[artichokegrower]

This city’s Spanish name recalls grassy, spring-fed meadows that nourished the first farms here and gave laborers relief from desert heat.

Now Las Vegas draws a new generation of settlers epitomized by California transplant Joe Beck: CalPERS pensioners who have made Sin City their No. 1 destination for retirement outside California.

If we makers would all flee California and just leave the takers your outrageous state pension and life time medical benefits wouldn't be worth a bag full of dog doo.

[freedumb2003]

I moved to Dallas 4 years ago!

I miss the weather and Disneyland and the like.

But I am reading California’s fiscal revival is smoke and mirrors and they will be upping the taxes AGAIN next year to pay for — wait for it — CalPERS!

I have 15 years in CalPERS and I am more than willing to let them buy me out.

[ThomasThomas]

Since the incomes from inside California the will pay the California Income tax. Let them go.

[freedumb2003]

>>If we makers would all flee California and just leave the takers <<

My time as a California State employee produced more value than you can ever imagine.

When I left they had to employ 4 people to replace me.

[umgud]

My dad retired from Lockheed, went to Reno. He’s a happy camper.

[Secret Agent Man]

I think public employees who voted for decades to get their bennies and the state of the state to where it is, need to have taxes taken out of their retirement plans in the state they worked in, if they then flee the state to avoid the mess they’ve helped to make and forced everyone else to live under.

[catnipman]

“Why CalPERS retirees flee California”

Because they can?

[Seaplaner]

The premise of the article is misleading.

It's not just CalPers retirees who are fleeing Cali.

It's a large fraction of the productive class.

Rather thank whining or being vindictive, Cali should focus on being a less toxic environment to those who work (or are retired from work) and don't like what's happening in the once-golden state.

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[Windflier]

If we makers would all flee California and just leave the takers

I relocated my business and my family from SoCal to North Texas almost ten years ago. Best damn move I ever made.

The only thing I miss, is the land itself.

[yadent]

Um, the takers are taking and the givers are still giving...who is exactly the STUPID ones here???

[onedoug]

...ping....

[TexasGator]

“Logan said he has tickets to see Neil Diamond “

This guy has too much time on his hands ...