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Leaving Hotel California [California diaspora]
Orca
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Maybe you moved away for a job. Maybe you moved away for family. Maybe you moved away because you hate good weather.
Or maybe you're bemoaning the invasion of those wimps that put on a wool jacket in 50 degree weather, who complain endlessly about it not being summer year around.
Either way, this is the California emigration thread.
Or maybe you're bemoaning the invasion of those wimps that put on a wool jacket in 50 degree weather, who complain endlessly about it not being summer year around.
Either way, this is the California emigration thread.
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Mostly I miss the beach. And the mountains.
I am also offended by weather. My husband was born in California too but he thinks weather is cool. He doesn't understand my just, righteous indignation at having to check a weather report every morning. I have never in my life had to care so much about meteorology. And it's just wrong all the time anyway! More than once I've been out and oh, surprise storm! I got stuck in the bathroom of a Starbucks because the sirens went off while I was out with a friend and I didn't even know it was going to rain that day!
Oh. I always assumed that people hated us because of our (relative) wealth. When I was researching this area I read tons of bitching about how people from this area were having trouble buying homes because they were all getting snapped up by Californians selling modest houses at home and finding they could buy half a block with cash here. I am not one of those people (I honestly gave up on ever buying a house years ago) but it's still so weird to see so so many houses for sale for $200k, $250k... Basically anything less than half a million dollars seems like a steal still.
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Yes, to both things. Median here is still less than half of bay area, but it's caused a lot of stress for people. I'm sympathetic, but as a Californian, you understand that if you live in a cool place, other people will want to live there as well. It's the cost of having nice things.
Also, my work is such that only a handful of places have jobs for it,almost all of them being major metro. I could be the bay area, but its just not my jam.
I do not like tornadoes, though. They are the angry fingers of God, raking 'cross the countryside.
So. Fucking. Much.
When I got here, I had a small amount of anxiety. It wasn't until I figured out that it was because I couldn't see mountains in the distance that it passed.
What I really love about being here is that when there is a traffic incident (and there always is somewhere...) the local cops have to close down like 95% of the freeway for a car stuck on the shoulder.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Could you folks stop moving where I live and fucking up the local real estate market because you were able to sell a trailer on a 1/3 acre lot for $500k?
Thanks.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I have to say I find it funny that someone will ask "why do people not like it when Californians move to their city?" when just a few posts above this one someone explicitly recognizes that they are fucking over people when they move en masse to a place with a lower cost of living.
So I'm conflicted.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I live in a place without a massive influx of Calinfornia transplants and we have plenty of ethnic food restaurants owned by immigrants. I would rather have the drive through ME food place owned by people from the ME, the actual Latin food restaurants owned and ran by families from El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela etc. etc. than the "SoFloFo" fusion restaurants owned and run by celebrity chefs.
I recognize why it happens. I'm pointing out that it's funny to see "Why do people not like transplants?" and it be acknowledged that "We're fucking them over, but oh well it's their fault for being somewhere we want to be" in the same thread.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Edit- could someone repost that "CalExodus" plan?
Also I cannot tell, is the weather thing a joke, or is that a real actual circlin' of the gherkins over the cold and precipitation that I see going on
I started getting depression from no weather variance in Phoenix (always sunny). I can only imagine how bad not having seasons at all would be.
Missouri aka East Kansas.
I'm really worried that Brownbackistan is going to spread like a cancer throughout the midwest like it did to MO.
Brownback has really, really jacked Kansas up and is now blaming Obama.
Apparently your guy is doing the same crap, so, best of luck to you. Seriously.
That's not really what happened. No one moves end masses. Everyone moves individually for individual reasons. Also didn't say people were being fucked over, just that housing prices rise. Many other things are improved at the same time.
Californians have been used to people flooding their state for decades, to the point where owning a home there is damn near impossible. We take it as a compliment, but it can also push people out. If individuals decide they want to live somewhere else, people act like their fucking terrorists. Are they just supposed to be locked into their state? Are they supposed to intentionally choose somewhere shitty to live?
We left California largely to escape housing costs.
I understand the frustration that demand is driving up costs for everybody... but it is driving up costs for everybody and getting mad at your new middle class neighbors about it is crab bucket thinking.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.