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View Poll Results: If you were given $300,000 for a home would you take it and move to TX or CA?
I would move to Texas 40 44.94%
I would move to California 28 31.46%
Neither 21 23.60%
Voters: 89. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-23-2007, 06:50 PM
 
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Originally Posted by STUDFISH View Post
Problems with Texas-

No Beach
We got the gulf of Me-hi-ko

No Comparision in Mexican Food to California
Agree to that
No Mountains
We got hills besides mountains are hard on the engine and harder on the brakes when going down.
Humid Summers
Only on the gulf coast and Houston. Anywhere else is pretty dry.
MOSQUITOES!Yes on the gulf coast there are but not where I am at.

B]No Beach[/b]
We got the gulf of Me-hi-ko

No Comparision in Mexican Food to California
Agree to that
No Mountains
We got hills besides mountains are hard on the engine and harder on the brakes when going down.
Humid Summers
Only on the gulf coast and Houston. Anywhere else is pretty dry.
MOSQUITOES!Yes on the gulf coast there are but not where I am at.

 
Old 04-23-2007, 06:54 PM
 
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WoW!! Looks like Texas is winning the poll!!
 
Old 04-23-2007, 06:54 PM
 
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Originally Posted by STUDFISH View Post
Problems with Texas-

No Beach
No Comparision in Mexican Food to California
No Mountains
Humid Summers
MOSQUITOES!
Depends where you are, if you are on the coast you have beaches in TX
There are hills, nice, but not mountains (don't do much boarding these days so that is okay by me).
Summers are not too bad North.
And mosquitoes are no worse than the coastal areas here in CA.

What I am looking forward to, is:
Less traffic
Room to spread out
Having neighbors an acre away instead a foot away
Tex-Mex food...I love it!!!

Again, to each his own
MBG
 
Old 04-23-2007, 06:54 PM
 
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Income tax in Texas $0.00

DMV fees, much lower, so is auto insurance, so are utilities. Most of your property taxes in Texas go to the schools, and therefore the schools are far better than California's.
Cost of living including all the property taxes in Texas way lower than Ca.


MBG
You got me there MBG. I enjoy a quality of life here in Texas that I could not have had in California.
 
Old 04-23-2007, 06:56 PM
 
Location: From Sea to Shining Sea
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Navshirereeve, we posted the same thing!!
MBG
 
Old 04-23-2007, 06:58 PM
 
Location: From Sea to Shining Sea
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You got me there MBG. I enjoy a quality of life here in Texas that I could not have had in California.
I am so looking forward to our move!! I just can't tell you.
I don't regret my time here in CA, not one bit, but it is time for a Beautiful Goodbye.
MBG
 
Old 04-23-2007, 09:49 PM
 
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I am so looking forward to our move!! I just can't tell you.
I don't regret my time here in CA, not one bit, but it is time for a Beautiful Goodbye.
MBG
When I lived in California, I never thought that in a million years that I would move to TX. But when the military transferred me to the east coast, once I retired we knew that we couldnt afford to go back to Ca
 
Old 04-24-2007, 12:03 AM
 
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With $300,000 you can still be able to buy a home in some parts of the Central Valley of CA,but in TX you can get a Larger Home and Property for that same amount.
 
Old 04-26-2007, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Not tied down... maybe later! *rawr*
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Born and raised in Southern California all my life. We're looking to move out now. Sell our gorgeous home on acerage to some idiot that'll pay top dollar for it, buy a home on more acerage, paid in full and retire (and we're not even 40 yet).
Sorry, but having lived here all my life and seen morons accepting the higher prices California asks for everything, we're happy to leave. We also happen to LOVE the reputation Texas has.... the more Texans can perpetuate the myths, the better (means less people moving there)!
With the possibilities that are out there for us, you can keep the traffic, the nasty neighbors who's dog won't **** and they don't care, rude children who's parents think they're special just 'cuz they're breathing and we should all bow down when their kid enters a room (FWIW, your kids aren't special... they're just your kids.), houses so close you can hear everything going on next door, idiots who are willing to get into 10 yr. interest only loan to pay for a pathetic excuse for a house (great money management there folks!), a saturated job market, the nice air (that's a joke, BTW), the crime.....

This list could go on.

Sorry, but just because it doesn't rain much here doesn't accomodate for all the other crap that goes on here. It just means that when it does rain, the news will spend 20 minutes reporting on "Storm Watch" and then in a month you'll be rationing water due to a drought.
 
Old 04-26-2007, 04:27 PM
 
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I can fly out of Dallas and be anywhere in SoCal (depending on the airport) faster than Californians can drive from one to another.
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