Don't Californicate My Texas (Austin: real estate, assessor, appliances)

[lpc123]

Austin particularly (and other cities too)...if you are coming here from CA, fine, but please do not try to Californicate my state.

[Austinite76]

So. Moving here 8 years ago gives you the right to tell people moving in what to do?

To all the "Austinites are ______" readers. This isn't an Austinite.

[ATX Wahine]

I'm sure people will take OP's advice to heart and change their life plans. I mean, how can you argue with a 2010 transplant?

[centralaustinite]

Dude! That ship sailed in Austin in about 1993!

[ScoPro]

The OP might be shocked to know that the City of Austin voters elected a liberal activist from New York City (Queens, to be exact) as Mayor in 1975.

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

This afternoon, travelling NW bound Highway 71 by the Hill Country Galleria, I witnessed an F150 truck with Texas plates followed by a Toyota Camry with California plates blatantly turned left thru a solid red light that had been red for 2, maybe 3, possibly 4, but no more than 5 or 6 seconds into the entrance shopping center parking lot..

My guess what happened is the driver of theToyota couldn't see the red light because the height of the F150 truck blocked the view of the red light, which I suppose means the Toyota with California plates was following too close for comfort behind the Ford F150 with Texas plates. The law calls it tailgating and tailgating another vehicle is a traffic violation.

Fortunately there was no wreck.

[G Grasshopper]

Ivory, I certainly won't defend bad driving, but Texans are the absolute champions at running red lights! Californians don't even come close. One bad California driver does not make a trend. The first day after we moved to Texas, my son was rear-ended as he stopped at a changing light. When the young woman got out of her car, the first thing she said was "Why didn't you just run it? If you're going to live in Texas, you gotta start running the lights." She was serious.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by centralaustinite

Dude! That ship sailed in Austin in about 1993!

Yeah... I was chased from Colorado in the 1970's due to Californication as well as TX infiltration.

So... I finally joined them. (Have places in TX and CO, + am at the moment (and frequently) in CA...)

Too bad CA did not require that all Real Estate Equity in excess of national average home price REMAIN within CA borders... We (the rest of us) would still be living in great homes under $100k and my property taxes would not have gone from $800 / yr to $14,400/yr due to artificial inflation. After all... a bed is a bed,,, Why pay $47/ day to the county to sleep in your own (?) bed. (up from $3/ day) Same home, only OLDER! (needs roof, paint ... replacement appliances, can't afford to maintain due to retired (NO income) but NOW high taxes . )

Imagine what financial shape CA would have been in keeping all that retained equity invested within their state! They might even have retained some J-O-B-S! MORE revenue / income for ALL!!!

and... millions of seniors / farmers / families, in 8+ states would have retained their generations old family properties, rather than relinquishing them to Californicators!

Very sad to see the 'displacements'.

The response from my Tax Assessor (in TX, CO, and WA) "Sell to a Californian" (of which they all ARE... immigrants with wealth / $$ to unnecessarily inflate the standard cost of homes and chase out the locals.!!!)

Only CA has Prop 13!!! Most of my co-workers from CA, retained their CA props and thus their Prop 13 benefit. They are now retired GOLDEN! (often under $1000/ yr taxes on $2m CA homes)

[lpc123]

Originally Posted by Austinite76

So. Moving here 8 years ago gives you the right to tell people moving in what to do?

To all the "Austinites are ______" readers. This isn't an Austinite.

Actually I am from TX, and lived out of state for a time, returning eight years ago.

[Austinite76]

Originally Posted by lpc123

Actually I am from TX, and lived out of state for a time, returning eight years ago.

Which gives you what right exactly to tell people what to do?