I want to say “fine, California is better off without them”, but I’m sure there are some people who are forced to move for economic reasons. But then again, why are they choosing those shitholes?
Tax burden is roughly equivalent to California, it’s just hidden in ways these idiots don’t realize before they move because all they see is “NO INCOME TAX.” They don’t realize those relatively cheap homes come with preposterously high property taxes that would get you woodchippered if you tried to raise them to this level in California (4-5x higher). Well okay but your home was still cheaper and it’s bigger except, by the way, you’re now making significantly less money and you knew that going in. Right? You DID account for that, didn’t you? Food isn’t really less expensive. Toll roads are fucking everywhere. Gas may be less expensive but everything is farther away and if you want to save money by taking public transport you’re fucked unless you live in Dallas because it’s the only city in this state that has something resembling a fully functional system (and it’s still utter shit compared to LA, Seattle, Boston, DC, Chicago, and even fucking Atlanta). Also your house has foundation problems because the soil in Texas is made mostly of moisture with some dirt holding hands in between.
On top of that you’re constantly dodging tornadoes, you’re surrounded by people far more racist than your “my Mexican neighbors play loud music sometimes and I don’t like it” could ever comprehend, a trip to any large public area will guarantee you’re in the midst of random assholes with guns on their hips, the government is trying to defund public education (and you can be fucking CERTAIN your property taxes won’t fucking go down), the government is such shit that it rejected improvements to Medicaid it wouldn’t even have to fucking pay for, abortion is basically illegal, and our cops will in fact just let you and your children be murdered rather than do their jobs. So at least you’ll feel right at home on that point.
Texas is shit. It’s expensive shit. If it’s actually cheaper for you then chances are good your children were already in private schools, you utilized no public services, and you were already raking in $500k or more a year. THEN you might find things easier because this state was designed to kowtow to your 1% ass.
Otherwise, move literally anywhere else. Texas is the perfect storm of dick in the ass and no reacharound.
As someone stuck in Oklahoma I concur but who fuck to can afford to live in California? Look at the fucking homeless population and you wonder why we aren’t banging at the door.
I want to say “fine, California is better off without them”, but I’m sure there are some people who are forced to move for economic reasons. But then again, why are they choosing those shitholes?
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There is nothing cheap about Texas.
Tax burden is roughly equivalent to California, it’s just hidden in ways these idiots don’t realize before they move because all they see is “NO INCOME TAX.” They don’t realize those relatively cheap homes come with preposterously high property taxes that would get you woodchippered if you tried to raise them to this level in California (4-5x higher). Well okay but your home was still cheaper and it’s bigger except, by the way, you’re now making significantly less money and you knew that going in. Right? You DID account for that, didn’t you? Food isn’t really less expensive. Toll roads are fucking everywhere. Gas may be less expensive but everything is farther away and if you want to save money by taking public transport you’re fucked unless you live in Dallas because it’s the only city in this state that has something resembling a fully functional system (and it’s still utter shit compared to LA, Seattle, Boston, DC, Chicago, and even fucking Atlanta). Also your house has foundation problems because the soil in Texas is made mostly of moisture with some dirt holding hands in between.
On top of that you’re constantly dodging tornadoes, you’re surrounded by people far more racist than your “my Mexican neighbors play loud music sometimes and I don’t like it” could ever comprehend, a trip to any large public area will guarantee you’re in the midst of random assholes with guns on their hips, the government is trying to defund public education (and you can be fucking CERTAIN your property taxes won’t fucking go down), the government is such shit that it rejected improvements to Medicaid it wouldn’t even have to fucking pay for, abortion is basically illegal, and our cops will in fact just let you and your children be murdered rather than do their jobs. So at least you’ll feel right at home on that point.
Texas is shit. It’s expensive shit. If it’s actually cheaper for you then chances are good your children were already in private schools, you utilized no public services, and you were already raking in $500k or more a year. THEN you might find things easier because this state was designed to kowtow to your 1% ass.
Otherwise, move literally anywhere else. Texas is the perfect storm of dick in the ass and no reacharound.
Yeah ask anyone that lives in Oklahoma.
As someone stuck in Oklahoma I concur but who fuck to can afford to live in California? Look at the fucking homeless population and you wonder why we aren’t banging at the door.
Yeah, but there are other cheap places to live that aren’t quite as shitty.
It’s almost 1:1 people moving out and in. It’s primarily chasing jobs, which is just part of life.
Many of those that move out are conservative and want to be with their kind.
In 2018, native Texans voted for Beto 51-40 and people who moved here voted for Cruz 57-42.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/11/09/native-texans-voted-for-native-texan-beto-o-rourke-transplants-went-for-ted-cruz-exit-poll-shows/