Posted on 12/01/2005 4:27:07 PM PST by Dan Nunn
We must act now to stop the scourge of outsourcing jobs from California. California must impose punitive tariffs on all Japanese imports from Tennessee right away.
Good. Never said they were.
From what I can glean:
One can sell a modest home in Kali for 500K to 1M. That money here will buy at least twice the home they left even though Nashville is the highest median home sale price in the SE.
San diego native here too. I left for good in the mid-90's and never plan to return. I live in Oklahoma now, while it is not the greatest, it is a great improvement for me and my family. I guess it just depends on what you consider important.
Until the lefties find a way to nationalize these businesses the private sector will seek to defund the black hole known as the public sector. Atlas does shrug.
And winter hasn't even started yet!
Every word of your post is the absolute, God's honest truth. (Except I've ridden the Orange line and it wasn't empty. One day we were packed in there like sardines.)
But yes, you speak the truth, whether "BunnySlippers" wants to believe you or not, and as a San Fernando Valley resident I can vouch for all of it.
I like 4 seasons...but I understand folks who like Med Weather.
I spent a majority of 80-96 in the tropics.
My favortite overall climate for steady comfort would be maybe Guatemala City or Medellin Colombia....80s in the day and 50s at night
No, that's not what that means. It means people pick their fights. That kinda goes along with individual freedoms and choice.
You have decided to stay and fight. So, find your like-minded neighbors in CA, and fight.
After reading this thread, it seems there are a lot of conservatives that would rather run, or move away from a fight than stick it out
It probably does look that way to you. Very understandable. But, I don't think that's true. I don't think people are moving out of CA just to avoid a "fight"; but rather other priorities have been considered. People generally "move" not because they are "avoiding a fight" but rather, they are pursuing better opportunities, or addressing more pressing needs.
I've never seen so many people that are willing to give up and run.
Run? Do you assume that everyone thinks like you? That what motivates them in life, is just like you?
I remember the early "exodus" of a number of my conservative pals out of CA. I was sad to see them go. Not a single one was leaving to avoid a "fight". Nor was "abandoning" the state foremost in their minds. They each saw better opportunities elsewhere. For themselves. For their families. For careers. For education. For Jobs. Etc.
Clearly, you don't not have either such a pressing need for opportunity or any other such motivation to leave the state of CA. Good! I'm glad for you.
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Opportunity?
Regardless and in spite of the politics here, CA is the largest economic engine in America. Bar none. There is no other place that offers more opportunity, or has more jobs to offer. One could only imagine, with better leaders, the potential of CA. That being said about the economy, I would never give up the weather here for anywhere else. The fact is, those that leave, or (run away) generally have done so due to the influx of those from Mexico. But unfortunately, that's everywhere now. Read the posts, listen to the radio talk shows. They tell the real story.
Sorry but people don't leave the largest economy in the country, to some place like Denver for "opportunity". Not hardly.
Regardless of where people live Alia, if they don't like what's going on, they must become involved. Otherwise, the only choice left is to run.
As long as they don't bring that Kali attitude with them and whine about school funding (has nothing to do with performance) or want to spend my tax dollars on a Franklin Symphony or demand gay marriage.
And if the can't handle some monuments to our brave Confederate dead then they are going to have me shoving their artichoke hearts up their...nevermind! ;-)
You are not factoring in the quality of life, the taxes, the regulations, the meddlesome politicians, etc.
Your definition of opportunity is narrow.
Hear Hear!
I donate to the private McGavock CSA Cemetary at Carnton myself....money well spent.
Why can't these idiots in the press get things right? If some business left, say, Houston and moved to Ventura, CA would they report, "Company moves to LA"? No.
Nissan IS NOT MOVING TO NASHVILLE! Get that you liberal moron journalists? NASHVILLE ISN'T THE ONLY CITY IN TENNESSEE you braindead jerks.
Yes, but aren't the industrial centers in upstate New York dying? Syracuse just lost Carrier Air Conditioning for instance.
I love LA myself, but the key is to live close to where you work, or work from home. I moved reluctantly to Orange County from a close in LA neighborhood for the money. Life is very pleasant, but I prefer the hustle and bustle of big cities.
Did you read they tore down the old Pizza Hut a block from Carter House? YIPPIE! Finally we are getting the land back.
Besides, they kindly moved to a newer digs at the new Target/Kroger center at Mack Hatcher and Columbia. Talk about huge. And there is almost no one there when I go shopping. Unlike the Wal-Mart at Cool Springs where it takes an hour just to find parking.
As things on Columbia start going away (like the factories that are now mostly empty) we need to reclaim more land to preserve if we can. But even I'm a hypocrite. My apartment sits just north of the Harpeth (near the Peoples Church across from the Franklin YMCA at Mack Hatcher and South Royal Oaks) and we had a small garrison that was staged here. But then again about every piece of land around us was part of the battle.
The wife and I visited Chattanooga recently (believe it or not we'd never been there) and I was surprised about how much I didn't know that the battle their lead almost directly to the ones here in Franklin and Nashville. I never got too detailed in the Civil War beyond battle site here, one there, etc. It was very interesting.
And, yes, I saw Rock City! lol Good to hear from you again. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
The economics of LA (the city) dictate that the place will become more and more a place of the well to do, and those that service them, and folks without school aged children. Nothing really can stop that train. Even the garmet industry sweat shops will slowly disappear. Illegals get higher wages than those in China do, much higher.
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