Posted on 11/04/2004 5:37:45 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Manistee is nicer still!
Maybe we could sell California back to Mexico??
As long as they stay away from Austin.... too many Californians moving here.
They run it into the ground. Ahnuld bought them some time, but he can't do it alone without help from the legislature. And he won't get help from the legislature which is solidly gerrymandered Democratic, and would be Democratic in any event.
California liberals are the left of the left. The demographics are entirely skewed against Republicans and there's no scenario where that changes.
California is officially something like a cross between Europe and Mexico, and I expect to see more people bail for other parts of the country over the next two decades.
If anyone has a strategy for rescuing California, I'd love to hear it. I don't think it's possible during our lifetimes.
In many ways, I hate to say goodbye to this place. It's got great weather, a marvelous variety of natural beauty and fun activities from surfing to skiing, but quite frankly, the liberalism and illegal immigration has just gnawed our nerves down to the point that they are raw, and can't take any more.
I'd love to stay and fight the liberal tide alongside all the good conservative people here (I'd estimate that CA is about 45% conservative, mostly in the non-coastal areas), but I'm battle-weary and don't see any end in sight to the cancerous spread of leftist insanity.
The town I live in, in the Salinas Valley, is about 90% Mexican, and living here is quite literally like living in Mexico -- I can't even communicate on a basic level (i.e. the spoken language) with over half the people in my neighborhood.
Like everyone else, I'm surprised that the housing market can continue to sustain such a rapid upward spiral in pricing, but I'm ready to get out of that market, cash in on my home equity, and buy a nice plot of land with a spacious house smack-dab in the middle of Flyover Country.
We're currently favoring Tennessee, with other potential points-of-destination including Texas, South Carolina, and North Carolina. I grew up in Texas, so I already know how great it is to be surrounded by friendly people who share our conservative values. That, more than anything else, is what we're really looking forward to as we head eastward.
You're right.
Hey California, Las Vegas is horrible, too hot, too much traffic, too much of everything.
Don't move here where I live!
You should see all the houses with "granny flats" being built in the garage or backyards.....that way you can fit two families or renter into the space of one!
>>>Hardly the case, all you have to look at are the median home prices in California
15 people in one family? What area did they move from?
I'm not sure, Southern Cal somewhere. It was a dad, his son, daughter in law and their kids, his daughter, son in law and their kids, etc...not like one mom, one dad, and 13 kids.
It's NOT the immigrants from California that will turn our red state (Nevada) into a blue state. The Californians that move here are moving here for a reason - they tend to be fairly well off, anti-tax, and socially conservative.
It is the continued massive immigration of poor hispanics and their offspring that are turning Nevada blue (just as it inevitably turned California blue)...
I was only there once (our field office was in TC, but we had gas production in the Manistee area), but I sure agree with you!
There were 4 million non-minority people who left Calif. last year. I moved from Calif., in June, along with 4-6 million other non minority people. 10 million people have left Calif. in two years. Sweden, has a population of less than 10 million. We are fleeing the disease. The disease has something to do with California being blue.
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