Posted on 07/15/2020 8:06:29 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
California is dying, I spoke with a good friend of ours who lives in Southern California for over thirty years and used to love it. However, she now says she is lonely and alone except for some true long time friends. Her grown two boys have moved from California into Arizona with the families, so her grand kids are many miles away!!! She does not believe a word the present governor utters and ditto for that fool Mayor of Los Angeles and other Mayors throughout California. Small businesses are dying, if not dead already. And she feels locked in and confined to her home for a reason no one has yet to give her that is Meaningful & True!!! She hates the Democrat Party, declaring, these low life buffoons have killed this great state!!!
As for New York, it's quite simple, even Democrats will grasp this and understand. New York City is dead....Cuomo & De Blasio have total killed the life of Broadway, no theater, no Radio City Music Hall, No tourists, hotels are empty, restaurants in midtown Manhattan have few customers, Chintown has died and so has Little Italy, The once great New York City Subway system has few passengers because of crime & it is the home for the homeless!!! The Governor & the Mayor have also killed the NYC Police Force, once the best police force in the entire world. I could go on & on, because life in the boroughs of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island & Queens in not safe, good or productive either and people with money are packing and leaving the city for Texas, Florida and other Southern states by the tens of thousands. The city has lost its magic, heart and soul and Mo Jo from two power hungry men that are more like Satan himself. SAD!!!
there is one hope for California & New York, although I think we will never see it happen. And that hope is that the voters of these two states politically destroy the entire Democrat Party. If not, you will some day only be reading what New York and California were like,because they will not exist as they once did!!! Your choice folks!!!
California will turn into a blood bath as soon as the purge morons go too far. Allot of people will get killed and the state will go conservative again. People can see Newsom is a blathering idiot.
I’ve lived in the Phoenix area for my entire life. Summer temperatures above 115 degrees are not uncommon. Most buildings have air conditioning.
50 years ago swamp cooling worked just fine here because there was so much agriculture in the Phoenix area; the overnight temperatures would actually cool off to the 70’s. Now everything is covered with cement, asphalt, and residential “desert” (rock) landscaping. It doesn’t cool off at night anymore during the summer months.
June through the end of September is miserable, but the weather during the rest of the year is FABULOUS.
This was just before IBM pcs arrived, Wang being a big player in stand alone word processing at the time.
Funny that with all of the systems and narket analyists they never saw that coming.
I was born five days before D-Day, just five miles or so South of the North Carolina line and fifty miles or so South of Charlotte. I spent my summers walking behind a plow regardless of how hot it was until I joined the Navy just before turning eighteen and went to San Diego in June for boot camp. San Diego was a refrigerator compared to home.
I frigging HATE humidity as well.
We got no choice...either deal with it or move to Nevada, Arizona etc..
ugh...nothing against those states it’s like we have a choice between brown and dry or lush and moist.
I want lush and dry..
just can’t win....
Don’t reply with the word “California”...not gonna happen.
I’m used to it, it’s the long winters and mud that suck.
We didn’t get AC until I was 11 or 12, we thought we had died and gone to heaven and like you we didn’t get to sit out chores because of the heat. Dad gave us a list of things he wanted done before he left for work. His rule was I don’t care when you do it, but it better be done before I get home and then would suggest the mornings before the heat of the day set in. Sometimes we listened sometimes we didn’t and paid the price doing it in the heat and if it wasn’t done he would wear our behinds out with a switch!
We had a push plow and a small gas tiller for the garden(s) we had to plow ours and our great grandparents next door, help plant, cover, weed and harvest. Throw in cutting almost 4 acres of grass with 2-3 push mowers and we were kept busy in the summer! Then came Dad’s special projects, hand digging 150 yards for a water line-twice, cleaning the fence row twice a year, bringing in coal and keeping the fire going in the winter. This was in addition to our in the house chores such as dish washing, making beds, cleaning whatever needed done, for all this we got .50 cents each a week. Heck I remember my senior year in high school it was Labor Day and we had just moved into a new house and I was wondering what was Dad’s big job for the day. We didn’t celebrate with cookouts we did home projects on holidays in the summer. I was shocked and quite happy when he said, boys we are not doing a thing today, rest, shocked us be we were quite happy!
“A FB car friend of mine lives in burough of Flushing. About 80% immigrants now. Place is filthy, litter everywhere. Crime through the roof. No one takes care of their homes anymore.”
Flushing is a large neighborhood... not a borough (it’s in Queens). Using the municipal nomenclature of New York, it would have been a “Town” in the County of Queens before it was incorporated into NYC.
It’s been overwhelmingly Chinese (later Korean + Chinese) for as long as I have been around (I am just north of 40). The core near Main Street looks similar to Chinatown in Manhattan and many of the streets are just as cluttered and dirty. Once you move beyond that area into Bayside and beyond, there are plenty of well-kept single family homes.
South of Flushing is Corona, which has been a s**thole for just as long, and has a lot of crime... more than Flushing (proper). The only difference is that the residents are 80% Central-American immigrants, legal and illegal. I only go over there for the Hall of Science and for one of the few remaining “white tablecloth” italian restaurants in the area - Park Side.
To your point, it’s not what the rest of America is like and no one should liver there if you don’t have to. Your friend should move.
MJ
Tompkins County Legislature preparing law allowing it to override property tax cap
God help taxpayers.
I would imagine that it’s designed to be a back-handed tax increase to Cornell (which is based in Ithaca, and most of their staff live there). Cornell the institution likely pays some sort of PILOT but a property tax increase would disproportionately affect their employees who live there.. putting pressure on the school for (salary) raises.
Still disgusting, though.
Where did you end up?
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