Don't Californicate My Texas (Dallas, Austin: house, transfer, luxury)

[lpc123]

I always say please and thank you.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

CA transplant living in Houston.

People dont change just because they move to a different state. Thats all there is to it.

[m1a1mg]

We have a lot of Cali transplants in our neighborhood. They seem to start every conversation with, "In California we...."

[G Grasshopper]

Originally Posted by m1a1mg

We have a lot of Cali transplants in our neighborhood. They seem to start every conversation with, "In California we...."

Right. Just more prejudice and name calling. I NEVER started any statement with that when I lived in TX - not even when talking to a fellow Californian.

[cBach]

Originally Posted by lpc123

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

What if I'm a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan?

[Ultrarunner]

Originally Posted by StealthRabbit

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)

Was not my plan but turned out to be what I did...

Anyone getting an 80% increase in Property Tax has to find it sobering.... at least I sure did and it made me reevaluate the wisdom of cutting California ties...

Washington is now $1000 a month... California is $250 a month... who would have thought

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by 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.

You're positive that car with California plates wasn't a rental?

[TexasHorseLady]

One wonders at the people that are defending moving to one place and trying to turn it into where it came from, whether that be California to Texas or even Texas to California (though, oddly enough, I've never heard of the latter, or anyone trying to turn California into Colorado or Oregon or Washington State or any of the other states where this issue pops up, while I have heard the reverse often).

Never have understood that impulse, myself - it's like the citiots who move from the city to the country and then complain because the country isn't the city and try to turn it into the city. Why move at all if you don't want something different from where you were. And if it's for a job, stop a moment and consider just why it is that the job is not available in the place you find so perfect and IS available in the place you want to turn into a copy of the place you moved from and what that might say about the wisdom of doing that.

[timtemtym]

Interestingly enough, when I taught in Austin back in the early 2000's, I had one year where nearly half my class was born in California.

That's the interesting thing about high transplant states like California and Texas. You get people who move in and within a few months/years start to offer advice to natives about why this new state should be more like (in some ways) their old state. I'm certainly guilty of that here. I've brought up some of the things I miss about Texas and thought California should change. It's a form of home-sickness probably. But eventually I stopped and now I am used to things here.

Since the OP offers no specifics on what he/she means by Californicating Texas, it's a little hard to pin down what this means from that perspective. I'd assume it's the stereotypes of high housing cost, traffic, and "liberal policies." Austin is a growing and dynamic city and it will go where it's citizens feel it should.

[m1a1mg]

Originally Posted by G Grasshopper

Right. Just more prejudice and name calling. I NEVER started any statement with that when I lived in TX - not even when talking to a fellow Californian.

Well garsh, that's absolute evidence isn't it.