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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Yikes....how are all of those taxes and high cost of living working for you? State, property, etc.?
TX has high property taxes, and NO state tax.
I’ve lost count of how many California license plates I’ve seen, in TX, over the past year.
These folks evidently don’t mind the weather, for the lower cost of living and NO HOMELESS CAMPS addled with used needles and poop, lining the sidewalks.
Hopefully, you are in an area away from all of these disasters (LA/SanFranFreako) and where a good living can keep you comfortable there.
Not zero. The state could be split. Not likely, but it could happen. Getting rid of SF and LA, not happening. Ever.
But the State Legislature just passed a law mandating that individual water consumption be limited to 55 gallons per day starting in, I believe, 2020. The comment just points to the fact that with that constraint, you won't legally be able to bathe and do laundry the same day and stay within that limitation. What I am wondering, is what about outside watering. In the summer, we use more than 500 gallons per day keeping up our landscaping. Here, you can go to the sewage treatment plant ( 18 miles distant) and get “free” recycled water. Water is heavy. I have a 300 gallon tank I bought, but never used during the drought. Full, it weighs about 2400 lb, which is more than double the carrying capacity of my utility trailer. But I see people using a setup like I have, with their tires ready to pop. Then you have to add in the cost of transportation. Thirty-six miles at $.50/ mile is $18 for 300 gallons. Even with the usurious water rates, it's still cheaper to pay the water company than to go get it.
California can't print money.
And prop 13 is only great for those who've lived in their homes for a long long time. The poor souls who are trying to buy now? They're getting economically gang raped paying 10x property taxes what their neighbor is.
Why so defensive? All I said is I’m not a fan of Texas. There are a lot of other states that I don’t care for. Is it a requirement that everyone love Texas?
“You’re a voice of reason not crying in the wilderness, but shouting to be heard over the roar of the crowd.”
Yes, and it makes me wonder about any number of “conservatives” here on FR. Any time anything relating to California comes up, how they start all the bull$hit about
“letting Commiefornia go!” They are showing their lack of intelligence. And when you look at where the money comes from to support FreeRepublic, the #1 donor, is California!
All of what’s wrong here can be laid at the feet of Jerry Brown, who is a mental defective, that we have allowed to be our governor for a total of 16 years. When you add in the 8 years his worthless father was governor, and the four years his former Chief of Staff, Gray Davis (the one we voted out of office), it all has to be laid at his feet. Don’t get me going about that worthless a$$hole Arnold Schickelgrubber, who’s only “act” was to knock out a kid with his Mexican maid.
California will collapse the day President Trump sends ICE to do Mass Roundups and Deportations of the 10 Million plus Illegal Aliens in this godforsaken State..
The law doesn't have to specifically say you can't shower or wash clothes on the same day to make it so.
I think it was a ‘suggestion’.
“RE has already imploded in CA for many who can’t even afford a basic run of the mill tract home.”
That is not true! We drove to Milpitas from our home in Danville yesterday to attend a funeral for a friend. Since I no longer commute to San Jose for work, I was shocked at the building of apartment complexes along I 680 from Dublin all the way to Milpitas.
“And prop 13 is only great for those who’ve lived in their homes for a long long time. The poor souls who are trying to buy now? They’re getting economically gang raped paying 10x property taxes what their neighbor is.”
Well, while that’s true, it surely doesn’t seem to have any effect on home sales here. The home across the private road on which we live, sold two years ago for $2.1 million (which probably has a property tax bill of $24,000 per year attached). It was sold to a young couple from San Jose who have very young children. And they are pouring money into redoing all their landscaping. BTW, their property taxes are about 3x what we pay, not 10x, and we’ve been here for 35 years.
Splitting the state will simply never happen. The rest of the country won’t allow it even if we wanted to.
California produced around 4.5 million Trump voters
which was more than all but two states.
When I started voting in California the state was
reliably GOP. A large part of the ‘Caliproblem’ is
not homegrown.
To be able to take random shots at a state without
having to expose our own vulnerabilities is a pretty
cool feature here at FR.
Gavin Newsomw is about to be elected Governor with 60 to 70 percent of the vote and Xavier Becarra is about to be re-elected Attorney General with about the same amount of the vote. The two combined will send this state into depths no state has ever known. While Trump makes America great again, California will be woefully left behind. It will truly be fourth world here. Maybe then people here will wake up...maybe.
That is not true! We drove to Milpitas from our home in Danville yesterday to attend a funeral for a friend. Since I no longer commute to San Jose for work, I was shocked at the building of apartment complexes along I 680 from Dublin all the way to Milpitas.
Those are civilian worker barracks...lol...I'm talking houses, homes...You know, traditional single family homes. Not stinking apartment barracks which rent are also waaaay over priced. This below is 100 % true!
>>> RE has already imploded in CA for many who can't even afford a basic run of the mill track home. In fact that's why a good percentage are leaving the state. It's why most young people don't even bother anymore trying to someday buy a home. Not happening for most of them. It's why so many of these properties are being sold to foreign nationals with big $.<<<
As i wrote in my post 77, the new regulations target water districts, not individuals. And they require an average per person daily usage, not that any one person cannot exceed the number on any given day.
“Is it a requirement that everyone love Texas?”
Yes...Yes, it is.
Be stinky and sell one's daily water allotment to a neighbor.
I was merely stating facts.
Since when did facts become defensive?
Just honestly curious about the CA situation.
It doesn’t bother me that you are not a ‘fan of TX’.
Thanks.
I have a huge dose of Schadenfreude from the California crisis. The state seems over populated by a combination of snotty, condescending pricks and thug violence hate America foreigners. Now, I know there are a lot of people who are nice Middle America type conservative hard working people, but those who have not fled to Texas have sunk to invisibility in the last decade. So, there you have it. My bias on display. Chip on shoulder revealed.
And, factoid, there are more obese people in CA than the entire population of Ohio.
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