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It was hot and humid as hell interspersed with thunderstorms, no big surprise,
Thanks for sharing! So much good info there! Will bookmark this link :)
The hype around "move away from CA" seems so trendy nowadays. I appreciate the insight and to a degree it matches what relatives told me (who moved from CA to TX).
I had no idea about some points. For instance:
"2. No public land
Think about public land much? Yeah, me neither. On the West Coast, we take public land for granted. Soaring Sierra Nevadas, sandy beaches, public space canyons, and even trails along creeks are standard fare in the West — not to mention Yosemite. Not so in Texas.
Because of Texas' history and lack of natural barriers (mountains, oceans) to settlement, most all of the land around is private and flat or rolling hills. Yes, there is a lot of land in Texas, but it all has barbed wire fences and no trespassing signs on it. Even creeks are parceled up as private property."
But what kills it right off the bat is "Austin, like California, is not affordable."
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Curious. If you are not intent on leaving California, why do you care what other people are doing?
I spent some time in Austin back in 1996 when I was part of a software rollout. I stayed right near the state capitol. I loved Austin.
Ever been to the Texas Gulf Coast? Don't go.
I won't flame the guy who is making an honest attempt to describe Austin
Seriously, it's worth making Cali leave the Union even if it's a half trillion severance package. It will save loads in the long run and the country will turn hard to the center right.
Good, these fucks need to stay out of TX. I sure as shit wouldn't rent any of my houses to them.
Person quoted in OP is a fucking Clownifornia idiot and should be taken behind a barn and shot like a crazy dog.
Yeah, Californians just bring the sunshine with them everywhere they go.
The Texas Capitol building is massively Texan. It is the biggest capitol in the countryI've just been reading about its construction in the mid-1880's at the same time an axe wielding murderer was at first invading the servants quarters and brutally killing black women while leaving a couple of children alive. Then it became white women, scaring the bejeebers out of the populace in that gaslit era. The book is The Midnight Assassin. From the floor of Capitol, you can see way up in the dome a spiral staircase on about the third level that disappears into the region above the dome. Tours used to be allowed up the spiral staircase, but it was so high that once someone looked down, they would freeze and have to be taken back down by employees. It's no longer accessible to the public, but someone made this very brief still video up to the top. Once at the top, you have access to the exterior of the dome.
The Texas Capitol building is massively Texan.
Like I said, we attract those obnoxious types from everywhere. They quickly assume their Californicated Identities and then project that obnoxious persona to everywhere else. It seems like some kind of smugness to boast that now that (inside their minds) they're Californians, they're a superior type of person.
Honestly, "local" kids like me are put off by this sh*t. Besides being obnoxious to us, it makes the rest of the country hate us.
I appreciated the article and the guy's honesty. My wife and I have the debate often about leaving San Diego; she wants to stay and I think about going primarily for financial reasons. But, I do need to be realistic about what we'd be getting by leaving San Diego to only trade one set of problems for another. We're very fortunate that I have a high-paying job as an IT executive, so supporting our family of 4 as the sole breadwinner is not a problem at all.
Having said that, the financial frugality in me makes CA drive me nuts...but would it really be "better" elsewhere? I do really enjoy the weather and landscape here, especially now with COVID. I go on walks every day and bike rides every few days. I can play golf year round. I enjoy looking at the beauty. Coming from being a Trump supporter and caring about our financial health, it definitely takes a mental toll living here. However, we rent a basic home in a great school district, have two 8-year-old cars that we p...
porkchopexpress saysI appreciated the article and the guy's honesty. My wife and I have the debate often about leaving San Diego; she wants to stay and I think about going primarily for financial reasons. But, I do need to be realistic about what we'd be getting by leaving San Diego to only trade one set of problems for another. We're very fortunate that I have a high-paying job as an IT executive, so supporting our family of 4 as the sole breadwinner is not a problem at all.
Having said that, the financial frugality in me makes CA drive me nuts...but would it really be "better" elsewhere? I do really enjoy the weather and landscape here, especially now with COVID. I go on walks every day and bike rides every few days. I can play golf year round. I enjoy looking at the beauty. Coming from being a Trump supporter and caring about our financial health, it definitely takes a mental toll living here. ...
I would make a reasonable deduction that may be until early 90's CA was a nice place to live in?
I would make a reasonable deduction that may be until early 90's CA was a nice place to live in?
mich saysLooking into North Carolina.
NC is the next state that is Californizing.
the narrative of the region has come to be dominated by Cool and Hip Smugsters who migrated to here from all over the US and all over the world. Now they're minting their next generation of Smugsters.
Rb6d saysI would make a reasonable deduction that may be until early 90's CA was a nice place to live in?
I would say until the early 2000s, maybe even as far as 2010.
Similar to my family. We are planning to move just don't know where.
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