Posted on 07/08/2018 6:48:45 AM PDT by rktman
“It’s now illegal in California to shower and do laundry on the same day,” my husband read out loud to me a few weeks ago.
“How are they going to police that?” I wondered.
“It doesn’t matter,” he replied. “California is so out of touch with reality that it just doesn’t matter anymore.”
It saddens me to watch my former home state implode, but that’s precisely what is happening. California has been called the world’s largest insane asylum, and as headline piles upon headline illustrating the latest madness, the description seems apt.
It’s no wonder people are fleeing the Golden State in droves. What is the incentive to stay when taxes are sky-high, regulations are draconian and capricious, crime is rampant, infrastructure is crumbling, and politicians are so out of touch with reality they think they can make it illegal to shower and do laundry on the same day?
Housing prices, of course, are famously irrational. In Sunnyvale, a modest 848-square-foot home on a tiny lot gained national notoriety for its selling price. “After being listed in March for $1.45 million, it sold within 48 hours for $2 million, or $2,358 per square foot,” noted ZeroHedge. “With Sunnyvale’s 1.25 percent property tax, the new owners are paying $2,083 per month, or $250,000 every 10 years.”
It’s more than just the insane cost of living in the state. Many people are also fleeing the insane policies. Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel (a co-founder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor) says it’s one thing for a culture to be “quite liberal” and another for it to be “totalitarian.” Dissenting opinions are not permitted. If you don’t believe me, walk onto any California college campus with a MAGA hat and see how long you last.
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“all I can do is laugh at the fools who live in CALI”
You mean, like Jim Robinson the founder of this site?
Or the hundreds of other conservatives on this site that live in CA?
Are those the fools you’re referring to?
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And water meters do not reord any daily data.
In most areas they are read every two months.
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“California’s progressive government lives off debt and printed money only.”
Not so. All debt payments are current and no state can print money.
CA has a budget of over $200 billion with a $10bil+ SURPLUS. There are over 10 million privately owned single family dwellings.
How’s your state doing?
“How can anyone afford to live and eat with rates like this?”
Income.
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CA will continue to be almost 60% of the US economy.
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“We are seeing Venezuala and Central Amrica within our own borders. “
Except CA is the richest state in the union, by far. With the fastest growth rate.
I hear ya. The heat is tough....especially combined with the humidity (the further East/South East) that you go.
We have a YUGE sign, just west of El Paso that tells Californian’s to turn around, if they are libs and support policies of Gov Moonbeam (or, if they are likely to become, or have been, mass murderers). :-)
I wish there were enough conservatives to take CA back.
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Bridgeport sits at the foot of Sonora Pass.
Its a long drive to anywhere from Bridgeport, so everything is expensive there.
The Mexican invasion, bad politics, and ridiculous cost of living is what pushed me out in 2000. It has only gotten (much) worse since then. I think 1991 was the turning point or peak point for CA. Ever since then it has been on a downward trend. Such a shame too. Great weather and geography but that doesn’t offset the demographics and leftist trend.
I remember hearing California passed 1000 new laws every single year. Crazy!
Many don't and reach a breaking point. That's why tens of hundreds of thousands of middle class in CA have left. And most of those are being replaced by foreign nationals with big $. Who else can pay 600k 700k++ and up, for a 55 year old track home. Honest realtors will readily admit this.
Have you actually met any Californians? The idiots who vote for the socialist are either so well off that they do not care or they not well off and are welded to the welfare teat which they wish to continue.
Have you actually met any Californians? The idiots who vote for the socialist are either so well off that they do not care or they not well off and are welded to the welfare teat which they wish to continue.
I would support giving California to MEXICO!! Let THEM deal with all this CRAP!
I don’t think so. Ohio has 12 million people.
“No but there is a law that limits you to no more than 55 gals per day.”
You are uninformed...actually, misinformed.
Very cynical, my FRiend.
(One worries, however, that it all might come completely true.)
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Colorado and Nevada being two glaring examples. The Colorado of a dozen years ago is gone with the wind.
$2.84, two loads of laundry and three showers and I’m “baching” this week.
And compound this by total lack of affordability for what's left of the middle class in CA who are bailing...That don't bode well for any relief from the extreme controlling left in the state. Very unfortunate.
“They’re outnumbered about 3-1”
Actually it’s 3-2. Most of that due to illegal voters.
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