Remember How Great California Was? (Los Angeles, Torrance: buying a home, transfer, neighborhood)

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by Kevdawgg

You forgot to add Nevada and Colorado to the list. Pretty soon, Texas and Arizona would end up like that.

I have hope for those type of states. Remember, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were once thought of as a "blue wall". That didn't end up being true last year.

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by payutenyodagimas

how come Perry still came here and try to poach (with millions of subsidies/tax credits) companies to move their operations in Texas if they are doing so well?

Because we all know the employees who have jobs here absolutely, positively, DO NOT WANT TO MOVE TO TEXAS!

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by Perma Bear

Ones that like hospitable weather

LOL....so true.

Have spent time in TX and have seen the whole state, other than east TX it is butt ugly, flat and treeless for the most part.

It was 78 one day in Dallas and an ice storm the next day.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by davidt1

Reagan was President. I was young and living in Los Angeles, about five miles from downtown. Used to take the bus to the Cameo theater to watch movies. Education was really cheap, about 90% cheaper that it is today. Jobs were everywhere. You could quit one company, walked across the street, and found another job the same day.

I am better off financially today, but if I could relive those days, I would do it over and over again.

How quickly we forget....

"Today’s student aid crisis has its roots in the 1980s. In 1981, the Reagan administration, with a coalition of congressional Republicans and conservative Democrats, pushed through Congress a combination of tax- and budget-cutting measures. No federal program suffered deeper cuts than student aid. Spending on higher education was slashed by some 25 percent between 1980 and 1985. In raw dollar figures, cuts totaled $594 million in student assistance and $338 million in Pell grants. Students eligible for grant assistance freshmen year had to take out student loans to cover their second year. For middle-class families, eligibility was changed as well. Low-cost, low-interest, subsidized federal loans were limited to families with household incomes of less than $32,000, regardless of family size"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...=.0e887574e27a

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by Kevdawgg

Any long time California residents here remember how great California used to be when it was a red state? And how it used to be #1 in everything? Now it's been going down the toilet for a long time (You can thank Gray Davis for starting the decline). I'm going to be the Donald Trump of California. Make California Great Again.

Another thread just so you can bash California? I'm 70 & I was born in California and for all but 14 years of my life I have lived in the State, as did my parents. I loved it when I was a kid, when I was a young adult and I love California now.

Sorry you hate it but there is a solution for that... MOVE

[davidt1]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

How quickly we forget....

"Today’s student aid crisis has its roots in the 1980s. In 1981, the Reagan administration, with a coalition of congressional Republicans and conservative Democrats, pushed through Congress a combination of tax- and budget-cutting measures. No federal program suffered deeper cuts than student aid. Spending on higher education was slashed by some 25 percent between 1980 and 1985. In raw dollar figures, cuts totaled $594 million in student assistance and $338 million in Pell grants. Students eligible for grant assistance freshmen year had to take out student loans to cover their second year. For middle-class families, eligibility was changed as well. Low-cost, low-interest, subsidized federal loans were limited to families with household incomes of less than $32,000, regardless of family size"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...=.0e887574e27a

I had to debate whether or not to respond to yet another one of your inane posts. When I went to school, the cost was something like $3 a unit. Now it's something like $45 a unit. I discussed tuition, not financial aid.

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

Another thread just so you can bash California? I'm 70 & I was born in California and for all but 14 years of my life I have lived in the State, as did my parents. I loved it when I was a kid, when I was a young adult and I love California now.

Sorry you hate it but there is a solution for that... MOVE

Get's old doesn't it?

I don't even think that poster lives here. He posts under a few names, because he responded back to me on a comment I made, but it was under a different name. In another words, he screwed up and forgot to answer under the name on the thread I commented on.....LOL.

I find it odd that people who don't live in CA have such an obession with the state. If CA were a person it would be considered being a stalker.

If they don't like CA, that's their right. But why so much time and energry(I mean it's on a daily basis) discussing a place you don't even live and telling people what's wrong with the place? It makes it look like you resent CA for not having lived here, or maybe wanted to when they were younger and now have regrets they didn't try something when they were younger and had the chance.

I have a relative who doesn't like CA, and it came up when he visited for business once, we talk frequently on the phone and I can assure you we don't talk about how he didn't like CA......LOL. It's not normal to be so vocal about a place that really has no direct impact on them if they don't lve here.

Because it makes no sense to constantly bash a place you have never lived on a daily basis.

[Finper]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

Get's old doesn't it?

I don't even think that poster lives here. He posts under a few names, because he responded back to me on a comment I made, but it was under a different name. In another words, he screwed up and forgot to answer under the name on the thread I commented on.....LOL.

I find it odd that people who don't live in CA have such an obession with the state. If CA were a person it would be considered being a stalker.

If they don't like CA, that's their right. But why so much time and energry(I mean it's on a daily basis) discussing a place you don't even live and telling people what's wrong with the place? It makes it look like you resent CA for not having lived here, or maybe wanted to when they were younger and now have regrets they didn't try something when they were younger and had the chance.

I have a relative who doesn't like CA, and it came up when he visited for business once, we talk frequently on the phone and I can assure you we don't talk about how he didn't like CA......LOL. It's not normal to be so vocal about a place that really has no direct impact on them if they don't lve here.

Because it makes no sense to constantly bash a place you have never lived on a daily basis.

OMG your a piece of work what gets old is you BASHING Texas on every freakin post that's what gets old. Kettle meet pot

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by Finper

OMG your a piece of work what gets old is you BASHING Texas on every freakin post that's what gets old. Kettle meet pot

Do I start threads bashing TX? No, I do not. Do I go on the TX boards and tell them how awful their state is? No, I do not.

I have commented when people mention TX as an alternative to CA, that I don't care for the state and that I know people who left CA for TX and returned to CA.

Nice try, but not even close to someone who on a daily basis comments on how awful CA is.

Apples and oranges.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by davidt1

I had to debate whether or not to respond to yet another one of your inane posts. When I went to school, the cost was something like $3 a unit. Now it's something like $45 a unit. I discussed tuition, not financial aid.

It's certainly reasonable that you would take that away from that article and I should have been more clear, this is the part of the article that I was referencing:

"Spending on higher education was slashed by some 25 percent between 1980 and 1985"