Being invaded by California
08-23-21, 06:14 PM
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Hondo, If them Californians are really coming like that, I’d put up walls with those towers that have machine guns in them...
08-23-21, 06:35 PM
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Two years, two months, and change and I'm OUT OF CA! Can't wait.
I've put my son on notice that he has that much time to find his own place to live, or come with me...somewhere. Where I go is second to getting out.
I've put my son on notice that he has that much time to find his own place to live, or come with me...somewhere. Where I go is second to getting out.
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08-23-21, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by 50PlusCycling
Better get rubber boots with steel soles to protect you from poop and used syringes on the sidewalks.
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08-23-21, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by tyrion
We're coming and we're bringing our pot with us. (We'll trade pot for smoked brisket)
08-23-21, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by DiabloScott
Once we succeed in overthrowing your oppressive regime and outlaw guns and bacon, we'll be lauded as heroes by the Texan peoples
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Originally Posted by surveyor6
The surfers will be dissapointed. South facing beaches don't provide very big waves.
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08-23-21, 08:21 PM
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All I can say is people don't move out of California because of the weather...
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08-23-21, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jack pot
anxiously awaiting the green liberation
08-23-21, 10:28 PM
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anecdote != reality
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-evidence-myth
it's also laughable what a disproportionate percentage of funding for new companies is focused on california, and particularly the bay area:
it is true that the pandemic saw fairly sudden migration within california - in particular from san francisco to the rest of the bay area or sacramento, etc. and now they're coming back.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-evidence-myth
it's also laughable what a disproportionate percentage of funding for new companies is focused on california, and particularly the bay area:
It also doesn’t seem like moneyed Californians are decamping en masse, nor are big investors. “There is no evidence of ‘millionaire flight’ from California,” researchers said, pointing out that “California’s economy attracts as much venture capital as all other states combined”.
The analysis showed that California’s portion of venture capital money was 48%, down a bit but in keeping with typical year-to-year changes, but the state continued to eclipse its oft-discussed competitors.
From 1995 to 2005, New York and Texas each got approximately 6% of all US venture capital funding. New York’s share doubled to 12% by 2020, while Texas’s portion dropped to 3%.
During the first quarter of 2021, New York had 15% of US venture capital money, Texas had 2%, and Florida landed 2%.
The analysis showed that California’s portion of venture capital money was 48%, down a bit but in keeping with typical year-to-year changes, but the state continued to eclipse its oft-discussed competitors.
From 1995 to 2005, New York and Texas each got approximately 6% of all US venture capital funding. New York’s share doubled to 12% by 2020, while Texas’s portion dropped to 3%.
During the first quarter of 2021, New York had 15% of US venture capital money, Texas had 2%, and Florida landed 2%.
08-23-21, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Rage
Hondo, If them Californians are really coming like that, I’d put up walls with those towers that have machine guns in them...
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08-23-21, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Hondo Gravel
That is reserved for Oklahoma
Some of those ranches way the heck out there in the desert - the kind where you see the gateway over a lane that disappears into the cactus - those folks' connection with the outside world is pretty tenuous. I think any Californian who ventured out that way might just blow away in the next duststorm.
08-23-21, 11:31 PM
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sure...prices are high in california. factor in the weather/lack of humidity and nearly zero insects/bugs into the livability index.
how much is that in terms of cashish?
how much is that in terms of cashish?
08-24-21, 02:23 AM
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Originally Posted by surveyor6
It’s like the “Grapes of Wrath” in reverse.
08-24-21, 02:51 AM
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Originally Posted by mschwett
anecdote != reality
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08-24-21, 11:53 PM
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Originally Posted by GhostRider62
Texas has cattle, California has lotta hat.
08-25-21, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Nessism
Two years, two months, and change and I'm OUT OF CA! Can't wait.
I've put my son on notice that he has that much time to find his own place to live, or come with me...somewhere. Where I go is second to getting out.
I've put my son on notice that he has that much time to find his own place to live, or come with me...somewhere. Where I go is second to getting out.
08-25-21, 05:00 AM
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Decades ago, in Colorado, I recall seeing a bumper sticker: "Don't Californicate Colorado." They knew it then, the risks. And today's what they've gotten in return for the mass exodus, where the nastier Nanny-stateisms and sensibilities were brought along for the ride.
I suspect Texas will be a harder "sell," along those lines. But it's probably inevitable, if enough with mashed sensibilities come and bring their mental baggage.
Lived there. Escaped. Have seen it from both sides of the gate. Wish it were different, beautiful place as much of it is.
I suspect Texas will be a harder "sell," along those lines. But it's probably inevitable, if enough with mashed sensibilities come and bring their mental baggage.
Lived there. Escaped. Have seen it from both sides of the gate. Wish it were different, beautiful place as much of it is.
08-25-21, 10:20 AM
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I think it's a benefit to get the people who move because they're being relocated by the workplace. It's the people leaving with a grudge that make Californians look bad. Either way, I'm not sure why other states want to encourage their population growth. It's probably the biggest problem we have here.
08-25-21, 10:32 AM
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We've deployed our Navy to protect us from Californians.. and we won!
Arizona Navy Deployed
“The Arizona Navy was a mighty force of two ships," said John Larsen Southard, a local historian. "And they were used to patrol the river and patrol the Parker Dam construction site to ensure that those willy Californians didn’t succeed in building Parker Dam and they’re not taking therefore, Colorado River.”
It was 40 riflemen and 20 machine gunners lined up along the Colorado River bank. A reconnaissance mission to make sure construction did not happen on Arizona’s side of the river. It was a show of force...
[It] did cause Secretary of the Interior Ickes to delay construction of the dam, and in fact when dam construction was resumed it was allowed to resume, because Arizona had won a project, an irrigation project to be sponsored by the federal government
It was 40 riflemen and 20 machine gunners lined up along the Colorado River bank. A reconnaissance mission to make sure construction did not happen on Arizona’s side of the river. It was a show of force...
[It] did cause Secretary of the Interior Ickes to delay construction of the dam, and in fact when dam construction was resumed it was allowed to resume, because Arizona had won a project, an irrigation project to be sponsored by the federal government
08-25-21, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by curbtender
I think it's a benefit to get the people who move because they're being relocated by the workplace. It's the people leaving with a grudge that make Californians look bad. Either way, I'm not sure why other states want to encourage their population growth. It's probably the biggest problem we have here.
