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What’s Driving California’s Mass Exodus?
- Thread starter john4surf
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People will just wallow in it, as long as it's 70 degrees in January, and 70 degrees in August (and no humidity)
They'll eat the homeless sh!t and dirty needles off the sidewalk to keep their little walled off slice of paradise.
They'll eat the homeless sh!t and dirty needles off the sidewalk to keep their little walled off slice of paradise.
It beats the alternative (Texas).
I drove over an hour one way yesterday, including through a supercell with a tornado in it (phone and radio going apeshit on I-95) to get the surf to go from knee-thigh to thigh-waist, the air from 60 to 72, and the water from 57 to 62.
Is that what you're doing?
I've lived here my entire life (save for 18 months) and never have I eaten sh!t or been bothered with dirty needles on the sidewalk.
If it's so bad, pull an ifall or Ogre and split.
There are definitely a few homeless folks wandering O'side these days. It's sad. And yes, there are a few needles here and there. The problem's not unique to CA, however, and I doubt Surfdog is ever actually inconvenience by it.
Not my 'hood at all. But ask the walled off urbanians living in SF and LA.
Seems they've documented it well.
Suburbia is still sheltered, but seeing increases each new year.
Dirty and polluting homeless camps in river and creek beds aren't even hassled anymore.
As long as it's out of sight. It's out of mind.
It starts in one slightly urbanized area, and grows out from there.
No, doesn't really "inconvenience" me so much. It's just sad our state has let it get to this point, and STILL not doing anything to prevent it.
CA local/state guv is accepting it as the price of paradise.
i did and i left - but not crazy enough to leave calif completely.
anyhow - eventually all the tech companies will go to texas and then texas will raise the taxes and then these people will bnitch and moan again, and then come back to CA
Where Austin has the advantage is more buildable land, cheaper construction costs and a more expedient process. Whereas California has the exact opposite of all of those. Which is great for aesthetics but bad for affordability. Most libs think that high rent is because developers and landlords are greedy, yet vote for politicians that drive the cost of new construction artificially high.
That said, when an area has a higher cost of living, that typically gets priced into salaries. I can imagine that places like Texas, Idaho, etc are struggling with that as buyers with deep pocket drive up costs while local salaries remain more or less the same, or at best respond very slowly.
North Dakota is nice.
I hear Appalachia is also a great place to avoid filth and dirty needles.
If you weren't a pussy, you'd reg Appy Pappy and help this thread out with some posts bitching about Californians relocating to your zone.
Duh, like homeless people are flocking into the deserts because that's where all the soup kitchens and flop houses are. Sheesh.
Tesla is opening a factory in Berlin. Escape CA regulations and taxes, pick back up a lot of labor regulations in Germany. 28 hour work week for auto-workers there. I guess it's all about balance.
I split in 1979. If there was a Stu on the streets then his mommy was pushing him in a stroller.
If surfing was your first priority at your age you wouldn’t be where you are. It was mine at that age so that’s why I’m where I’m at.
I think when I retire and I move I might go some where cheap, build a kick ass carver wave ramp and I kick ass home gym.
And good A/C and heating.
With HBO GO, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Apple+, I could live on mars with that stuff.
And good A/C and heating.
With HBO GO, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Apple+, I could live on mars with that stuff.
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