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Old 05-16-2012, 10:47 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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The competition is heating up when it comes to capitalizing on the California exodus:

"In an interview with The Times, the state's Republican governor, Terry Branstad, boasted how he balanced the state's budget without raising taxes and is getting calls from California businesses looking to move.

'They want to get out of California as quick as they can,' Branstad said. 'We welcome them to Iowa. I’ve got California companies on my call list right now.'”


I think I'd prefer Texas, myself. Iowa is too close to Minnesota.
The only time I even get to Iowa is flying over. Exodus, yes, but so many are attracted to this beautiful state.
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Old 05-16-2012, 10:54 PM
 
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People will come - YouTube
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Old 05-16-2012, 11:24 PM
 
Location: La Cañada
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Iowa! Yay!


It's like....something ridiculous. I can't even come up with one for this, but it's crazy.

I mean, sure they have Des Moines...and...Des Moines....*cough*
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Old 05-16-2012, 11:38 PM
 
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Iowa is one of the 50 states?
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Old 05-16-2012, 11:55 PM
 
Location: Back in the Southland
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California is shaking in it's organic boots from the menace that is Iowa
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Old 05-16-2012, 11:57 PM
 
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Well, at least they have Gay marriage in Iowa.
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Old 05-17-2012, 12:08 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Might not for much longer. All the judges who passed it were removed from office by vox populi, I'm told.
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Old 05-17-2012, 06:32 AM
 
Location: Quimper Peninsula
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Believe it or not Iowa is fairly progressive. That's how they got it to begin with...
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Minnesotans affectionately refer to the acronym IOWA to mean:
Idiots Out Wandering About

Add that to your gee whiz file..
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Old 05-17-2012, 06:42 AM
 
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I have a good friend who works for the Iowa Development Dept.. He's been coming out to California for twenty years trying to get businesses to relocate to Iowa. I asked him once just how many had he managed to convince to move in all those years. Basically, if Branstad knew how few it was my friend would probably be out of a job.
"All those years" didn't have CA imploding. 16 years ago, I returned to CA from AZ, because it really was the best state in the country. But as the years went by, the tax and spenders, the enviro-nazis, and the anti-business crowd turned a once-great state to a cesspool. Yes, it's beautiful. But beauty means nothing when you have no job, no money and see no end in sight.

Going on 2 years in Texas, and love it more every day. Never thought I'd leave CA either, but I never thought CA would become what it has.
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Old 05-17-2012, 08:07 AM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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But beauty means nothing when you have no job, no money and see no end in sight.

Going on 2 years in Texas, and love it more every day. Never thought I'd leave CA either, but I never thought CA would become what it has.
Thank you for your move, and for your efforts to get more to follow. Anything you can think that will help the outflow, please let us know.

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the tax and spenders, the enviro-nazis, and the anti-business crowd
Apparently we need more of them.
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