[monkeyshine]

I love California... but if I earn enough money someday, I'm going to buy a house in Nevada and take up residency there. I sure as heck don't want to pay off these billions of $ in bonds for the rest of my life as a California resident. 7-9-11% of my income goes (or will go) to this state depending on how much I make (which fluctuates year to year). 0% in Nevada. If I make enough, the taxes will wash out the Nevada mortgage. If I make even more, I'll be way ahead.

[Gophack]

You and me both ... I love California, I'm fifth generation, my children are sixth generation! But we are bankrupting our future, heaping debt onto our children. Still ... jobs are here, and until we can get comparable jobs out of state, I doubt we'll be making a move.

[Dog Gone]

So, the message California politicians have learned is that voters aren't scared by big bond amounts, and so they should quickly put many billions more in borrowing on the ballot.

Do voters not realize that they are voting to repay those bonds personally? Just the two bond issues upcoming represent about $1,000 per resident of California, and when you realize that a large portion of residents don't pay taxes, that is a huge new debt being assumed by each person who does pay taxes. Even that figure is low, because it only represents principle, not interest, on the bond amounts. Sheesh.

[Myrddin]

I made the move from San Diego, CA to Pocatello, ID. My work is 95% software, 5% hardware related. I can do most of it at home and deliver the product when I'm finished. That hasn't exactly turned out perfectly. I've had to be at the customer site to do the hardware design, supervise the construction and integration of the interface boards, then create the software to the customer's constantly moving target. The customer is quite happy with the arrangement, but my wife wasn't too pleased when I could only be home 69 days in 2001. In 2002, I've been home 8 days in January, 6 days in February and I'm back home now until driving back to San Diego on March 31 after driving 910 miles home on March 24th. Getting the "time off" required working 86 hours between March 16 and March 23. I don't regret making the move, but sometimes you simply trade one pile of troubles for a different one.