Posted on 09/26/2018 8:40:41 PM PDT by CatOwner
With the sale of our house now pending, we are less than 30 days away from leaving California. Both my wife and I have lived our entire lives in California. With our retirement last year and our only child living in another state for the past two years, it was time to leave.
Wait until Gavin takes over!
5 years ago I moved from MD to FL (No tax state), same job just relocated. My paycheck went up $250 or $500 month. A real wake up call for me as MD was sticking me for $6000 a year just in taxes.
Income and sales high in cal. Very high. Property fixed at about 1.18 % of value when purchased. If you stay in house it can only go up very small increments controlled by something called prop 13 since 1978 when it was 1%. County reappraised when u sell usually based on sale price
Not only that, but the residents here have no problem passing any proposition that raises taxes at any time. Same with California. The vehicle registration fee for our 3 year-old vehicle this summer was higher than it was when purchased new.
I’ve been to Virginia. Several times on business. I am certain my wife and I would make the state redder. Whatever. I get the anti-CA biases.
I moved her from Maryland 29 years ago. The attitude towards Interlopers hasn’t changed. We welcome you with open arms. Don’t forget your ID when you vote.
We left in 2005. Life is so much sweeter now. I’m even getting used to the humidity here in Florida. We would never return to live in CA. Our votes never counted out there anyway.
Me too, and my Wife has pointed that out more than a few times.
I watch Beachfront Bargain Hunt, she watches The Weather Channel.
Oh well.
I was not referring to Freepers, I was referring to people fleeing California to states like my Colorado and then voting for liberal politicians to turn their new state into places like the California they fled.
I’m in Marin
But we always go to walleys in Genoa NV just down from south lake
I live in Ventura Country,just north of Los Angeles,I very rarely leave Oxnard.
Otherwise,the area is quite crowded with a lot of transients living in the streets.
Traffic is insane.
LOL! So many stories about my wife and I attempting to show ID at our CA precinct, only to be given a stern lecture about putting the ID away. You're damn right I am going to show my ID when I vote.
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Yep!
There are huge mansions on Hudson St. in OKC selling for what a chicken coop goes for in Los Gatos.
Oh, I posted from experience.
Yes, they suck. They are ruining several states from Washington to Montana.
Yes...Dallas/Ft Worth has humidity ALMOST as bad as Houston area.
We have spent time in FW and like the area around the college campus....and, the shops/restaurants on Magnolia (??).
We also spend quite a bit of time near New Braunfels. It gets hot there, too.
But...we had an 80º weather, today, so it was GLORIOUS!!
Have you been hit with the California Exit Tax, too?
Don’t bet the farm on California’s property tax caps. Residential properties are reassessed and taxed at the new value of every time the property is sold or refinanced. And in California, people refinance every chance they get.
Now the voters are poised to repeal the part of Prop 13 that covers businesses. The measure will pass easily, of this I have no doubt. Californians love to vote for anything really stupid. And, the courts will leave it completely alone.
The courts never hesitate for a moment to overturn ballot measures that people actually want, for example, Prop 187, (59-41%) which would have barred illegals from receiving taxpayer funded benefits. That lasted about five minutes.
It’s no great leap to understand that repealing Prop 13 for businesses is just foaming the runway for taking it away from homeowners.
The results would be devastating. Quite likely the legislature would mandate an immediate reassessment of all residential properties, otherwise, what’s the point? Senior citizens could be crushed. Many of them bought their homes in the 1960s-70 and paid prices like $30K for them and they now own them free and clear. These are people who worked and saved all of their lives to ensure they would be secure in their golden years.
But, alas. That’s a population that typically votes Republican, so no mercy.
In my area (about a dozen miles west of NYC) new constructions are geared towards worker hives with no space for children. If young people are going to buy here, they aren’t going to have any children - and if their salaries go too high, they’ll be laid off and replaced with the Asians they’re trafficking here en masse as replacement white collar Americans. What happened in tech has happened in the financial sector as well.
Silicon Valley has a problem where anyone who isn’t a 1%er that works there (public employees, restaurant workers, etc.) have to drive over an hour one way to get to work.
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