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Most people are trying to get out of Cali and the SJW politics that infest it.
I'm a former Bronx resident living in California (Not Cali. No one calls it that here. Cali is in Colombia). Been here since the 80's. Although California is no longer the place it was - just as no place is what it was - I will stay in California. Although anything is possible, I currently have zero plans or desire of ever returning to the North East.
Sure, the cost of living in California is getting astronomically out of hand. Traffic in LA is horrendous. Fire season is a Mother F_cker. But hey, you take the bad with the good. For example, my job has been rock solid and stable since I entered my field 33 years ago. Winters are non-existent to mild at worse. It's nice having diverse topography within an hour's drive; i.e., from my location I can be at the beach, mountains, or desert in an hour. There's more, but I'll leave it there.
So long as I call California "home," I'll put up with Social Justice Crusaders, environmentalists, illegal immigrants, fires, and other unmentioned BS. Life is short. I prefer rolling with the waves instead of uselessly fighting them away. It is what it is.
I'm a former Bronx resident living in California (Not Cali. No one calls it that here. Cali is in Colombia). Been here since the 80's. Although California is no longer the place it was - just as no place is what it was - I will stay in California. Although anything is possible, I currently have zero plans or desire of ever returning to the North East.
Sure, the cost of living in California is getting astronomically out of hand. Traffic in LA is horrendous. Fire season is a Mother F_cker. But hey, you take the bad with the good. For example, my job has been rock solid and stable since I entered my field 33 years ago. Winters are non-existent to mild at worse. It's nice having diverse topography within an hour's drive; i.e., from my location I can be at the beach, mountains, or desert in an hour. There's more, but I'll leave it there.
So long as I call California "home," I'll put up with Social Justice Crusaders, environmentalists, illegal immigrants, fires, and other unmentioned BS. Life is short. I prefer rolling with the waves instead of uselessly fighting them away. It is what it is.
Thank you for that! Very irritating, like people who refer to San Francisco as "Frisco", just awful. I'm also a native New Yorker, raised my son in Northern California for over 20 years and recently moved back because I wanted to (semi) retire and without my previous paycheck, couldn't afford to keep living there. But I also couldn't wait to leave, not because of the SJW crowd (which I had to look up BTW-who comes up with this stuff??), but I am a city kid at heart, never been outdoorsy, and just never felt like I fit in. If I'd had the resources, I would have moved us back east a long time ago, but life happens, and now that my son is happily ensconced in LA (he loathes the traffic, too ), I am finally back home.
I'm a former Bronx resident living in California (Not Cali. No one calls it that here. Cali is in Colombia). Been here since the 80's. Although California is no longer the place it was - just as no place is what it was - I will stay in California. Although anything is possible, I currently have zero plans or desire of ever returning to the North East.
Sure, the cost of living in California is getting astronomically out of hand. Traffic in LA is horrendous. Fire season is a Mother F_cker. But hey, you take the bad with the good. For example, my job has been rock solid and stable since I entered my field 33 years ago. Winters are non-existent to mild at worse. It's nice having diverse topography within an hour's drive; i.e., from my location I can be at the beach, mountains, or desert in an hour. There's more, but I'll leave it there.
So long as I call California "home," I'll put up with Social Justice Crusaders, environmentalists, illegal immigrants, fires, and other unmentioned BS. Life is short. I prefer rolling with the waves instead of uselessly fighting them away. It is what it is.
CA and NY is just hanging on because the economic conditions allowed them to continue to run deficits and using taxes and bonds to pay for interests on loans instead of actually paying down their deficits. They can't cut their spending and both states are increasing spending everywhere.
One recession will wipe out all of the growth and just like the last recession where homes were going for 1/4 of the price in SoCal today it will hurt. Sanctuary cities benefits the rich because they get to use tax payer money to keep cheap labor local and all these liberals love cheap nannys and landscapers. The next recession the one that will get hurt the most will be the middle class who will get squeezed to a pulp in these high cost states that will drain the tax payers while the rich flee to the zero tax states.
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