This is hilarious: In 2008, at the height of the credit crunch and with 11% unemployment, California started running television ads in the UK to get people to relocate to California! I assume it was just something that had been in the pipeline for a while, and they were stopped after a few weeks, although for the life of me I can't understand why they let the commercials run at all.
Now, 18 months later, they are running the exact same ads, except they've changed the website to "VisitCalifornia.com"! I can't find the original online, but here is the "new" ad (with some outtakes) and you can still plainly tell they were recruiting people:
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