My points are tangent to my irritation. The evil is not radiating from SoCal, the evil is growing from within, everyplace you look. You may find you run from one boogeyman to encounter another. I choose to stay and face the boogeyman.
Other points, I love Texas and think its the greatest state in the union. Watch out for Texican's though, the greatness of their state is not the fault of many of them, no matter how much they think that may be the case. Ain't nothing in the world as ignorant as a incorrect Texan who is convinced he is correct.
I don't think the real estate bubble is going to burst. I think the whole friggin' thing is going to explode, and after the fallout we'll pick up the pieces and fix it, hopefully rightly. Again, its a sickness that won't be exorcised until it festers.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Have you read Thomas Chitum's book "Civi War II", by any chance?
I know I am not going to heaven -- I want to raise my kids first! -- but just a place where I can buy a house. Godspeed and let Him keep your back strong. Many of the same forces that are pronounced in CA are just a few years away from the same condition in TX.
There, at least, I'll have something to call my own to defend and fight for even harder than I fought for Prop 187, getting decent conservatives elected, and preventing my neighborhood from looking like a 3rd world garbage dump.