[KC Burke]

When I have to cross into CA from AZ I always make sure I have a full tank.

Over a twenty gallon tank it saves $30 — simply amazing what the California residents allow.

I have a family member over there. He pays a water bill which works out to between $400 and $550 a month for a 2600 SF house, small yard, two people, no pool. JUST WATER.

I pay about a tenth of that and I have a pool. A pool in AZ eats water. They have those big salaries in the Bay area and the LA basin and they fool themselves they make a lot of money. Their mortgages, taxes and cost of everything makes it all artificial.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “ They have those big salaries in the Bay area and the LA basin and they fool themselves they make a lot of money. Their mortgages, taxes and cost of everything makes it all artificial.” <<

I have to agree, but I beat it by not moving very often.

Houses in our neighborhood sell for 20 times what I paid for ours in 1983.
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