Posted on 05/17/2009 8:14:38 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
Across the nation, unemployment is sky-high, the housing market is sucking wind and recessionary fears have frozen Americans in place.
Just don’t tell that to a stream of new residents who are "voting with their feet" that Texas is the safest place to ride out the storm and the place to be when the economy recovers.
Even in the midst of a recession, economists, demographers and relocation experts believe the Lone Star State is on the cusp of becoming The New California.
Or maybe it already is.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
I hope not.
Houses in my hood here in n Dallas/Plano is selling very well. Two homes sold this week after being up for sale for only a few days.
There was a 3.3 earthquake on Saturday, between Ft. Worth and Dallas, TX......so yes, I guess we are becoming more and more like CA in more ways than one.
Same pattern with many immigrants.
Oh crap, here we go again. Texas just ain’t what it used to be.
Now there's a scary thought.
Says a lot about your hood!!!
Yep. I don’t know that I would say that Washington was ever a conservative state, but it has gotten insanely liberal in the past 20 years.
Stay the hell out of Tx
NEW forclosures 2008 vs Mar 2009 342,038
Market sure is Going gang busters!!! LOL
We moved to Texas for a job, but my hometown in Kansas has lower unemployment than here.
Still very good here in West Texas, but it’s all about oil (though not my job, one of the few not working in the industry). Back home, even my small town had a massive base of a variety of industries. Then again, it is one of the few places like that.
oh crap now all the liberals are going to try to turn texas blue...
its getting closer because of immigration....just horrible
We've had the throngs descend before, some of 'em left when the Texas economy, then based much more heavily on Oil, went into the tank. But, for the most part they became Texans. I guess I'm one of those, except that I came because it was the closest place to "home" where I could find a creating stuff to kill the enemies of the US, not because I lost a job "back home". Besides, Nebraska isn't that much different, outside of Omaha (think Houston or Dallas) and Lincoln, (think Austin, only less so)
The Libtards will flee back to the "good weather" when the economy improves there, the new Texans will stay and make Texas stronger.
Texas has taken some hits but the economic indicators for the state seem to be on the positive side as a whole. Major industrial expansions in some of the petro/chem locations have slowed or scaled back but are still ongoing. Texas will do well over the long run and probably not see as deep of an economic downturn as a lot of the county may experience.
I think some of the libs set out to intentionally ruin the positive qualities of a red state so there won't be anywhere to escape.
I sit on the city sustainability task force in Fort Worth and am fighting the libtards with all my might. They have all but said "Austin and Denver and everywhere else is doing this and people and business leave... we need to do it here so those people won't have a place that doesn't live under the same rules"
:-)
Why do folks who come from these places that have gone bad (usually due to politics) want to move somewhere else and vote in the same politics that they fled from?
Beats me!
Yeah, I first encountered the pattern back in New Hampshire in the late 80s. People fleeing from MA madness and then trying to recreate the same mess there. I moved away long ago, but saw the handwriting on the wall even then. From the news, it appears they finally succeeded in turning it into a blue state. Sad.
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