[crystalblue]

Cali?

how would you describe the political climate?
im guessing pretty durn liberal/open

[jksouthbay88]

Southern California
I'm sure I'm going to be one of those people moving to the valley in a few years because it is just too damn expensive here

[crystalblue]

Originally Posted by jksouthbay88

Southern California
I'm sure I'm going to be one of those people moving to the valley in a few years because it is just too damn expensive here

yep

every time i look at cali, it always comes back to $$$

so, maybe if i move where all the Californians are going too,i can get me some of those hot cali babes!

[ejl127]

Move from NYC. Better weather, less traffic, lower cost of living, lower cost of housing, better job op's for me, much worse drivers here....go figure.

[Chest Rockwell]

Political climate is conservative. Tax bills rarely get passed. The people of NV voted in a knowingly corrupt governor with a sex scandal weeks before election because the competition was a female democrat. LDS church has a very strong influence in Las Vegas. It may seem all liberal with the sex ads and gambling and what not, but that just drives the economy.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Chest Rockwell

Political climate is conservative. Tax bills rarely get passed. The people of NV voted in a knowingly corrupt governor with a sex scandal weeks before election because the competition was a female democrat. LDS church has a very strong influence in Las Vegas. It may seem all liberal with the sex ads and gambling and what not, but that just drives the economy.

That's about right (not that it's a bad thing). And it seems that most of the invaders are from California. Olecapt probably has some stats on it, though I believe that something like 65% or more of the visitors are from California, and I'd bet that's about right for the people moving here. I think the rest are probably pretty evenly scattered from all the other 48 states, plus most countries of the world are represented.

When that which I term an invasion got started, back in about 1987 or 88, the LA Times ran a whole section on Southern California's invasion of Las Vegas. It said that people in LA were getting, at the time, over $300,000 for homes they had paid maybe $40,000 for. So they were moving to Vegas where houses were cheap. They would pay $125,000 cash for a home worth about $90,000 and think it was a bargain. And they still had money left over to retire on. That paper has always hated Las Vegas, so they were laughing at what dumb rubes we were for allowing Californias to come in and take over and raise property values to where locals couldn't afford a home. Before that I had always liked Californians.

The war in Bosnia, and the "ethnic cleansing" that went on there was over about 250,000 people coming across the border. We have been "invaded" by 1½ million. Maybe Nevada should have declared war on California.

[Tom Lennox 70]

So do these Californians bring their liberal politics to Nevada? New Yorkers have destroeyd Maryland and Virginia this way, bringing their liberalism, unfriendliness, rudeness, lack of moral values etc down to the Mid-Atlantic and then to the South.

Las Vegas is one of the places I'm thinking about living in the future.

Are the Californians at least slightly less snobby, arrogant, and rude than New Yorkers and other people from the Northeast?

[Tom Lennox 70]

I've heard that the Californians moving to Nevada and other states are actually the more conservative, down-to-earth ones sick of high prices, crazy taxes and illegal immigrants in Cali. is that true to a certain extent?

How good of a job is Nevada doing regarding keeping illegals out? Are there a lot of Mexicans refusing to Americanize and changing the culture. My own parents are Asian immigrants but my hometown in Maryland has changed so much from illegals that I don't understand the culture here anymore and its impossible for me to adapt. And the newcomers are not interested in Americanizing, learning English, or adapting to our culture.

[PinkString]

I think alot of new Las Vegans come from the twilight zone. That would explain alot of things.

[Rachael84]

Originally Posted by Terrapin2212

Are the Californians at least slightly less snobby, arrogant, and rude than New Yorkers and other people from the Northeast?

That's not a fair judgement to make. Unless you've been around the entire NYC metro area for a decent amount of time, then you can fairly say that's what your view is. In fact, many people believe NYers are nice. Check out the thread on the New York board about attitudes. Everyone has basically summed up that we have a toughness that gets taken as rude sometimes, but it's only because it's a tough area to survive in, that we have to make sure no one steps on us.

Ask a NYer on the street directions or anything along those lines, and they'll stop and help you. Just last week I was in Brooklyn (in an area I didn't know so well), and I asked a man where a road was. He not only told me, but he walked me there and showed me.