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Offline 1K3

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« on: March 26, 2007, 07:06:58 PM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17791351/page/2/

Many people from California move to other Western states to...

- Get out of apartment and buy a house
- Sell that 1-bed/1-bath house that costs $500,000 and move to a state where you can get a mansion for that price.

To sum it up, people in other states are fed up with Calis because...

("Damn Californians")

"They move yet they bring their California-style politics"
"They drive the housing market waay up (or down)"
(...)

I live in Las Vegas.  I must say Vegas is becoming the suburb of Los Angeles... fast.
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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2007, 07:20:18 PM »
Ha!

We have that same problem in Oregon.  I live in Bend, what was once a nice, small town in the high desert not far from the slopes of Mt. Bachelor.  A few years ago several developers moved in and started buying up property and advertised the town as one of the primo recreation spots in the Pacific Northwest.

Now there's thousands of little cracker-box houses with California-licensed cars parked in front of them.  Selling for over $300 grand!!  Of course, all of them on a postage-stamp size property parcel.

Crime's up.  Especially in the schools here (alcohol and substance abuse).  Traffic is becomming a nightmare.  Parents are now not allowed to spank their kids; the granola invaders are getting laws passes about our dogs and guns as fast as they can lobby the politicians.  Our river is now a no-alcohol zone; before it was so much fun to party on the Dechutes!!  Every time I turn around there's some sort of new 'initiative' trying to be passed to aid the unemployed and increase the minimum wage.  I own a business (a tanning salon...) with my wife and it's virtually impossible to find decent help that will occasionally show up on time and not under the influence.  My gawd...they even asked[/b] for a tax increase, something the locals, thank goodness, squashed before it got too far.

I'm praying for an extreme winter with snow and many sub-zero days.  Last time that happened the amount of 'for sale' signs on new property was very refreshing....
« Last Edit: March 26, 2007, 07:25:32 PM by Warspawn »
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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2007, 07:29:33 PM »
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I live in Las Vegas.  I must say Vegas is becoming the suburb of Los Angeles... fast.


So pray to the Lord, for Californians who like to spend their $$$ in Vegas, Amen!
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2007, 07:36:02 PM »
When you vote really left, your voting californian.
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2007, 07:55:37 PM »
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Ha!

We have that same problem in Oregon.  I live in Bend, what was once a nice, small town in the high desert not far from the slopes of Mt. Bachelor.  A few years ago several developers moved in and started buying up property and advertised the town as one of the primo recreation spots in the Pacific Northwest.

Now there's thousands of little cracker-box houses with California-licensed cars parked in front of them.  Selling for over $300 grand!!  Of course, all of them on a postage-stamp size property parcel.

Crime's up.  Especially in the schools here (alcohol and substance abuse).  Traffic is becomming a nightmare.  Parents are now not allowed to spank their kids; the granola invaders are getting laws passes about our dogs and guns as fast as they can lobby the politicians.  Our river is now a no-alcohol zone; before it was so much fun to party on the Dechutes!!  Every time I turn around there's some sort of new 'initiative' trying to be passed to aid the unemployed and increase the minimum wage.  I own a business (a tanning salon...) with my wife and it's virtually impossible to find decent help that will occasionally show up on time and not under the influence.  My gawd...they even asked for a tax increase, something the locals, thank goodness, squashed before it got too far.

I'm praying for an extreme winter with snow and many sub-zero days.  Last time that happened the amount of 'for sale' signs on new property was very refreshing.... [/B]




Same for AZ. as well. he cookie cutter houses on tiny lots thanks to the developers that came into town.  :(
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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2007, 08:05:20 PM »
Montana has been poisoned by Kalifornia developers beginning in the late 70's.  They tried invading Washington but the rain drove half of them back south. (thankfully) I used to have a bumper sticker that said "We don't give a DAMN how they do it in California".

I am dead serious when I can tell if someone was born and raised in Southern California within the first 2 minutes of a conversation. (young ones anyway...)
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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2007, 08:26:51 PM »
On this coast, the New York developers buy up coastal property....then the tax rate (since this is tax-hike-paradise) goes skyward.  So those fishermen/lobsterman find that their cute, coastal home is sitting on very, very valuable property and cant afford the taxes.

Thankfully the harsh winters send em home most of the year.  But you can always tell when the beautiful people are "back".  Last year, they tried to push for a "No construction from May to Sept" request....because gawsh, ordinary people building was just awful on their pretty ears.  Needless to say, the local City Council shot that down.

So while we dont have your mass exodus, we do have the "utopians" from the city crawling here, telling us heavens how to live.
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« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2007, 08:31:09 PM »
Aw guys....the Californians are just moving to the wilderness to guard it from the evil loggers, hunters, and developers.

"This forest is really gnarly dude!  Let's build some condos and an artificial beach and stay forever!"
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2007, 08:55:04 PM »
me thinks your ire is more jealousy than anything else.  






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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2007, 09:57:53 PM »
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me thinks your ire is more jealousy than anything else.  





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Why do I not find it surprising at all to see the California state flag has what appears to be a communist red star and a russian bear?

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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2007, 10:10:19 PM »
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Why do I not find it surprising at all to see the California state flag has what appears to be a communist red star and a russian bear?

:D


We are slowly taking over; one state at a time. Pay back for destroying USSR goverment with likes of drunken guy with bird **** on forehead. :p
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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2007, 10:58:16 PM »
Soon we will all be Californicated.
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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2007, 11:39:33 PM »
I know that houses that 20 years ago commonly sold here for 30K to 40K are now around 150K to 175K  Friggin' robbery!
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« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2007, 12:32:03 AM »
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I know that houses that 20 years ago commonly sold here for 30K to 40K are now around 150K to 175K  Friggin' robbery!


Even the most mediocre houses in San Francisco now costs above $500,000.
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« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2007, 12:54:38 AM »
So you blame the Californians for capitalism? That's a new one! *cough* whiners *cough*
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