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Move if you dont like it. Thats what your fellow citizens want. There is nothing Big Brother about hot water laws, just like adulterated foods, water quality rules, etc. Does it have a rational relation to the health safety and welfare of the public? Is it an unreasonable burden?
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Such statements are pathetic, Wild. "Move if you don't like it"? Seriously? Gradually nicking away at personal freedoms and seeing no effect from it politically just emboldens politicians to meddle further and further in our private lives. The trend should worry you even if the current things being limited/restricted does not.
What will you do, Wild, if the president & gang call for federal restrictions on guns to the extent it affected you? Would you move? Perhaps you should move from your very free state of Alaska to England.
Change doesn't always come quickly, nor can your fight against that change wait until it is upon your own doorstep. If the lower 48 gradually started restricting personal freedoms, your beloved state wouldn't be able to hold out against that tide. California is a massive state, and things that get passed there could just as easily end up getting pushed through elsewhere.
People shouldn't always flee, sometimes they need to fight. People of color and women were discriminated against for decades in the USA via state and local laws. Should they have found somewhere else to live or should they have fought to get back their 'inalienable rights' and a measure of equality? Just because someone manages to pass a law doesn't mean the fight is over.
California should be a warning of the direction we're headed in. England even moreso.