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Democrats have turned the once Golden State into a sh*thole
Canada Free Press ^ | 01/15/18 | Katy Grimes

Posted on 01/15/2018 9:29:02 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

California's Economic Forecast is Dismal

Despite so-called “progressives” promising their policies will create a Soviet-style worker’s paradise, California’s leftist Democrats have turned the once Golden State into a sh*thole through decades of leftist policies penalizing and demonizing employers, businesses, property owners, innovators, entrepreneurs—and really, anyone who wants to work hard and get ahead. These hard working people are responding by fleeing liberal California for conservative red states.

The perception across America is that California is the state people are leaving. And that perception is accurate.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: brown; california; economicforecast; trump
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To: Windflier

Have you been up there? Most are much bigger, but more pricy. Closest neighborhood to Montecito in SoCal might be some of the more country hoods on the Palos Verdes peninsula. Lots of trees, ocean breeze, rural country feel (but fricken mansions all in that Mediterranean style).


61 posted on 01/16/2018 11:29:34 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Windflier
I worked about four Blocks South of The Pantry for years back in the mid 70’s.

We would have Breakfast there all the time. Always had an Omelet that was bigger than the Plate it was served on. That was when all the Waiters were grumpy old white guys. LOL Did you ever go to El Tepeyac in Boyle Heights and get a Hollenbeck Burrito? It was my first real Mexican Food. It even came with extra grease... Yummmmmmy!

62 posted on 01/16/2018 12:25:06 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Shithole".)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Did you ever go to El Tepeyac in Boyle Heights

No, but I can't count the number of mom and pop Mexican joints I ate at, and they were all good. A guy could eat well on just five bucks a day, eating at those places.

63 posted on 01/16/2018 5:27:23 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Yaelle
Have you been up there? Most are much bigger, but more pricy.

No, I haven't, but I don't care how beautiful the scenery is. I just can't think with such astronomical prices for such little real estate.

Here in Texas you can buy a 7,000 square foot mansion on ten acres, right outside Dallas, for $3 million. And that's in gorgeous, rolling countryside.

64 posted on 01/16/2018 5:38:13 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

When we visited an ex Angeleno friend in Rockwall, TX, we were told to look at such and such a mansion and told it cost $500K. Our chins dropped and hung down to our chests. The homes are so large and lovely. Also in Nashville, where I am interested in moving. How can you keep 5000 sq ft clean?? It sounds like a palace.


65 posted on 01/16/2018 11:22:55 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
We moved from L.A. to Rockwall, TX in 2005. The house we bought was 3,000 square feet on 1.5 acre. The price tag was $365K.

Our fifty year old house back home was 1,000 square feet, and sold for $395K. I almost felt ashamed accepting that offer. There's no way in hell that house was worth that.

66 posted on 01/17/2018 9:00:01 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Your old house is worth over $600k now for sure.

Check out your old neighborhoods here on realtor.com or trulia. It’s shocking, really. My dad bought his house in the 1960s for $20k and people thought that was too much. It’s worth $2m now (on an acre which is kind of rare in LA).


67 posted on 01/17/2018 11:14:28 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Windflier

By the way, Rockwall was gorgeous. My dearest friend who moved there had terminal cancer and has passed. Their house which to us was practically free had like 6 bedrooms and 3 levels, and wasn’t anywhere near one of the fancier homes.


68 posted on 01/17/2018 11:16:23 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

We still live in the area, but we’re now on the other side of the lake. Had to let the house in Rockwall go, as (at the time) it was too far outside the metro, which negatively impacted our business. We spent about five hears living in a more central location until we built the business back.

My wife and I will be shopping for our last house sometime next Spring, but not in Rockwall. I love the properties over there, but the property taxes in that county are some of the highest in the state, and the traffic congestion is nightmarish.

We’ll likely be looking for something in the $500K to $700K range on the west side of the lake. Homes in that range are appreciating about 20% a year right now, so we’ve got to hustle.

If it weren’t for the business, and the fact that our kids will likely be starting families in the next few years, we’d probably move even further out, where the house values are much lower.


69 posted on 01/17/2018 12:45:55 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Yaelle
Your old house is worth over $600k now for sure.

Oh, I know it is. That house appreciated another $100k within a year of us selling it. My family is working on selling my dad's 60s era rental house in San Jose, which he bought for about $25K in 1967. It will probably fetch $650K.

My uber lib brother owns a similar house in the area, and is sitting on several hundred thousand in equity, but he won't cash out and move to greener pastures. He's just welded in place, which is fine by me. I don't need him moving to Texas.

70 posted on 01/17/2018 1:14:53 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

No, you should stay close to the kids, if they are about to pop out some grand kids!


71 posted on 01/17/2018 9:15:31 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: windsorknot

“Proglodytes”

Oooh, I’m writing that down.


72 posted on 01/17/2018 9:25:27 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: mowowie

I love Katy Grimes. She is not only a good writer and has a great mind, she is a patriot, not a profiteer like so many “stars” in the conservative arena.


73 posted on 01/18/2018 5:09:04 AM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance, Ignorance masquerading as Intelligence)
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To: Dr. Ursus

They destroyed paradise and I hope they rot in hell for what they did!


I believe they will. Politics are actions on a larger than personal scale. Judgement, and its punishments and rewards, should, in a perfect universe, be enlarged as well.


74 posted on 01/18/2018 5:26:27 AM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance, Ignorance masquerading as Intelligence)
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To: Yaelle
No, you should stay close to the kids, if they are about to pop out some grand kids!

Yep. much as we'd like to move to a more rural area, we're gonna stay close by for the grand kids to come.

75 posted on 01/18/2018 9:07:49 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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