Posted on 09/23/2020 5:28:20 AM PDT by ShadowAce
What it’s like living in California now is a little bit significantly different than seven months ago. California, now officially the world’s largest prison has the industries of homelessness and lockdowns to bolster its economy. Along with the highest tax rate in the nation, businesses being shutdown is another fantastic strategy that’s sure to improve the economy. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Garcetti, and Nancy Pelosi are spear heading the charge to help make California the zombie apocalypse capital of the world.
There is another winter coming and I hate winter....
Possibly the intention is for the San Andreas Fault to finally snap, thereby allowing California to float out beyond the territorial limits of the United States.
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More likely float as far as the piles of shit will take it, and on the eve of the declaration of independent nation, hoards of people will crowd Sacramento causing an imbalance, flipping the state, and the weight of collective white guilt sink it.
Thus the legend of the fantastical land was born, but no one believes it today - wishful thinking, religious propaganda, myth, and misrepresentation are some of the reasons why such a land could never have existed leading archeologists claim.
And you’re retired, living solo?
Empty nest. Hating winter.
Me too. Move to Texas.
Correct. That was Prop 13, passed in the late 1970s.
There is now a Prop 15 on the ballot that is trying to eliminate the Prop 13 protections for commercial real estate, which would tax the property based on current value, not on the purchase price. Imagine how many more businesses would go under if that passed.
NO ON PROP. 15!!
Been there, done that.
I doubt it would be worth it. And whether you care about schools and other BS or not, CA is still going to ding you for it, six ways from Sunday.
A lot of California is physically beautiful.
Yosemite and Tahoe are real pretty.
I grew up in San Jose in the late 70;s thru mid 80’s.
I wouldn’t live there now though.
Let say I can get a nice place in the CA countryside for 50 cents on the dollar. Would it be worth it? Has the low balling started? I am past worrying about schools and all of the BS.
If you’re OK with the highest state sales taxes in the nation, onerous regulations on every little thing, highest gas prices - which means high food prices, high property taxes and a government that is pro-illegal immigrant and lets criminals out in droves to prey on innocent citizens.
Then yeah, California is a great place to live.
Property taxes here are absolutely NOT reasonable.
I depends on the buy in level. If it crashes then I am in. I can be Jim’s neighbor. F winter. F humidity.
Move to Buffalo, NY a 4 bdrm 2000 sq ft house on a half acre gould be had for less than $300K.
Four beautiful seasons.
It is NOT a frozen tundra. It is almost October and I still go swimming (although I will probably close my pool this week or next) and the leaves have just barely started to change color. Time to head to Letchworth state park for beautiful fall foliage and picnic in all the color.
Then Winter with horse-pulled sleigh’s and hot cholocate after snow skiing.
Nevermind about February though... Take a vacation down south in February.
Thanks. I will think about that when I am scrapping ice off my windshield.
PS: If you buy online I think CA waves the tax. I could be wrong.
My family just sold a home in California - in one day. We had six showings the first day, next day we had four offers, one in cash - for $1.5 million. House is a wreck and was sold "as is" - so it looks like property is still extremely valuable here.
Homes in my old post-WW II neighborhood, around 14-1600 square feet are going in the $1 million dollar range. Home next door had a bidding war going and the price was jacked up (this was last year, my neighbor across the street fought off 14 people to buy her home.
We are outside of Los Angeles with our own power grid, police dept. and school system.
People still want to live here, it seems...(although a lot of the buyers are foreign).
LOL, my dad said the exact same thing when he moved here - in the 50's - and never looked back. His dying wish was to be buried in California and not his home state of Indiana.
I'm glad he's not here to see what has happened to the Golden State - now the "Beholden State" - ruined by the likes of Gerry Brown and other progressives who turned the state deep blue.
Still, there are a lot of beautiful, unspoiled places here and my relatives from back East start reserving our home for their summer vacations around Christmas every year - house is full of people all summer long that can't get enough of California.
Just be prepared if you come here, that's all.
Florida is warm, no state tax, plenty of Republicans(depending on where), but has plenty of humidity.
Pretty much never freezing, but has the occasional hurricane.
FloriDUH is is a sticky sweat box with bird like mosquitoes. No thanks.
Good luck in your search.
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