I bought my house in Palo Alto, California 25 years ago for $295,000. It's now worth $2.2 million. Oregonians are upset about an invasion of foreigners driving up housing prices? Cry me a river!

For every Oregonian who is wailing about the influx from California, there are five others who are wringing their hands with glee over the prices they are getting for their properties. That's what happened here.

There should be laws restricting purchase of property by foreign nationals. If that had been the case, you wouldn't have people needing to flee California. But until we, as a society, decide that the Golden Rule is better than Gold Rules, Californians are going to be snapping up properties in Oregon until there are enough of them residing there that the haters will have to back off.

With any luck, with enough former California voters, the Oregon corporate tax rate will get bumped up and you all will get a halfway decent public school system.

Deb Goldeen, Palo Alto, California