’s free, the people that I meet are all just nice.” Continuing, he then added, “And there seems to be no attitude down here. I mean, no place is perfect. But it’s just a different feel here.”
The Hollywood star best known for his roles in “Charles in Charge” and “Happy Days” originally announced his family’s decision to leave Los Angeles after 45 years in the Golden State because of the homeless problem in the city, saying, “After 45 years, I’m making my way to finally “exit stage right” from California. The most recent survey conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found approximately 69,000 people experiencing homelessness in L.A. County and 41,000 in the city in 2022.”
Speaking to Bartiromo, he clarified why the homeless population is such an issue in the city, saying, “Safety is the issue. If you don’t feel safe, it’s not worth living in the town that you’re in, because we didn’t feel safe… it’s become a city and a state where the victims are the criminals, and the criminals are the victims.”
That goes along with what Baio told Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters on Tuesday. During that interview, he said that he’s watched Southern California devolve into a “third-world country” in the last 45 years “between the homeless defecating on the sidewalk, doing drugs on the sidewalk in the middle of the day, illegal aliens all over the place, laws means nothing, crime is out of control, graffiti on everything and all my tax dollars I don’t know what they go for.”
On Tuesday, he retweeted his own April 20 tweet in which he said, “Living our best life in Florida,” and posted a selfie of him and his wife on the beach.
Living our best life in Florida. pic.twitter.com/bTIKUmZRmB
— Scott Baio (@ScottBaio) April 20, 2023
Speaking about how much nicer Florida is than California, Biao said, “It’s clean, you don’t see graffiti, you don’t see homeless [people]. So, it’s just fantastic.”
He added that he would vote for anyone who would fix things, but that Democrats don’t do that, saying, “I would vote for a Democrat if they were going to fix some of this stuff. I would. But I don’t think the other side would ever vote for a Republican to fix it.”
Baio is far from the only Hollywood personality to leave California as things get worse and worse. Actor Mark Wahlberg left for the sake of his family as well, saying, “It’s really giving the kids a chance to thrive,” Wahlberg went on to elaborate: “It just has the best of both worlds. I know a lot of people, when they think Las Vegas, they think the Strip. But just about 15, 20 minutes away, there’s a whole lot of other amazing areas that are all about family and community.”
Further, Wahlberg is positive about the chances for his kids to live a good life in Las Vegas, his new home, as he builds a movie industry from the ground up there, as we reported on The American Tribune, saying:
Wahlberg listed his Beverly Hills estate and purchased a house in The Summit Club in Summerlin, just outside of Las Vegas. Being the good dad he is, he did it all for his kids, saying the move was about: “really about giving the kids an opportunity to pursue their goals and dreams.” “My daughter’s an equestrian. My son’s a golfer. My oldest daughter, now she’s off to college. My son’s a junior.”
Featured image credit: Scott Biao Twitter
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