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Make California Red Again:

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Ceffer says

Make California Red Again:

You dream. I’ve got five more years in this craphole.

Another Number One: passing KommieKunt unconstitutional laws passed then defeated in court. They must have a hamper at the Ninth Circuit for California crap laws passed. Ninth Circuit is allegedly the most liberal, yet they overturn much of the Kommie legislative output that California tries to foist. The Ninth Circuit should just set up a booth at the legislature. Or, maybe they should set up the booth in Peking.

Encino isn't da ghetto. It's a ritzy upper middle class to wealthy suburb.

I love California. You all can have Texas and Kentucky.

Though I will admit that its not so great if you poor and uneducated.

https://breebornstein.com/blog/why-california-is-the-best-place-on-earth-to-live

The truth is in the middle. CA has so many natural advantages that it will always be desired. Plus life during the dot com boom was a never ending party in the bay area and likely for the families in the decades leading up to it. It peaked with RHCPs release of Californication and the Matrix. It had another good run - not as good as the dot com boom - during the housing bubble, but has been ailing ever since. It will eventually come back, gotta get rid of the leftoids first. New SF Mayor is actually decent and taking a few pages out of Trump's playbook.

Interesting that the author of that article entirely ignores the level of crime in Los Angeles, the seemingly endless homeless encampments that should be named Garcettivilles after the mayor that caused them, the miserable traffic, and the insanely high cost of housing, not to mention governmental incompetence at the state and loca level.

Nomograph says

I love California. You all can have Texas and Kentucky.

Though I will admit that its not so great if you poor and uneducated.

https://breebornstein.com/blog/why-california-is-the-best-place-on-earth-to-live

The weather and scenery attracts a lot of folks. All you have to see when you are freezing your ass off in the Northeast is the Rosebowl, and you’re gone. But like anything, it gets mundane. Also, like Hawaii, it attracts folks who are lured by the weather and scenery but don’t have a solid plan to thrive. I’ve lived in Encinitas in the North County of San Diego, and the Bay Area, and Sierra foothills. The downside of CA - traffic, too many Mexicans, tax dollar sucking public union pensioners, terrible leadership, and frankly, residents who never experience living elsewhere once settled, and are the frogs in the slowly boiling water.

The siren song that keeps people paying quadruple to quintuple for crap shacks and a chance to compete ass to elbow with entitled, greedy, materialistic fuckwads.

I hope people like California and stay there.

Too many Californians have lately moved to Texas, probably because of wonderful Texas climate and great scenery of petrochemical industry.

Bd6r says

I hope people like California and stay there.

Too many Californians have lately moved to Texas, probably because of wonderful Texas climate and great scenery of petrochemical industry.

The appeal of Texas is no secret…lots of good paying jobs, cheaper houses, and a better environment for raising kids.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Bd6r says

I hope people like California and stay there.

Too many Californians have lately moved to Texas, probably because of wonderful Texas climate and great scenery of petrochemical industry.

The appeal of Texas is no secret…lots of good paying jobs, cheaper houses, and a better environment for raising kids.

I was just being sarcastic. People run from CA to TX despite CA having outstanding climate and best possible scenery. Must be something about the way how CA is being run…

Bd6r says

I was just being sarcastic. People run from CA to TX despite CA having outstanding climate and best possible scenery.

Sarcastic or not, paying 3-10x's for property because of weather and some mountains is kind of insane. If you make high W-2 income then you could be looking at 13% on top end income taxes. Prop 13 isn't a benefit to a newcomer that doesn't plan to stay for more than 20 years. The new tax rate on a purchase would be prohibitive unless it's foreign cash, which a lot is.

I'm not bashing CA when I comment like this. CA was a top 3 relocation spot we were thinking of 10 years ago. The math didn't add up. We'd have lost $50-80k per year at least living there. Income would have been the same as IL. Makes sense for foreigners to park their cash in real estate there, but not stateside people. CA is probably the worst state to live in as a blue collar or low level white collar worker. NY, NJ, IL are probably in the top 5. OR and WA are up there too, but that's more about the people that live there. I couldn't do those two.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Bd6r says

I hope people like California and stay there.

Too many Californians have lately moved to Texas, probably because of wonderful Texas climate and great scenery of petrochemical industry.

The appeal of Texas is no secret…lots of good paying jobs, cheaper houses, and a better environment for raising kids.

If you are/were in tech though your higher salary in the bay area would have made up for the higher cost. That has changed now as tech isn't the goldmine any more it used to be, hence a bit of an exodus. Another item people overlook is the food, no doubt CA has the best food quality and variety of all states. Loolomg towards the eat coast I really like NH, but the house prices (esp. coastal) and taxes are insane, negating a lot of the income tax benefit. Similar to CA, if you make a lot it's worthwhile.

Ceffer says

The siren song that keeps people paying quadruple to quintuple for crap shacks and a chance to compete ass to elbow with entitled, greedy, materialistic fuckwads.

The Hook! I learned to surf there in the 1980s. There was a static rope that helped you get up/down the cliff. I'll bet it's pretty crowded nowadays! Santa Cruz is beautiful.

brazil66 says

There was a static rope that helped you get up/down the cliff.

It's been completely rebuilt with concrete cliffs and a nice stairway down to the ocean now. When we first came here, before the rebuild, it looked like rickety wood stairs and hard to negotiate. They must have had a lot of accidents just going down and coming back up.

The stairs are a good place to get shit on by the cormorants.

@mell wrt to food TX is not worse, may be even better if you take prices into account. Houston has everything you may want since it is a genuine melting pot with many cultures.

Bd6r says

mell wrt to food TX is not worse, may be even better if you take prices into account. Houston has everything you may want since it is a genuine melting pot with many cultures.

Been to TX, mostly Austin area but also Houston, and I will say the BBQ is unbeatable and the food is good in general. However ethnic (non-mexican) food is better in the CA, esp. in the bay area. Prices agreed, higher here. Next place needs to be east coast for a few, still researching, any tips welcome.