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Notably, Texas fell from 4th to 8th place. I'm often lectured by conservatives on this forum that California should be more like Texas. If Texas is so great, why is it #8 on the list?
My guess would be that Texas isn't really into supporting the welfare class.
Texas may have been 4th on the list until all of the freeloaders figured out that state government wouldn't be buying into the welfare state mentality.
Want freebees? .. go to California
Want a job? .. go to Texas
I would like to live there, say back in the day. 1800's early 1900's. If you were going just by climate, beauty and sun, then yes, I would live there. Unfortunatley, the bad in CA out weighs the good. You can't live off of nice weather and a beach.
As I mentioned before, I lived there in the late 50's through '78. I remember driving out to Cucamonga with my dad and seeing all the wonderful vineyards, orange groves and strawberry fields. The weather was beautiful.
They only want to live in California because they have been told its the best place on earth, in movies, magazines, TV. They may have even visited once or twice, and decided it was better than their current residence.
If not for the current political/economic/social problems that are amplified in comparison to other parts of the country, it is a nice place to live.
Too bad it's not the 1950's when California was really a great place to have a life. Aerospace business was going crazy, the homes were attainable, and it wasn't so crowded.
Notably, Texas fell from 4th to 8th place. I'm often lectured by conservatives on this forum that California should be more like Texas. If Texas is so great, why is it #8 on the list?
Talk is cheap.
What are people actually doing? The answer to that is in the net out migration of US citizens from CA.
The state started regressing three decades ago when the Democrats systematilcally destroyed the public school system, a practice which they subsequently initiated nationwide.
Toss in treehugger-***-laude Governor Jerry Brown demolishing the state's prospects for growth when he took over in Suckramento in the late seventies (his father was primarily responsible built I-5 between Bakersfield & the SF Bay Area), and the state's been in a downhill spiral ever since.
The state started regressing three decades ago when the Democrats systematilcally destroyed the public school system, a practice which they subsequently initiated nationwide.
Toss in treehugger-***-laude Governor Jerry Brown demolishing the state's prospects for growth when he took over in Suckramento in the late seventies (his father was primarily responsible built I-5 between Bakersfield & the SF Bay Area), and the state's been in a downhill spiral ever since.
Not for those on welfare entitlements. California is a great place for them.
My guess would be that Texas isn't really into supporting the welfare class.
Texas may have been 4th on the list until all of the freeloaders figured out that state government wouldn't be buying into the welfare state mentality.
Want freebees? .. go to California
Want a job? .. go to Texas
It's just so insanely simple
Oh if life really 'Were' that simple but, it's not.
In your world those who wish to work go to Texas? Well that state should be flooded with people from all over the country who are out of work & all those who need food stamps should be rushing to California like they did during the gold rush......
HappyTexan is spot-on as well; I forgot to mention that when the blockheads in Sacramento passed a law many years ago prohibiting new residents from receiving California-level welfare checks (substantially higher thany anywhere else IIRC, one of those uber-liberal 'activist judges' shot it down.
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