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Why I’m Leaving California (my honest thoughts will probably offend you)
YouTube ^ | 11 Feb 2022 | Honey & Absinthe

Posted on 08/24/2022 6:04:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom

As a California, moving out of California especially Los Angeles was not an easy decision. I grew up here, all my friends and family are here, and my whole career was here. But with high taxes, expensive cost of living, and dwindling opportunity, there’s no longer any incentive to live here. I’m in the process of moving and every time I get any kind of fear or anxiety, I consider these pros and cons about why you should leave and other people shouldn’t move here.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: calexit; california
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Very interesting video by a millenial. She touches on California politics without getting political, and I don't think she ever says the word "liberal." But you get the point anyway.
1 posted on 08/24/2022 6:04:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom

Soon you’ll need special permission to leave California


2 posted on 08/24/2022 6:09:03 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Steely Tom

doorknob derriere


3 posted on 08/24/2022 6:10:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Here's the fantasy: That's Why I Came To California, sung by Leon Ware and Janis Siegel (of Manhattan Transfer).
4 posted on 08/24/2022 6:12:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: butlerweave

You can check out, but never leave….


5 posted on 08/24/2022 6:12:58 PM PDT by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: Steely Tom

” But with high taxes, expensive cost of living, and dwindling opportunity, there’s no longer any incentive to live here.”

But libtard politics, which causes “high taxes, expensive cost of living, and dwindling opportunity” is not one of the reasons why she is moving? (Disclaimer: I did not watch the YT video because of YT’s privacy policies) I get the impression that this is the type of person who relocates because of libtard policies, only to vote for libtards in her new abode.


6 posted on 08/24/2022 6:16:32 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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She looks Asian and may have run into too many black racists.


7 posted on 08/24/2022 6:17:35 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: butlerweave

Especially if you have any money.


8 posted on 08/24/2022 6:18:19 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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We left with nothing but the clothes on our backs. My wife and I and two teen girls in tow.

We had to basically live in a tent and cook over a fire. Best thing we have ever done as a clan...


9 posted on 08/24/2022 6:22:58 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Steely Tom

Don’t bother moving/ nobody cares.


10 posted on 08/24/2022 6:23:49 PM PDT by arizonarick
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To: butlerweave

“Soon you’ll need special permission to leave California.”

That’s not even a joke. Before we left in 2010 they were kicking around the idea of an “Exodus Tax”, and it was getting some interest in Sacramento.


11 posted on 08/24/2022 6:24:05 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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I didn’t see her mention of politics.

She’s going to keep voting the same wherever she goes.

Like most liberals she’s incapable of connecting dots.


12 posted on 08/24/2022 6:24:12 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Steely Tom

Florida, Texas and South Dakota.People are moving there in the tens of thousands.


13 posted on 08/24/2022 6:26:26 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Elon is bringing that many to Central Texas.


14 posted on 08/24/2022 6:32:12 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Murrill McLean Award, for cowardice by a Policeman, shooting of 12 lb. Mini-Dachshund. Danville, VA)
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To: Steely Tom

“...you can check out anytime you like, but you can NEVER leave!”


15 posted on 08/24/2022 6:35:47 PM PDT by JJBookman (Roach-tel California )
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I love it when reality impinges on ideologues.


16 posted on 08/24/2022 6:36:16 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: JJBookman

I checked out when I was six years old, more than sixty years ago, and Los Angeles is still a warm, sweet memory for me today. Even though what I experienced is long, long gone.


17 posted on 08/24/2022 6:37:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: datura

In 2019 I left California, crossed the Colorado River over the bridge into Yuma Arizona and the first song that played was Hotel California.


18 posted on 08/24/2022 6:39:29 PM PDT by Jolla
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That was possible in the year that song came out, 1982.

Now it’s 2022 and the new song for it is…*and it’s again Manhattan Transfer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EVm6ZEQt71c


19 posted on 08/24/2022 6:40:56 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Openurmind

Good for you! Most don’t have the guts/_____, to do something like that.

How long ago was this?

Are you still living in the tent? What part of the country?


20 posted on 08/24/2022 6:41:30 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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