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Old 03-14-2012, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Denver
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If the OP deems this discussion irrelevant to his questions, I'll happily comply.

You're one of my favorite posters, Curmudgeon, but where are you when my threads get hijacked?
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Old 03-14-2012, 03:50 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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We left because I make the same in Denver at 1/2 the COL.
I lived in CO half my life and just couldn't take the black ice, skeeters, winds, tornadoes and all the other stuff that climate offers anymore. I still go back in the spring or fall though to check on the Ranch but when I retire it won't be there. I pretty much feel a Californian now.
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Old 03-14-2012, 03:53 PM
 
Location: California
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I was born here and never left. I've met a lot of transplants and people who move around for their jobs and I know people who left for a variety of other reasons too. Not to "flee" CA for some mythical place where they don't have (fill in the blank) or whatever, but there was something in it for them. I've known people to move out of the country too..it's an adventure..and the world is a smaller place than it used to be. Moving around is the new normal!

CA is a place where many people think their dreams can come true, but it's just a place and it's not magic.
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Old 03-14-2012, 03:53 PM
 
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I agree, and I'm Catholic too.
Well, there you have it! Even among California Catholics there's diversity! I don't discourage it, I welcome it. And wish the general public would recognize the diversity of thought and opinion too; therefore I try to recognize it in other groups.
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:00 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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You mean other issues like taxes?
Nope. That is germaine as to why some Californians have left as the OP remarked upon.
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:02 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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Nope. That is germaine as to why some Californians have left as the OP remarked upon.
Social issues like that which precipitated Prop 8 are equally germaine.
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:08 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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Dream on. Nowhere did the OP bring it up. But nice try!
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:31 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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Dream on. Nowhere did the OP bring it up. But nice try!
The OP did write, "There seems to be a great gap between Californians and Mississippians in how we view certain cultural issues", and in two other comments he mentioned social conservatism.

Seems logical to conclude that the Prop 8 brouhaha is entirely germaine to his concerns.

However, I could not find any mention of taxes in any of his comments. Did I miss something, or are you the real hijacker?
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Stop arguing you two. You're both Catlicks. Where's the solidarity?
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Old 03-14-2012, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Mississippi Delta!
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I was referring to issues like abortion, same sex "marriage", use of "recreational" drugs, public nudity, etc. I wasn't talking about taxes, although I already know CA is a high-tax state.
It seems to me if you support at least some of the former, you will be on the "winning" side in CA nowadays.
I agree with an earlier poster who posted that California had a "frontier" mentality formed by the various people who moved there years ago who couldn't fit in anywhere else. For example, SF was a homosexual haven long before anyone was talking about gay rights.
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