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I’ve convinced my wife and two kids that we’re leaving Commiefornia
I hear ya. It's an unverifiable opinion, but the eating part is better in the Midwest hence the weight gain, lol. Outside of authentic Mexican, I'm not sure I've had what I'd consider a good meal in CA at a high(er) end place (non-chain). I'm sure there's good food somewhere, but I've had little luck and Yelp blows.
porkchopexpress saysWe're in San Diego county and been here for over 10 years. I've lived in many places but mostly in CA.I’ve convinced my wife and two kids that we’re leaving Commiefornia
porkchop, thank you for sharing.
Which part of California are you in? Are you a native Californian? If not, when (what age) did you arrive, and why did you come then?
Why did you choose Nashville?
Good luck to you!
the trade-offs are far too great to stay here anymore.
Personal thanks to @GavinNewsom as I am officially leaving the dystopian nightmare of California for the free state of Florida. My successful business and all my employees are coming with.
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porkchopexpress saysAre you contemplating something similar?the trade-offs are far too great to stay here anymore.
Fascinating.
Thank you for sharing.
I’ve convinced my wife and two kids that we’re leaving Commiefornia and going to Nashville next Summer. Enough is enough.
Are you contemplating something similar?
Unlike you, Patrick and others who have shared on this blog, I am a local with deep roots here that compel me to remain under the present circumstances.
We too are leaving early next year, been looking at properties in Florida. I do have to say, it's cheaper, but only slightly more conservative than CA. Plenty of same corporations with their fag flags and BLM signs there too in Tampa. But i you go further out of the city, it gets more conservative.
Not moving out of state or out of town, but I've now been pegged with finding construction lenders.... fuck. Not sure if anyone has rehabbed a house, but today is bittersweet. 100's if not thousands of hours of work is going to be someone else's soon. Never intended having 3 kids in this house, 2 would have worked, but the time has come. Might list this spring. Kind of depressed about it to be honest. I'm also burned out from the constant projects. So maybe a new house will be nice. Giving up the fight and we'll likely be building new. Fuck again.
Area around Jacksonville is based but there is a lot of crime in the city.
If you don't need to go to the beach every weekend, check Central Florida, or the East Coast North of Martin County
There will be very good deals in a year or two when the real estate market collapses.
We are just now contemplating a 'window of flight' to some safe haven where we could rent a place and leave our properties here under custodianship remotely. Somewhere in mountain Arizona or Nevada sounds like a reasonable bet. There is too much uncertainty everywhere to think that permanent lily pad hopping might make something better. Investigating places requires direct hands on exploration, and probably staying for a while to see what they are like. Arizona has an active conservative militia that could work.
Things are too much in the air and unpredictable at the moment. We may take some spring journeys to check things out. SoCal will likely be going feral pretty rapidly, especially with the illegal influxes. Crime will be the only way they can make a living.
I don't like Nashville. Was just there. Very transient. Lots of younger people move there trying to get into music. Has a solid corporate business foothold, so there's jobs. PorkChop is right about 6 hours to the Panhandle. But there's a shit ton within 6 hours in any direction from central TN. Big negatives about the Nashville area is winter occasionally happens. It's a shit show. No plows, salt or sand. Basically it shuts down. Tornados as mentioned. Humidity from the Great Lakes down to FL can be brutal if you're not used to it. Solid airport centrally located, so flights to east, west and Caribbean are generally 3 hours non-stop.Fair comment about Nashville but we wouldn't live in Nashville proper but a suburb outside. Regarding weather, Nashville seems decent especially compared to states other than CA. For how rare snow happens, I can deal because my cars are AWD and I have no daily commute.
One of my wife's work friends moved to Nashville suburb and loved it. She couldn't believe (after California) that she had nice friends right away. She only moved later because she was chasing her kids around.Good to hear. We visited it recently as a family for the first time and really liked it. The people, the vibe, etc.
I thought that one typically doesn't go to the beach even in Key West in the middle of the winter.
The mandatory vaccination for kids in schools was the final straw. If that means dealing with some imperfect weather, bring it on.
I suspect that in the next couple of months that crowds in Europe will be storming the bureaucrats haunts and physically dragging them out unless major fire power is deployed. That will just lead to more push back on them. They will wind up dragged to the nooses and guillotines.
If you put all that together, parts of Texas look pretty good. It won't be as pretty as AZ or NV mountains or have as nice climate, but land is fertile and populace heavily armed.
I saw websites for such guided hunts that are linked to butchers who will ship anywhere in the world.
Bd6r,
I used to watch a show about Pig Hunting in Texas. I think it was called "American Hogger".
Something I was interested in doing since college days three decades ago, was Pig Hunting in Central California. So finally, in my mid-50's I took the NRA classes with my kids, learned to shoot, etc., and had a fabulous time hunting those varmints recently with my son and son-in-law. My son-in-law showed me some youtube videos of Guided Pig Hunts With Dogs in Texas. That looks fascinating and loads of fun. I saw websites for such guided hunts that are linked to butchers who will ship anywhere in the world. It's my next bucket-list-destination.
You're going to build your own new house? Why bother when many are for sale? Maybe low inventory in your area?
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http://myuhaulstory.com/2019/01/02/uhaul-names-top-50-growth-states-for-2018/
Almost twice as much to leave California for Texas than Vice-Versa:
https://lightfromtheright.com/2012/11/22/latest-haul-index-shows-californians-leaving-for-texas/
When you bring a U-Haul back to California, you do the company a favor, so another Middle Class family can leave for Texas.