11. Tell them your income (often lower than Californians'), but don't tell them how low the cost of living is in your area.
12. Tell them you love football, pause a few seconds, then follow it with how much you hate soccer.
13. Tell them how many kids you have.
I moved from California to Reno. Please don’t tell anyone else from California but Reno is really a nice place to live. I could do without all the homeless bums but it is far less than California where they are going to spend millions to build tiny homes to reward the bums.
I find that most blue state escapees are leaving because liberal policies have made living there intolerable and want nothing to do with the state they left.
I live in one of those big square states in the middle of the country. I see more CA plates than I do plates from adjacent states. This is odd as I expect the former would have to change plates within 30 days more often than the latter. Thanks be to God there is florida and Texas to sop up the bulk of the CA people fleeing.
>7. Point out how many houses in town have American flags: Once they notice this little detail, they will react like vampires to the sun coming up at dawn.
I find when canvassing for political campaigns that a house flying an American flag is about a 95% certain indicator that the homeowner is a Republican.
Most of the people leaving California for red states seem to be conservative. Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said when California (a red or at least purple state back then) was invaded by Northeastern liberals in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Tell them that California IRS agents are paying their neighbors to verify whether they are actually residing out of CA.
Remind them June 3 is the anniversary of Jefferson Davis’ birth.
“What’s a “tesla charger?”
these houses have skyrocketed in price and they're bought up by californias who retire on their lavish pensions....
so do I care if I continue my practice of hanging clothes on racks outside, or shirts or hangers outside?...or that I have a big garden and sometimes I carry a whole bunch of produce in my shirt pulled up in front?.....no.
There’s a funny series on YouTube: California Moves to Texas.
Worth a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDWzN6TW5Y
LOL - “Smile and wave at them: Californians hate this! They might even be killed in the process.”
I used to do this one in DC. When my bestie was single, she had a condo in DC, near Embassy Row. When I would visit from Texas, we’d go strolling around the neighborhood sometimes. As we walked past locals, I took a devilish delight in looking them in the eye, smiling and warmly greeting them. It almost always freaked them out. They’d frequently avert their eyes and nervously stammer out a response.
Put a Gadsden flag in front of your house. Or the Stars and Bars. Or both.
8a. They won't quite understand why you lay in several cords of wood and why you're out there splitting and stacking. They'll look on in horror when you show them the wood stove that heats your house.
Great ideas, but sadly this won’t work for New Yorkers this side of the Mississippi - their only response would be a fist-fight, (most folk don’t have the heart to shoot a new neighbor...)
“Ask them where they are going to church immediately after meeting them for the first time”
Ha! When we moved to TN, that happened every single time people learned we were new in the area. When the grocery store checkout clerk did that I told Hubby that if a clerk had done that in CA where we moved from, she’d have been fired.
I’d CA 7s so lefty, why does Deep State have to steal its elections?
Or do you think that going all mail-in and banning hand counting of ballots was just done for fun...
Offer to give them a tour of town in your SUV.
Be sure to fill up with gas and comment how high gas has gotten and that you can’t believe it’s almost $3.
Stop off to get groceries and tell them they don’t need to bring their own bag.
Get some extra plastic bags at the checkout.
Take them swimming at the local swimming hole. Tell them to watch out for snakes.
Give them some mosquito repellent with DEET.
(We happily escaped California 3 years ago for Arkansas)