Posted on 02/01/2023 1:29:39 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
There are two types of Californians coming to Texas. The early ones (over the past ten years) came like many other Texans in search of freedom and liberty. I know of at least two couples that made the move because of the gun laws.I am sure the other regulations and restrictions were additional reasons...
The other type are arriving here because that’s where their jobs went... This is typical of those moving to Austin and bringing California with them thus destroying our “Hill Country” in many ways. We live sixty miles north of Austin near IH-35 and we are getting the overflow.
In the past we looked forward to our trips to Austin and I belonged to a couple of volunteer organizations there. I refuse to even visit the city now unless there is no choice.
Our area is undergoing massive expansion for two reasons, Texans leaving Austin and the California overflow.Our real estate prices are gong out of sight and California based businesses are moving into every strip mall bringing their sorry Cali-burgers with them.
The relocated folks are very defensive when you ask where they are from since we make no secret that we do not like the invasion.
They are also putting a strain on our limited resources like water.
The Corps of Engineers and the Brazos River Authority are now preparing a pipe line to tie our two local lakes together so that water can be moved to the lake that is already pipe-lined to our adjacent county,Williamson, that is the north Austin sanctuary of Californians. Our lakes are all at drought levels with the major source of Austin water, Lake Travis, down to 46% capacity and it is that high only because it feeder lake, the very large Lake Buchanan, has been drained to 60% capacity. We ain’t got the water as tens of thousands more Californians prepare to move into the jobs already announced in the Central Texas area...
We personally own a large parcel of land very near IH-35 (4 miles and IH-14 (1/2 mile) where the deer and the armadillos still roam. We are constantly bombarded by people wanting to do us a favor by taking this old unused land and turn it into a California East... We are doing our best to keep Texas the way Texas wants to be. ENUF!!!
Unfortunately, Newsom is several inches taller than DeSantis - and the MSM would play up that visual at every opportunity.
So are all these newcomers going to have the effect of gentrifying Florida Man out to Alabama and Georgia?
All too true about Florida becoming crowded. Then again, due to more intensive growth in Orlando, I have all the shopping, entertainment, and medical and dental care that I need within fifteen or twenty minutes of driving.
We don’t want your socialist voters turning our state into little California.
Soon it will be city all the way from LaGrange/Auburn/Opeleika to Atlanta, all the way to Chattanooga and then on to Nashville. The stretch of I-85 I used to travel to Atlanta only has about 20 miles of countryside left.
Being you’re in the Orlando area, you’re pretty used to crowded conditions already. I can’t imagine how bad I-4 is now. It was a dumpster fire 10 years ago. I’m in sarasota. It used to be a quiet and quaint Sleepy town when i first moved here in 88
Your complaint about Sarasota now holds true for most of Florida. There are not many sleepy towns left. I get the sense though that in the next two decades, new means of travel, shopping over the internet, and increased work from home may help to reduce traffic and ease the frantic pace of life. Or at least I hope that will be so.
I’ve read that there are two types of new people who have moved from blue to red states. The first is people who have left of their own volition. They’re usually conservative. The second type is people who have relocated because their employer has relocated from a blue to a red state. They’re usually liberal. This is why red states should not offer enticements to businesses to relocate from blue states.
We’ve had Illinois residents moving here to Indiana.
I remember when they built Lenox mall in Atlanta and there was no I285. Dunwoody was the farthest out northern suburb. Now I985 heading up to Gainesville and the N GA mountains is very developed . our property near Cornelia is in the path of growth. In 10 years it will be Gainesville. Fortunately our little street is 5 properties of 5 plus acres each and the county has said no more subdividing.
“Please don’t move to N GA. Its already getting too crowded from the white flight out of Atlanta.”
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Agreed. And it is driving up real estate prices to the point that locals cannot afford it. People are selling their high dollar homes up north and coming to Georgia and paying cash for property, thus avoiding having to deal with appraisals and financing. Locals can’t compete with that.
We are putting my late mother’s small house and 9 rural acres on the market and the locals that would like to purchase it can’t afford financing at the current interest rates. We will have no choice but to sell it to someone from out of state since we have a fiduciary duty to the heirs to sell it at current market prices.
Yes that’s exactly what is happening. They sell for a million dollars then come here and buy a $500,000 house and two brand new vehicles. We sold my moms house across the street from us last January to a guy from Burma for $10,000 over asking. We had 2-3 cash offers. Soon our house in Lawrenceville will go up for sale and I expect the same thing to happen. A lot of investors are still buying homes for cash here because the rents are high.
“Soon our house in Lawrenceville will go up for sale and I expect the same thing to happen.”
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Pssst. Wanta buy a small house with a few acres in a rural county farther out in the country (No HOA, or nearby neighbors)? I know where one is that will soon go on the market. LOL
We are seeing the elderly farmers who have worked land handed down through generations pass away, and their children or grandchildren now are putting that land on the market as quickly as possible. Many of them have moved away and have no desire to keep the land. Of course, many are in the same position we are and have no choice but to sell into the current market.
These are 70 to 250 acre tracts of beautiful half wooded/half pasture pieces of property, many with a small creek or stream running through them. As I said, many locals would like to purchase, some to continue the farming traditions, but they can’t compete with the out-of-state cash offers. I hate to watch as these properties are cut up into 1/4 acre lots with cookie-cutter houses being built.
Then more pressure is put on our school systems, roads, and public services, and our taxes go up as the newcomers demand “more, more, more”, as they show up at our county meetings in order to tell us “yokel locals” how things SHOULD be done.
We were lucky to get one of the last small parcels of around 5.5 acres still zoned unrestricted agricultural in Habersham county. 😉
“We were lucky to get one of the last small parcels of around 5.5 acres still zoned unrestricted agricultural in Habersham county. 😉”
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Good find! Near the beautiful blue-ridge parkway, far enough away from both Atlanta and Anderson, SC, but close enough to decent-sized towns to find anything you need. A lot of antique and second-hand shops so that you can decorate to your heart’s content for very little money.
Thank goodness I moved to FL and am in the right place at the right time. Especially as I escaped from IL that has disintegrated into a liberal cesspool, both in Chicago under Lightfoot’s reign, and in the state at large, under Pritzker’s reign. A total disaster exists in IL.
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