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Well, since you responded as such I guess you must be one of them there anti-California boneheads fueled by jealousy and warped right-wing brain farts. Did I hurt your feelings? (I hear a tiny violin.) OP spends an enormous amount of time making ridiculous comparisons between California and his favorite hell-hole states...usually North Dakota. By making these comparisons he only shows how pitiful and low-life his preferred places are. Now he's turned on Oklahoma which would just as soon be left out of his personal crusade against California.
San Francisco is an anomaly that may some day soon reach a breaking point. It seems there are two classes of people. Homeless and those that can afford a home with an average $1.4 million median price. It is absurd when you think about it.
Well, since you responded as such I guess you must be one of them there anti-California boneheads fueled by jealousy and warped right-wing brain farts. Did I hurt your feelings? (I hear a tiny violin.) OP spends an enormous amount of time making ridiculous comparisons between California and his favorite hell-hole states...usually North Dakota. By making these comparisons he only shows how pitiful and low-life his preferred places are. Now he's turned on Oklahoma which would just as soon be left out of his personal crusade against California.
Nah, I'm just pointing out the truth, and you don't like being called on it.
If the OP didn't get under your skin, you would just ignore him...but you don't.
Jealousy has nothing to do with how I feel about California.
I'm not anti California, I'm anti what California has become to some extent...the road they have gone down in a number of ways policy wise, on a local level in some areas, and statewide.
I'm not a right winger, can't stand Trump (and some people don't think Trump is conservative...just that he panders to conservatives) and would never vote for him, and I'm not a Republican.
I'm a 5th generation SF Bay Area native whose roots go back before the Gold Rush. I lived in California for about 50 years, and explored just about everywhere I wanted to explore....much more enjoyable when there was much less traffic and fewer people overall....even considering that some heralded places are still remote and uncrowded.
I moved to the Houston metro for a relationship (that didn't work out). I might move somewhere else eventually to be closer to skiing, but I would never move back to California, and I can afford it. I don't agree with the positions that some levels of government take on certain issues, and with how some tax revenue is spent (more so than with any other state on both of those fronts) and I want as little of the tax revenue generated by me as possible to go to those ends. I still have some things to take care of in California, but I hope to have that wrapped up by next year.
If you are going to make claims, at the least provide credible evidence to back them up.
Interesting link.
I just filled up (under 2 hours ago) at the Walmart in zip code 77380, and I paid over 20 cents less per gallon than the low end of the average ($2.26 9/10) for Texas (which is in the cheapest tier on that map). I paid $2.03 9/10 per gallon.
The poster you responded to lives in Oklahoma City, so has the right to bash it if he doesn't like it
As someone who have lived in San Francisco and has rentals near OKC both have their good and bad points.
But the good thing about America is choice. If you want a high tax euro type of local San Francisco fits that bill. If you want affordable living with nice down to earth residents OKC works.
If you live in Canada or most of Europe you are stuck with one type of government with high taxes and oppressive government control.
As someone who have lived in San Francisco and has rentals near OKC both have their good and bad points.
But the good thing about America is choice. If you want a high tax euro type of local San Francisco fits that bill. If you want affordable living with nice down to earth residents OKC works.
If you live in Canada or most of Europe you are stuck with one type of government with high taxes and oppressive government control.
And this is why the states should have more power and the Federal government less.
Oh and lovecrowds California OPs are garbage. We need to remember that.
Same price here. It has to do with state gas taxes. I would be paying $2.13 now had Republicans not raise the gas tax by 3 cents.
It was so in the recent past, but I don't think Oklahoma can be held up any more as a good example of a far right Republican ruled state. In 2018, around a dozen incumbent Republican state legislators got thrown out of office, largely due to how poorly they were governing and not listening to constituents. Republicans were totally shocked. As a result, Republicans concluded they better start listening to the will of the voters, especially when it comes to better funding education and legalizing medical marijuana, among other issues. The 2018 election of a governor, a Republican, who never had anything to do with government, was a further reflection of unhappiness with the status quo after having already well experienced Republicans at the state capitol trying to run the state.
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Interesting link.
