'I'm done': Fed up with California, some conservatives look to Texas

[Faroth]

Shoulda paid more tax for better public transportation. Low tax, low service indeed.

Like paying more in California and still paying $20-$40 a day on toll roads? Yeah, we had a manager move from CA and that was his daily cost of commute. Alternative was paying the exorbitant housing costs in the city. Sold their average 3/2 house for a much larger one with I think around an acre of land... paid in full, all cash, and had money left over from what they got selling their home in CA. And this was around 8 years or so. I imagine prices have only gone up since.

So high tax, low service is the California answer? I'll take the reasonable cost of living myself.

[Crissi]

They don't have to worry about it. All the Californians are flooding Austin and turning it into another L.A. or San Francisco with way over market value housing costs, skyrocketing rent, and horrible horrible traffic.

Last I knew the big kerfuffle was turning all essentially necessary highways into toll roads and Austinites pushed back hard.

Austin has always had horrible traffic. Californians coming in hasn't changed that lol. Same with housing prices. They were getting expensive in the late 80's - early 90's too.

in terms of toll roads, the only thing I ever heard about was essentialy that toll road that goes around Austin. Life saver if you want to get to cities south of Austin without getting stuck in downtown traffic

[Elegiac]

Like paying more in California and still paying $20-$40 a day on toll roads? Yeah, we had a manager move from CA and that was his daily cost of commute. Alternative was paying the exorbitant housing costs in the city. Sold their average 3/2 house for a much larger one with I think around an acre of land... paid in full, all cash, and had money left over from what they got selling their home in CA. And this was around 8 years or so. I imagine prices have only gone up since.

So high tax, low service is the California answer? I'll take the reasonable cost of living myself.

California's problem is bad urban planning; it relies too much on automobiles as the primary mode of transportation, and now land is too expensive to do a mass expansion of the public transit network which would relieve congestion from the roads. Ideally cities like Austin and San Antonio would be future proofing by building transit networks, but hey. No tax money.

But as a Sydney born guy myself I have a hard time sympathising with complaints about tolls and housing price since that's been an issue in Australia for decades. Deal with it.

[Fojos]

Hmmm, I don't see anywhere in the OP where it says they are being kicked out. Maybe I am missing it.

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Let see.......India.......1,326,572,000 people.......
California.........39,250,017 people.......


Nope. Not quite the whole story.

Since when do you consider India a rich country? Learn to read.

[pathora44]

isnt huckleberry finn also mandatory reading in the US

that book literally has a character named "Nigger jim" in it, so i guess racism is fine but smoking is horrible?

Mark Twain was an avid abolitionist and was in no way a racist. His style of writing used terminology and dialect of the region for his dialogue. The N word was common place in the south during the time of Huckleberry Finn.

[Molis]

Bye Felicia
Dont let the door hit you on the way out
etc etc

Once you leave California it is almost impossible to move back.

I am good here. My community leans just enough right to be tolerable.

[Jotaux]

So if California loses a significant amount of their population to Texas does that mean that California will have more seats in the electoral college and Texas will have less?

[Noxx79]

Mark Twain was an avid abolitionist and was in no way a racist. His style of writing used terminology and dialect of the region for his dialogue. The N word was common place in the south during the time of Huckleberry Finn.

Don't bother, they show their blissful ignorance by not understanding context. Surprised they made it out of middle school.

[SoulForge]

Since when do you consider India a rich country? Learn to read.

India is two below California in the GDP rankings.

[shaunika123]

Mark Twain was an avid abolitionist and was in no way a racist. His style of writing used terminology and dialect of the region for his dialogue. The N word was common place in the south during the time of Huckleberry Finn.

i never said mark twain was a racist, much like how describing a character using drugs/smoking doesnt mean the author of that book advocates it.

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY POINT

and it flew over your head by a mile

[Fuiking]

They can try and stop it, but you can't stop liberalization without stopping the economic boom.

Not to mention housing prices are booming and are becoming a problem. We still have mandatory vaccinations if you want to go to school.

Your safe! so long it doesnt hit London , or Swiss levels you are safe with them housing prices (Jesus fuck, saw swiss housing prices for some cantons? 2.000.000 euros in house price for some which in my country would go between the 500k and 1.5 million at most :x