What exactly does CAGOP do except ask for money?
Dear Lord, please make Arizona invisible to CA refugees...
- Steely Dan, "My Old School"
The earth is rumbling. Perhaps the day is not far off.
Not soon enough will the golden handcuffs be gone and so will we.
LA SUCKS
other than the weather
The gay bay is also commie lib
But it’s BEAUTIFUL and many folks here are really nice
We have redwood forests. Foggy misty hills. Gorgeous seascapes
I’m surrounded on three sides by incredible mountains
loma alta. Mt Tamal país. White hill
We don’t lock our doors
My kids have been able to cruise town since age 6 alone
We have NICE folks here and nobody even cares about politics
My WATER district has SEVEN reservoirs that are 60-200000 acre feet and are always full (mmwd the oldest in CA)
SF. liberal hell hole
LA IS A TOTAL COMLLETE HELL HOLE WHERE EVERYTHING IS FAKE AND THERE NO NATURE
Lo
I hate California and cannot wait to leave this commie cesspool behind. One of these days retirement will save me.
My inlaws just sold their house in Thousand Oaks, CA...in 3 days. 800k for a 1200 sq ft house. Now they will retire in CDA, Idaho area. Recent gun grabs and single payer were straws that broke their back.
Very good. We left CA in 2006... Reading this, I remember sitting so many evenings and so many hours in the ‘70’s discussing the state of “everything” with neighbors at the kitchen tables over coffee. It dawned on me just now that we weren’t complaining about CA as much as we were complaining about the state of the country. Coming out of the sixties, where were we going? Were the hippies we saw parading in the streets, while others burned down cities going to be the ones in charge in a few years? We had no idea.
By the time we were ready to leave - retire - things had reached the point of no return as we saw it. So sad as I truly did love CA and I wasn’t even a native. My husband was but I had moved there when I was 21 from NY State. Had no desire to go back there...
If it weren’t for being too old to ever consider returning, I would in a heart beat if not for that...when as the author said it gets turned around. The county we lived in for years (OC) went for Hillary in 2012 and that was unbelievable.
SoCal born and raised. Not a better place to be a kid. Left for Oregon in 1986 - southern Oregon Coast. Left for Texas in 2001 and recently moved to Arkansas. There are still decent places for a conservative to live, but Cali is lost.
I was born in Cali, and spent close to half a century there. i had enough of the rot and liberal craziness in 2005, and moved to Texas.
I haven’t been home sick a single day, because my California was gone long before I left.
WTH?
Do we just run until there is no where to go and the genocide begins?
I don’t understand the virtue of surrender.
Thinking California can be “FIXED”???
Not Bloody Likely!
There's still plenty to plunder, including other states when they can get it, and so I don't see the problem going away anytime soon. Fixing it will involve cutting taxes and the dependent population, and the momentum is still very much the other way.
What ever happened to Reagan’s California?
I’ve been out of CA for 17 years and have never looked back. WA is very liberal but so far we have not come close to jumping off the cliff, unless one lives in Seattle. I’ll take our loony libs any day here than the pure communists in Sacramento. There’s hope here I think, not in CA.
50 years in Southern California. Now 9 years in North Dallas and haven’t looked back. Oh, we bought a small condo in old town orange and I keep a KTM Duke 390 there in the garage. f
I do miss my restaurants and lots of fond memories and I enjoy my monthly trips back. But we have grown to love North Dallas, the people are friendly, I got a house that would go easily for close to million dollars by the beach for around $300,000 and I play tennis daily and right now......I’m excited about buying a yard tiller to churn up the yard and plant some new grass. Never used a tiller before. Life is good in Texas.....real good. (no state income tax).......
Here’s the thing. Subsiding on what is already here is one thing. And I have great fondness and some residual love for this La La Land where I grew up. But in a while I will be purchasing the biggest expense I’ve ever had, my own home. How could anyone wisely invest here, if you aren’t a zillionaire? What will happen to your property taxes? What will happen to your property values? What will happen to your property if there is no more water and marauding gang bangers worse than today? It doesn’t seem a wise place for anyone not dirt poor or extremely wealthy.
Dear President Trump:
Please consider giving southern California back to Mexico, in exchange for all Mexican citizens in the other 49 states plus the rest of California being forced to move there. Welcome New California as a relatively conservative state.
Now that’s a win-win.
Quitter.