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12-16-2012, 09:24 AM
I think living in the glamorous parts of CA is almost the same as living in NYC (Manhattan particularly) in that if you don't have a solid game plan you're going to get fucked, assuming upward mobility is what you're aiming for. Otherwise, living in those places comes out to a loss on the balance sheet. For me, if it don't make dollars it don't make sense.
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12-16-2012, 09:32 AM
As for San Diego and Republicans, totally true that the term "Republican" is relative here. I also find many California republicans to be quite competent. I remember the former "Governator's" first recall election where he was up against Arianna Huffington, Cruz Bustamante and the republican Tom McClintock. McClintock was by far the most qualified of the bunch. Many of his policies made a whole lot of sense. In fact, in most traditionally Republican states he would be a moderate republican, if not a conservative democrat, but in CA he was considered far right wing. Unfortunate. Arnold could hardly be considered a true republican. I find most CA republicans to be more economically conservative rather than socially, which are the kind of republicans I can agree with for the most part. I don't really care about how people choose to live their lives so long as they don't undermine the liberty of others to do the same.
The interesting thing about SD is you have a situation where the city is more liberal and attracts a ton of young transplants but the county leans more Republican (though in a different sense). SD also attracts a lot of wealthy retirees. Guys like Mitt Romney live in La Jolla. You also have those rich folks in towns like Coronado who are conservative. I know I felt out of place like a mofo in Coronado.
Still, on a whole I find SD (the county included) to be fairly conservative for a major California city. It's like the second or third largest, no? I know it's LA then San Jose or San Diego. Those are in the top three. But on the other hand, SD is actually one of the few places in CA where I could raise a family.
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12-17-2012, 12:55 PM
Besides the costs and taxes, the real problem in california is the mass immigration of mexicans(most of them are poor and uneducated). There is racism towards mexicans, and i'm pretty sure those anti-immigrant feelings would be non existant if those immigrants were actually german or swedish....
Remember my words, mexicans will recover california( and most south western states) for mexico not through war, but through the most powerful weapon a poor person has: his seed...
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12-17-2012, 03:26 PM
thehypocritemanifesto
Makes money through crime.
Complains about the police state.
Makes fun of Republicans, advocates taxing the f*ck out of the rich. Until their noses bleed red blood.
Wears custom tailored suits, Gucci loafers, and moves to Florida to avoid paying taxes.
G, some people may doubt your authenticity, but from this day forward I don't think anyone will doubt you truly are from California.
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12-17-2012, 04:40 PM
7 day ban for durango.. attacking another member and thread hijacking
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12-17-2012, 08:51 PM
Tax the people who can afford it. If you make six digits, certainly seven, yeah, you can afford to pay for someone else. The concept behind it is simple and makes sense. Saying "you tax me and I'll not want to work" or whatnot is no different than the "omg if you make us pay healthcare I'll fire everyone!" routine...just blowing smoke. The rich will do ANYTHING to stay rich, that's how they GOT rich! No different than us trying to convince a girl it's ok to be slutty so we can bang her, we're doing what's in our best interest.
Our taxes go towards stupid shit. That does breed resentment. But there's still something fucked up when I was shit broke, living in the ghetto, making peanuts, and paying 25% and 5% state with 3% city without complaint (and barely eligible to even pay that), whereas someone making $150k/yr pays 35% plus 6.25% state, and bitches constantly (not referring to anyone in particular on this forum). The rich in the 1 mil class need more, but the 10+ mil group needs serious taxation. And we need to stop letting them offshore bank accounts too.
Everyone wants to raise taxes on everyone else except their own income bracket, and will rationalize away why it's moral; it's pure hamsterism. You get what you pay for. You don't want to pay that extra 3%? Oh well, cops don't give a fuck that your car got jacked, they're too understaffed to care. "No new taxes"? That mostly-white school your little timmy goes to is closing. You can't have social services and a functioning society, while not having taxes. See: any city that has no real tax base (like Baltimore). It's the same thing. The middle class shouldn't pay more than maybe 20% imo, the lower should get social benefits through more work-based stuff (jobs for the sake of jobs) and pay their fair share too. The rich have the capacity and stability to pay, therefore they should. The whining is nothing but white people problems.
Tax those who can pay, and put the taxes towards shit that's actually relevant and the people give two shits about.
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12-17-2012, 10:22 PM
More on topic. I spent about 5 years in California - the cost of living pushed me to South Florida. I never regretted that decision at all - however I did miss good tacos and surf breaks.
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12-17-2012, 11:28 PM
Both LA to SF and LA to LV are supposed to happen. The LA to LV one, passenger, is only a recent development.
There are hundreds of thousands of people if not millions that go back and forth between these cities each year. If it happens, (without knowing the hard numbers) I hardly imagine it will be a waste of money.