[silverleaf]

isn't it funny that so many of those who leave take their failed expectations of big govt with them- the California expats ruined western Colorado during the time we lived there

They moved to the Western Slope and immediately supported politicians who raised local taxes to build gyms, water slides, and ball fields in the middle of God's greatest natural recreation areas

[STD]

We left in the 70’s. Come to Alaska!

[Red Boots]

isn't it funny that so many of those who leave take their failed expectations of big govt with them- the California expats ruined western Colorado during the time we lived there

Still happening: won't let us drill our rich natural gas fields ( one person who lived on a road where gas-related water trucks ran got asthma it hit the local paper like a tsunami and they killed the gas industry and put 7000 local residents out of work).

One endangered squawfish- take water rights that supported generations of family ranches off the table- got to save the fish), no coal fired power plants ( even tho we're sitting on one of the west's great reserves, got to use windmills instead- even tho they don't supply enough power and are all on the eastern slope. I could go on, but you get the picture.