Posted on 11/05/2022 3:07:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
On a late summer evening, friends of John Stettin gathered at a bar called Kitty Cohen’s in East Austin to say good-bye. A carrot cake with “Good Luck” written in orange icing softened in the heat, but as far as they were concerned, the occasion was his birthday. “You can’t say, ‘Happy going away!’” said Jeff, his best friend, greeting him with a hug. “We’re just not happy. We’re all very sad about it.” Good-bye parties are inherently not that fun. They’re even less fun when they’re driven by a far-right takeover of the state government.
“Tell him he can’t leave,” whispered a woman seated under an umbrella. “There are too many Republicans.”
To hear Stettin tell it, that is precisely why he is moving out of what Rick Perry once described as the “blueberry in the tomato soup,” a predominantly Democratic city full of liberal expats like himself seeking progressive politics and an urban lifestyle at a red-state cost-of-living discount. “It was easy to just be in Never Neverland, floating with a bunch of other transplants having a good time,” said Stettin, who relocated from Dallas to Austin five years ago.
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BS.
Ruined Austin, time to move on. The adults will clean up after you.
I just hope they move OUT of Texas....
I might be the only freeper who has skinny-dipped with the ‘Children of God’ in Austin.
Crappy trails to you
Let’s not meet again
Best news I have heard in ages!!!
YES!!! please please please FLEE!!! Texas and run to California!!! Heck flee EVERYWHERE else and run to that hell hole!
As soon as tech gets tired of the BS and moves out of Califorina.. it’s doomed
Pure B$ probably inspired by illegal drugs.
My tagline describes these rectums perfectly.
What a pleasant story. I hope demofascists become disenchanted with my red state and decide to leave too.
Looks like he is moving back to CT…
Would be nice if all democrats moved back to where they came from..
Is t it funny how the two most popular destinations for Californians leaving their state - Florida and Texas - are becoming redder.
Yes…..they are a cancer everywhere they go.
Red/Conservative America needs to make life so uncomfortable for
The Left that they’re forced to move back to where they came from or, at least, move back to their Blue cities and leave the suburbs and rural areas alone.
My guess - got too expensive. Socialists will do that.
in this case it might be the good guys fleeing here, which is great!
conservatives welcome! but if you are liberal stay out or get out!
What are you saying? Is Austin still as left as it always was.
I was hoping this could be a bit of good news.
All I got to say is, “GTFO yall. don’t come back now ya hear”!
Ahhhh too bad
At least up to the present time the most likely Californians to flee the state are the conservative ones.
Maybe we hey can flee to California.
“It doesn’t matter how liberal Austin is. You still live in Texas.”
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Wow, all these liberals leaving my home town (that I don’t live in anymore due to liberals) is the BEST NEWS I’ve heard in decades.
Somebody please start a fund to buy them all plane tickets to ANYWHERE!!!!
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