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Old 07-24-2017, 01:44 PM
 
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Taimaishu, did a Texan steal your wife and bought her a McMansion out in the sticks which she preferred to the shack you were offering in the SFV? or even in San Pedro near the sea? So now you're wailing about strip malls, McMansions and other things some CAs who move might prefer over the beautiful weather here?

People have their preferences, you can't stop it. Someone might think all that you value about CA, including the liberal politics isn't worth the pricetag.

Learn to think in ways in which people have different preferences.
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Old 07-24-2017, 01:48 PM
 
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Yes great point , if you are an illegal alien then you get sympathy but if you happen to be an American you're a loser, uneducated etc .

There seems to unfortunately be a good percentage of the left that has little to no respect for this country .
While I admit that taking in the economic migrants of the country, Texas has some problems. Much like CA deciding to take in the economic migrants of the WORLD. Texas has infrastructure problems taking in so many migrants, there is more crime, traffic, and many of them lack the skills to fill all the professional jobs.

But at least the state is trying to make it better for many of these Americans. To keep the dream of being able to live and work in a place where COL meets wages. Relatively speaking of course.

Whenever I go back to Houston, I see a lot of the same problems LA has. A lot of growing problems I didn't recognize before and it's due to the huge influx of people. And yes many of these people are what CAs would call "failures", i.e. working class people.
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Old 07-24-2017, 05:33 PM
 
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Just wait another 20 years. All these things you and jm1982 seem to enjoy crying about CA for doing. Texas is going that direction.

Texas is BEGGING for the poor and the failures to move there by offering lower taxes. TX also has more of their population of Food Stamps and Welfare.
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Old 07-24-2017, 06:12 PM
 
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Lower taxes is practically irrelevant to people earning less than 40k a year. Poor people are moving there because rent and home prices are significantly lower.
So why are the rich moving to CA and not TX? Where lower taxes should be a nice draw.
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Old 07-24-2017, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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Yes great point , if you are an illegal alien then you get sympathy but if you happen to be an American you're a loser, uneducated etc .

There seems to unfortunately be a good percentage of the left that has little to no respect for this country .
Or we have no respect for people who moan with every keystroke they type.
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Old 07-24-2017, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Just wait another 20 years. All these things you and jm1982 seem to enjoy crying about CA for doing. Texas is going that direction.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. You forget how much of a role energy plays in Texas' economy and politics. Texas may become reddish purple like Arizona is now, but it will never become light blue even like Oregon much less dark blue like California. A Democrat whose views on energy and the environment could win Texas could not win California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii, and couldn't win New England and New York either. The big Dem money in CA would find their views anathema. Just like a Republican who could win California could not win Texas, Oklahoma, or the South.
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Old 07-24-2017, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Living rent free in your head
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Edison just keeps hiking its rates.
https://chaienergy.com/2016/12/29/so...increase-2017/
Ouch!

SMUD has eliminated tier rates:

Fixed infrastructure charge $20 month
Summer rates $0.1291 per kWh
Winter rates $0.1128 per kWh
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Old 07-24-2017, 07:30 PM
 
Location: 89434
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People realize there is California outside of the major cities right? Go move to Adelanto or Palmdale/Lancaster if you prefer Texas style living.
Why not move to Nevada, with no income tax or even Arizona with COL a fraction of California.
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Old 07-24-2017, 07:34 PM
 
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Ouch!

SMUD has eliminated tier rates:

Fixed infrastructure charge $20 month
Summer rates $0.1291 per kWh
Winter rates $0.1128 per kWh
Everything in CA goes up.
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Old 07-24-2017, 07:47 PM
 
Location: Living rent free in your head
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Everything in CA goes up.
everything everywhere goes up, but the difference is that SMUD which is publicly owned has 1 or 1.5% rate increases while PG&E increase rates by 5 or 10 times that...makes it a little hard to make the case for how efficient the 'free market' is when it comes to utilities.
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