Posted on 06/15/2024 8:51:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Several weeks ago, I flew to Texas to visit my friend Mollie, who had left California in 2022. Whenever I told someone I was going to Texas, their first question was, “Are you moving out of California?”
How different from when I moved to California in 1977…
“I’m so jealous!” That was the reaction of family and friends when my husband and I announced that, after one year of marriage, we were leaving New York. It was a difficult decision because I was close to my parents, particularly my mother. For us, the primary reason was the weather. We did not enjoy humid summers or frozen winters and wanted to move before devoting years to our careers.
In our early 20s, relocating across the country felt like an exciting adventure, especially since California was still paradise with its snow-capped mountains and glistening beaches. From the streets of San Francisco to the glitter of Hollywood and from magical Disneyland to Old Town San Diego, almost everyone wanted to live or vacation in California.
Today, leaving California is part of the conversation. Almost every Californian knows someone who has left the state and others (including themselves) who are thinking about relocating. How fast can you say Texas, Florida, Idaho, Tennessee, South Carolina … It’s ABC as people want to live Anywhere But California due to lurid high taxes, escalating crime, the nation’s highest poverty rate, the influx of illegal migrants who are given freebies, plus an exploding homeless population, to name a few reasons to leave.
Gavin Newsom is U-Haul’s salesman of the year—every year!
So, y’all I spent four wonderful days in beautiful Georgetown, still a conservative stronghold outside of Austin. But Austin’s liberal population is growing.
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>Pointing out the Democrats cheat is “dem talking points”
LOLOLOLOL
Still waiting to hear what is so bad about Bakersfield, Fresno, Clovis, Simi Valley, Murrieta, Temecula, Yorba Linda, Villa Park, Redding, Escondido, Shasta County, Yucaipa, San Clemente, Tehama County, Lincoln, Apple Valley, Visalia, Rocklin, Calaveras County, Rancho Santa Margarita, Placer County, Mission Viejo, Lodi, Tuolumne County, Santee, El Dorado County, Laguna Niguel, Menifee, Kings County, Poway, Palm Desert, Roseville, Tulare County, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills Estates, Palos Verdes Estates, Torrance, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Irvine, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Seal Beach, and San Juan Capistrano.
“but did they really have to cheat their way into power?”
Then why cheat?
"We haven't had that spirit here since 1969."
True dat.
Likewise, I am an Ulster Scot (dad’s side), and he was a New Jersey Militiaman during the Revolution.
Not sure if my family fought against the crown or not. Still investigating.
There is not a red state in the nation.
Not one.
Not even Texas.
Texas’ legislature has not secured its elections.
Texas’ legislature has not protected its budget and its taxpayers from threats by Deep State.
We are not voting-with-our-feet our way out of this.
I got out of Jersey when Corzine was governor. I didn’t want my property values to crash and the taxes were killing me. I moved to San Antonio where the house of the same size cost me 1/3 and my taxes were 1/4 of what I paid in Jersey. Best move I ever made.
Actually, you are a good example of why people hate Californians too. Besides the crime, the nasty dirty streets, the taxes, etc........most seem to be jerks looking angry all the time.
And I lived there for 50 years, born and raised. We fled 15 years ago to Texas. Every single neighbor around me welcomed us. In Southern California...neighbors don’t even know each other.
We can always tell a Californian who has moved here. An unsmiling jerk with a mask on.
>>>Still waiting to hear what is so bad about Bakersfield, Fresno, Clovis, Simi Valley, Murrieta, Temecula, Yorba Linda, Villa Park, Redding, Escondido, Shasta County, Yucaipa, San Clemente, Tehama County, Lincoln, Apple Valley, Visalia, Rocklin, Calaveras County, Rancho Santa Margarita, Placer County, Mission Viejo, Lodi, Tuolumne County, Santee, El Dorado County, Laguna Niguel, Menifee, Kings County, Poway, Palm Desert, Roseville, Tulare County, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills Estates, Palos Verdes Estates, Torrance, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Irvine, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Seal Beach, and San Juan Capistrano.>>>
You might be able to fool others here who aren’t familiar with California. Not me. Lived there for 50 years and have to go back often on business. And the cities above are full of nasty, homeless, mentally sick criminals running around.
I was in Huntington Beach a few weeks ago and watched homeless people going through the trash on Main st. by the pier eating out of the can. Homeless everywhere! Our friends in Seal Beach live across from the Seal Beach Pier.....homeless drugged out crazies everywhere. tents too. They just have learned to live with it......
In Manhattan Beach, homeless breaking into homes and cars all the time. We sold our condo in old town Orange, as in Orange County, just 2 years ago, a little place we had for vacations, etc....too many homeless and it’s getting worse. Crime, I had a homeless guy come after me sitting at a light near Villa Park! That was it....I said I’m selling.
Keep trying to fool others here.......but you ain’t fooling anyone familiar with California. We were in Santa Cruz , beautiful beach community right? Homeless EVERYWHERE! Drug addicts, mentally unwell, criminals on their bikes. We couldn’t wait to get home to Texas. You feel dirty and nasty when you visit California now. Everywhere.....all the cities....homeless, druggies, criminals, crazies. Oh, except the really rich cities like Beverly Hills. The cops chase em out because the rich liberals won’t have in their back yard.
Get outta here.....
I think anyone moving from a blue state to a red state should have voting rights suspended for 5 years. That gives them time to enjoy the benefits of a red state and get to understand what freedom is before they start to destroy it. It might change their mind.
We left CA in 2010 for TN.
Sold the house SoCal in a high-density subdivision for over $600K. About 2800 sq. ft. on a tiny lot.
Then in TN we bought our 5,000 sq. ft. house on 2.5 acres, on a river for $375K.
All taxes are lower.
We were laughing when we registered our two cars here. I don’t recall the exact dollar figure, but the cost was about 1/10th of the cost in CA. The County Clerk lady couldn’t understand why we were laughing.
The first time we checked out at the local grocery store, the clerk knew we were new. She asked, “Where do you go to church?” Not, “Do you go to church?” Then the ladies in line all invited us to their churches. If a store clerk in CA had asked that same question, she’d probably have been fired.
We see new people moving in with NY and CA plates, and cringe. Then we learn that their politics are the same as ours — the reason they left the prior states.
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The statement must not be “leaving California” but rather “moving to America”
Yep, but then stupid hurts sometimes. Like when the gas tax repeal was represented as cutting infrastructure. And then all the people too stupid to see through the BS, all cried when it went into effect.
*SNIFF*
I am curious where $300,000 will by all of this.
This is not possible in Oklahoma. One of the cheapest places to own property on a lake.
10 years ago, we moved from a red state to a neighboring red state, to a smaller town that seemed quaint still. One of my neighbors asked if I was planning to vote in the upcoming primaries (this was within our first year) and I told her no, that I was trying to observe and learn first how this little place managed to maintain its charm. I told her I didn’t want to ruin it with how things were done where I came from.
We recently looked back at the taxes of our former community. They have skyrocketed. I guess it’s more purple than red anymore.
Those who moved out of California will still vote for democrats wherever they are
If you’re moving from California to Minnesota, you’ll need more than a sunlamp. Get some good winter clothes, and if your driveway is long, you’ll need a snowblower. Snow shovels will wear you out after the second snowfall.
I lived in Newport Beach and later Mission Viejo many decades ago.
Yes—they are beautiful.
However—the real estate is insanely expensive—and was even then.
That was the reason I left.
Now I have cold winters but live in a home I can easily afford where I can’t see or hear any neighbors.
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