So is good ole Texas still the promise land for Californians? (statistics, Levin)
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This snowstorm has lifted the veil on the state. Its been exposed and looks funny in the light. No power, no water, and bad politicians and business practices. Here's on mayor of a Texas town right here
Don't they teach people to spell, and proofread their work, in TX? I'd heard the schools weren't up to snuff, but that's pretty bad! Too many errors.
You need to do more research. Your whole comment is false. Overall COL is 60 points lower than San Diego. San Diego has a COL index of 177, Maine is 117. National average is 100. So while slightly over national average, it is lower than here by quite a bit. Maine is also one of the few states that splits their electoral votes. As with most places, the cities are blue but the country is red.
Sales tax is lower, income taxes are lower, property taxes are about a wash but you get much more for your money there. We are going from a 3 bed, 2.5 bath, 1k sq ft house on a typical suburban lot that will sell for close to 600k to a 6 bed, 5 bath, 5500 sq ft home on 24 acres for 450k. Our property taxes will be about the same for the new place as they are for our current one.
I was referring to your original comment, which was about Texas. I'm not talking about California.
You stated you chose not to relocated to Texas because it was turning blue and expensive. I pointed out that Maine, where you say you are moving to, it blue and more expensive than Texas.
Oh Christ. This is a record-setting, maybe once in a generation thing. Maybe once in a lifetime. Things aren’t designed around that.
This talk isn’t what I’d expected out of this whole thing.
Why is anybody comparing a fluke/non-normal thing to...anywhere else?
Or flip it all. Say this arctic air had settled over California. Would it have been any better?
Seriously? Are you implying, that a city or state authority would have issued a statement like that, if power had gone out? CA had the Enron debacle, but no one was accusing residents of being Socialist wusses.
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What nobody is understanding is that these once in 100 year events are becoming a whole lot more frequent.
California has major year around fires now. Texas got its big polar vortex freeze (so did Arkansas by the way). And lot more major hurricanes for coastal areas and tornadoes in places that didnt used to have many tornados. More tornados where they did have them.
Then there are the 500 year floods becoming ever more common.....
Climate change means MORE CATASTROPHIC WEATHER of all kinds.
Seriously? Are you implying, that a city of state authority would have issued a statement like that, if power had gone out? CA had the Enron debacle, but no one was accusing residents of being Socialist wusses.
Enron was a fraud case, not a weather case. Not terribly analogous.
What nobody is understanding is that these once in 100 year events are becoming a whole lot more frequent.
California has major year around fires now. Texas got its big polar vortex freeze (so did Arkansas by the way). And lot more major hurricanes for coastal areas and tornadoes in places that didnt used to have many tornados. More tornados where they did have them.
Then there are the 500 year floods becoming ever more common.....
Climate change means MORE CATASTROPHIC WEATHER of all kinds.
Very true. It seems to be the extremes. In Texas, that means freezes, floods, hurricanes and heat waves.
Here in CA, it is heat waves, droughts, fires and sometimes floods.
Net-net, global warming is causing our planet to be less livable. We've debated where the best place would be to ride out the worst of the effects....probably neither CA nor TX!
Climate change means MORE CATASTROPHIC WEATHER of all kinds.
The climate isn't changing. The weather is cyclical. Things move in phases. We are entering an period of increased tropical activity, so you get more hurricanes. California...believe it or not, is DESIGNED to burn! The plants use fire to propagate themselves. It's more of an issue because people are moving into those areas more prone to burning.
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I remember back over the Summer when California was struggling with a terrible wildfire outbreak and Texas was smirking about our demise. They made nasty comments about California having the gall to ask then-President Trump for federal aide. They have made fun of California's wind-induced rolling blackouts, and used it as a means to poach business from us. They celebrated when they got Oracle in Austin (although, the joke's on them with that one--they just don't know it) and childishly used it to stick their sausage-shaped finger in California's eye.
Now, it seems, one solitary ice storm has brought the entire state of Texas to its knees. I don't relish seeing them languish here, yet, I can't help but feel a bit of schadenfreude either.
Again, let me remind you how they smiled and smirked when our fire season had us at the mercy of Donald Trump, and they used it to diminish us in the eyes of the rest of the nation while propping themselves up as some beacon of paradise where everything is better.
Who the **** is “they”? Certainly you’re not being so ridiculous as to say the whole state was somehow enjoying California’s suffering because of the wildfires because that isn’t slightly true. Almost everyone here was sympathetic. Sure there are some a$$holes here but those exist everywhere. Just look at the OP of this thread. He’s enjoying our suffering and you certainly appear to be too.
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Seriously? Are you implying, that a city or state authority would have issued a statement like that, if power had gone out? CA had the Enron debacle, but no one was accusing residents of being Socialist wusses.
Again, they mayor of an isolated West Texas backwater is NOT the spokesperson for the state.
Oh Christ. This is a record-setting, maybe once in a generation thing. Maybe once in a lifetime. Things aren’t designed around that.
This talk isn’t what I’d expected out of this whole thing.
Why is anybody comparing a fluke/non-normal thing to...anywhere else?
How is it a fluke?
Biden signed an anti-warming law on January 27, and it's already working.
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