I currently live in Pittsburgh, PA, where I imagine things are similar to Massachusetts. We have great univerisites, glum people, cold winters, an aging population and nothing but gloom to offer people.
I don't know if there's anything politicians can do about areas like this. Living here is, well, glum and depressing.
Living down south, where the roads were built to handle the traffic, where the sun shines brightly and people are building new stuff all over the place, is so much more enjoyable and less depressing.
The Northeast is such a depressing place by comparison, I don't understand why there are people left there.
Why live in expensive gloom if you don't have to?
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(I was born and bred in Massachusetts, lived in California for 20 years, in Pittsburgh for two and hope to move down south soon. Trust me, it's better in the less gloomy states. If California weren't so horribly expensive, i would still be there.)
All I got to say is I hope they don't bring their socialism with them. And we Alabamians don't like being told "Well that's how we did it up North."
If they come down for the conservative values, that's great, y'all are welcome and wanted. But please, no Kerry/Kennedy lovers!
Try Oregon, similar weather to CA, yes we are a blue state but only the north west of the state, the rest of the state is red. I am in southern Oregon, about an hour and a half from the CA border. Close to the famous Oregon coast in Roseburg.
Most everybody is conservative, low property taxes, low real estate prices, low cost of living. You can still buy a house for less than $200K, with $1300 a year taxes. Not too hot in the summer and not too cold in the winter, it snows once a year for a day and we only we get about 32" of rain a year. No traffic, no mexicans, no long lines at the stores.