Posted on 10/02/2019 8:51:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Colorado is headed for Kaleephornia. Not there yet but trying really hard.”
Sadly, I agree. Been in CO since 1970. Retirement is a few years out and I’m starting to consider other options. Start taking vacations to check it out other places. Love this state, but we’ve been taken over. Downtown Denver is a no longer a safe place to be.
Every single day the Democrats and Republicans work tirelessly to sneak enough foreigners into this country to turn the rest of it into the same putrid s*thole as California.
Make that 75.
On the basis of political preference? Either you don’t live in CA or you don’t understand the inherent corruption of a one-party state, especially one of the democrat variety. It has nothing to do with politics; it has everything to do with basic habitability. Come spend a day in San Francisco’s Mission District, or LA’s skid row and talk to us about political preference.
I am old and I am a homeowner in California. I bought my place when Jimmy Carter was in the White House. If not for Proposition 13 I would have been out of here a long time ago. My property taxes are about $1,000 per year.
I’m a gun collector. “Dramatic” would be the way California would attempt to ruin my life for simply exercising my constitutional rights.....even though I’ve never been so much as charged with even a misdemeanor, even though I’ve never taken a dime of public assistance and have paid a lot in taxes. They would charge me with multiple felonies for several of the mags I own - let alone the actual guns - and with a felony conviction on my record, they would make it impossible for me to continue to work in the banking industry not to mention how badly damaged I’d be with other potential employers.
California has an oppressive Leftist political culture which attempts to ruin the lives of political dissidents. I refuse to live under that oppression.
yes indeed. We get calls all the time ppl wanting to buy our property. Very weird and without ceasing.
Taxes through the roof
I’m impressed that Chuck actually upped and moved to Texas. That’s at least 1,000 miles - a long way to go, just for political reasons.
That’s a good idea. Get out, and then we’ll give it back to Mexico.
Make California Mexico Again
Reminds me of the Dennis Prager video “immigrants, don’t vote for what you fled”.
It’s also the self-identifying conservative with years of subliminal liberal indoctrination.....
Just celebrated our one month of freedom in our escape from the double despotism of Sacramento and California fleeing to Saint George, Utah. . . and no, we are not Mormon. It’s just a wonderfully beautiful, conservative (80%) place to live.
We soon will have severed all ties to California and Sacramento with the sales of our properties there which we have on the market.
Unfortunately I have to make one more trip back to get more of our property due to the fact that Penske rental truck screwed up our truck rental contract and only provided a 22’ truck instead of the 26’ truck we had reserved, and which they had guaranteed would be there. I have to make another run. RATS!
Please, don’t come to TX. Stay and fix your problems.
>>All Republicans in California should avoid filling out the census. Fewer citizens, fewer reps. Just ‘forget’ to do it.
I think that’s why the Census now uses statistical “adjustments” to the count to come up with the final numbers. It lets the Rat bureaucrats just make up any numbers that suit them to maintain Socialist political power.
Do it now, don’t wait. The supermajority of the state legislature in the first part of September passed state wide rent control. Put your houses on the market now before property values tank. They also passed a prohibition for property owners to refuse to rent to Section 8 candidates for their properties. Section 8 tenants are notorious for trashing the properties at a higher rate than other tenants because they have an even lower “ownership” of the property than those who pay full rent. As I understand it, they put much higher restrictions on evictions into the the law. In Sacramento, a property owner/manager has to go immediately into court to evict any tenant, getting a hearing date in an already crowded court calendar. We are talking months, if not a year or so later, for tenants who may not be paying rent. Insane inmates now rule the asylum.
Since we moved to Utah, every day there has been a new validation from the inmates in the legislature, the governor’s office, or the City Council in Sacramento to the point that I say they can’t top that. Then the next day one of them says “Hold muh beer, and watch this!”
So get the hell out. It’s the Titanic and sinking fast.
The article refers to “conservatives”, so the context of the article is the political. Habitability is downstream from politics. And I used to live in LA for many years so I know what’s going on there. I don’t know WTF you are talking about.
“”I moved from Irvine CA to Prescott Valley AZ two years ago. Five people I know are also considering moving to this area from CA, all conservative. This area is +21 Republican.””
We also checked out Prescott when we lived in Irvine. We went there for a week in 1996 and while it was a pleasant enough place, we couldn’t get over the fear of fires in the nearby forests. We visited with friends who lived near the forests and it just reinforced our feelings.
We got out of CA in 2006 by moving across the country to GA where we have nothing to fear except tornadoes and hurricanes - tho’ far enough inland that our area should be safe from them. We do have the watches and warnings around the clock which make you stay dressed at night, a grab bag handy but what good that would do, I have no idea! You can pack medicines, wallets, a few emergency supplies in a bag but it won’t stay with you very long if you’re hit with a tornado or hurricane.
I always felt safer in CA with survival gear that wasn’t going to be blown away. Putting together survival gear here was a challenge and I finally gave up. I tell people that I preferred the earthquakes because I never stayed awake all night in CA waiting for one to hit.
We have six seasons here - spring, tornado, summer, fall, hurricane and winter.
I’m just as guilty as anyone, but this is the problem with Conservatives, they have the means to go somewhere else, and that’s what they do rather than staying and fighting.
Eventually, however, the day will come when there will be no place else to go.
Yup, been a naturalized Texan for over 40 years. The Army brought me to Fort Bliss after college, lived in El Paso for 15 years, now live in Irving/Valley Ranch for 22 years.
I suppose I'll die here in North Texas, though I'd like to relocate to the Hill Country. My kids all live in the area, that's what keeps us here.
It's getting more crowded every day. Thankfully, they keep building new roads.
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