Is anyone leaving California or wanting to leave?? (schools, income)

[jc76]

Originally Posted by trixie09

You cannot know, until you live in it for a few years, if you're going to be someone that gets SAD (seasonal affective disorder.) It exists and it's very real.

I have this. Every winter I get more and more depressed. Pills do nothing, sun lamps do nothing. Three doctors have have backed up my idea to move TO California. Plus I have hardly any family left. To me weather truly is everything.

[Brenda-by-the-sea]

Originally Posted by vmeyerw

yes my family anfd i are planning on moving to north dakota threre is alot of jobs there in the oil field ,my husband is a truck driver and there is a big demand for them and its good pay and good benefits .. we are getting tired of just getting by here and no benefits that we can afford he can get them thru his employer now but its cost 900 a month .. when we can go to north dakota and the employer pays for the whole family.. and we are just plain sick of it here its just so expensive to live here ..its just not worth it!

There's a reason why North Dakota has a hard time retaining residents who want to stay and work:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmHjj9Ey9Q

[Apple-iPad]

In my case, Sometime and somewhere I want to leave but still have to live.

[s0nginmyheart]

Originally Posted by trixie09

Here's the thing.. When you start hating on the place you're living, you can find a million reasons to hate it and find a million reasons to love this idea you have of a new place. You get to your new place, and for a few years it's like a honeymoon. It takes around four years to truly know if you'd made the right decision.

It's one thing if you're moving back home or to place you've lived before, but before you think you've found your utopia, consider renting in the new area for a year to see if it really fits after all. Many of use are leaving or left California (or other States) and left behind family, friends, and history. Once you settle into your new area, at least 70% of us will realize that the people we left behind were more important than taxes, or a bigger house, etc. Or we find our utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be.

This is kind of the same boat I'm in. I left Los Angeles in 2008 and moved to Chicago. A lot of things factored in with my move (without going into detail)... Chicago is a great city, but in retrospect I feel like "hey L.A. wasn't so bad"... heavily contemplating moving back later this year...

[DoberPup]

My reason for leaving California was totally economic -- spending decades in an industry that is all but completely performed for pennies in 3rd World countries. Situations and circumstances now keep me in Northern Nevada, but I always yearn to return to the state I was born and raised in because of the memories, family, attitudes, politics and beauty.

[NYSD1995]

We will eventually leave, but are not in a rush.

Quality of life in California for the honest taxpayer is deteriorating at a precipitous rate, unless something is done to balance the equation, we are gone. Arnold states that 150k taxpayers pay 50% of all taxes in a state with 38 million people.

[cl723]

For us, the grass is definitly "greener." We hated living in Cal. To expensive, high taxes, stupid laws, rude people, to many people....I could go on but I won`t.

[Brenda-by-the-sea]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

Arnold states that 150k taxpayers pay 50% of all taxes in a state with 38 million people.

This has nothing to do with California per se; it is a federal statistic. The top 1% of federal tax filers, pay 50% of federal taxes. California has about 15 million IRS accounts, therefore 1% of the state filers comes to 150,000. Put the distribution ratio is the same in every state.

[eureka1]

I have fantasies of moving elsewhere mostly stimulated by ads for cheap real estate. Every trip I make I spend time looking at housing. Bottom line is I haven't located any place where I would personally be better off,so I'll be here. I don't find the prevalence of liberals and Hispanics a problem at all.

[Sparklez_304]

ive lived in california all my life...except for a couple months in washington. i want to leave. all my family is here and everything...this place just loses its appeal. the people are mean, the taxes are high, the traffic is bad, the cost of living is almost impossible. for now im just biding my time until i can leave. and checking out a lot of far better possibilities.