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Old 04-10-2013, 06:21 PM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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Sorry friend, but this is a nonsensical post. In any urban area these issues will affect you.
Then don't live in an urban area. Too many people there, already.
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Old 04-10-2013, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Westminster, CO
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Then don't live in an urban area. Too many people there, already.
Easier said than done. People and prices are moving farther out. I was astonished to see home prices over 300K in Blythe, CA.
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Old 04-11-2013, 10:26 AM
 
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Good Afternoon, I am in the process of moving to California, and I have to admit I am alittle scared. However this has been a dream of mine for quite sometime. I believe life is what you make it and I am very blessed to have family there. I am a Hair Stylist I can pretty much find a job anywhere, one I get my California license this should be only 9 more months. I will just apply for Reproscity. So this is where it gets scary. I hear how people are moving away from there because of such a bad economy. Well I have the ability to work and do hair, hopefully that will be enough. If anyone has any helpful hints to make my move any easier or why I shouldn't, please feel free to share. I do have a ton of family in which I adore my family so blessed they are absoltely wonderful. Also I am not cold weather fan. I presently live in Minnesota with no family except my oldest son who wants out of the cold bad as I do. I am waiting to see if I qualify for Unemployment which would allow me to move with an income to get my new start. I am pretty sure I am going to get. I am house sitting for my Auntie in mid July and she will paid for my ticket out there. I just though this would be a great opportunity for me to stay for good. I need a new start and ready to leave my current live conditions which are not ideal. I really do want so bad to move and be close to family, and my youngest who is in the Marine Corp. PLEASE SHARE IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS
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Old 04-11-2013, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Waterworld
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Good Afternoon, I am in the process of moving to California, and I have to admit I am alittle scared. However this has been a dream of mine for quite sometime. I believe life is what you make it and I am very blessed to have family there. I am a Hair Stylist I can pretty much find a job anywhere, one I get my California license this should be only 9 more months. I will just apply for Reproscity. So this is where it gets scary. I hear how people are moving away from there because of such a bad economy. Well I have the ability to work and do hair, hopefully that will be enough. If anyone has any helpful hints to make my move any easier or why I shouldn't, please feel free to share. I do have a ton of family in which I adore my family so blessed they are absoltely wonderful. Also I am not cold weather fan. I presently live in Minnesota with no family except my oldest son who wants out of the cold bad as I do. I am waiting to see if I qualify for Unemployment which would allow me to move with an income to get my new start. I am pretty sure I am going to get. I am house sitting for my Auntie in mid July and she will paid for my ticket out there. I just though this would be a great opportunity for me to stay for good. I need a new start and ready to leave my current live conditions which are not ideal. I really do want so bad to move and be close to family, and my youngest who is in the Marine Corp. PLEASE SHARE IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS
Well it helps that you have family there that can probably help you if you get into a low point, but from the sound of it your kids are all grown now correct? If so then it won't be as hard for you to live if you are just paying for yourself, and if you have a S/O, do they have a job or will they be trying to get one as well?

A lot of the people that are moving stating bad economic conditions are people with families from my experience. Which I can't fault them for moving and trying to provide the best for their family if they cannot accomplish it in California.
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Old 04-16-2013, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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California could recover even more if they rounded up all their anti-development Nimby's and exiled them, for 10 years, to Catalina Island or the Channel Islands, and laid out the red carpets to our big national housing developers!

Lots of idle cranes sitting around Las Vegas here!

When I read of Santa Monicans opposing the idea of a developer building an iconic 21 story high rise on their precious shoreline there, first high rise since 1970, it's time to round up those Nimby's, banish them to the Channel Islands and let California fully recover!
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Old 04-16-2013, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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You do have a point. A lack of highrises/high density housing i'm sure contributes to the high prices too (less supply) ..plus massive building would make the unemployment rate lower than the 10%+ it is now.

There are just some people that are anti-development no matter what the development is...Hard to change their minds.
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Old 04-16-2013, 11:17 PM
 
Location: On the water.
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California could recover even more if they rounded up all their anti-development Nimby's and exiled them, for 10 years, to Catalina Island or the Channel Islands, and laid out the red carpets to our big national housing developers!

Lots of idle cranes sitting around Las Vegas here!

When I read of Santa Monicans opposing the idea of a developer building an iconic 21 story high rise on their precious shoreline there, first high rise since 1970, it's time to round up those Nimby's, banish them to the Channel Islands and let California fully recover!
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You do have a point. A lack of highrises/high density housing i'm sure contributes to the high prices too (less supply) ..plus massive building would make the unemployment rate lower than the 10%+ it is now.

There are just some people that are anti-development no matter what the development is...Hard to change their minds.
I repeat myself:
Here's just what California needs. More growth. The nation's most populated state with the #1 economy (9th in the world) would then become even more crammed and bursting at the seams with millions more people (and their cars) to fit into soaring coastal real estate markets, placing an increasingly astounding burden on an already overburdened water supply and power grid.

Good idea.

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey
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