Posted on 01/12/2009 2:10:03 PM PST by lado
Mike Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado.
With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans to move his family 1,200 miles away from his home state's lemon groves, sunshine and beaches. For him, years of rising taxes, dead-end schools, unchecked illegal immigration and clogged traffic have robbed the Golden State of its allure.
Is there something left of the California dream?
"If you are a Hollywood actor," Reilly says, "but not for us."
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Beware Colorado. They came to Texas adnd jacked up the prices.
They keep touting that, but when I was in High School living in California the economy was the world's 6th largest.
Well, they mention it, but they don’t go into it on an in-depth level, like they do for other reasons, as you read the entire article. They won’t just come out and say the reality: people are leaving because the Mexican takeover is almost complete.
They leave CA then they want their new home to be just like CA and they will ruin Colorado. Even more conservative Californians are pretty lib.
The real problem that California has is that it is entirely, absolutely unwilling to reform. It will tax its real producers until they do what this gentleman is doing - leave. What they are left with are users of others' productivity. It is a death spiral which can only be temporarily forestalled by extreme assistance from Federal Government - ZerO. In the end, the collapse will be the same as if the 'big quake' had come.
>> Beware Colorado. They came to Texas adnd jacked up the prices.
Hell, they’ve been Californicating Colorado for years now. It started back when I lived there in the 70s.
Now they have a Democrap governor, 2 assclown senators, and they went for The Zero in the presidential sweepstakes.
What was once a conservative semi-paradise is now a cesspool with pretty mountains running through it.
I knew it was. Just trying to get a rise. (I have family and friends who live there)
Colorado, it is ruined too, best to pick a no income tax state...Texas still has a chance.
They’re not gonna be as financially able to influence things as in the past. They’re not gonna be getting the 6-700% realization of profit from their little houses. It just ain’t there. It’s now mainly survival and survival tends to change attitudes about largesse.
Like the proprietors of this site?
Exactly! that’s what they do in NJ too. People leave because of the property taxes yet they fail to connect high property taxes and liberalism. So many in NJ have moved to North Carolina that the state is shifting politically. They should just relocate to another liberal state...........oh I forgot, liberal states cost too much to live in.
>> They’re not gonna be as financially able to influence things as in the past. They’re not gonna be getting the 6-700% realization of profit from their little houses. It just ain’t there. It’s now mainly survival and survival tends to change attitudes about largesse.
Interesting point. Hope it turns out to be a significant effect.
NC is becoming NJ South. :-(
Sorry I should have said some conservative CA are pretty liberal.
Our last two Respublican Presidents were from California. One was a little bit RINO but not the other.
You don't know what you are talking about. The ones who leave are the ones who CAME here and ruined our great state over the last 20 years. Most of them are from New Jersey and New York and Florida.
As for thinking that conservative Californians are liberal you are way off base. Ask Jim Robinson about his views or me or my wife, or Ronald Reagan or Bob Dornan or Duncan Hunter. It is very, very difficult for a RINO to win a contested primary in California.
(and no, Arnold won an open special election with the votes of Democrats when he first got his leg up into office.)
As a whole, Republicans in California are as conservative as they come for the most part.
To be sure I've met a lot of decent, hard-working, conservative Californians unfortunately they are outnumbered about five to one.
Just the opposite states like California that are controlled by wacko libs the conservatives in them are more conservative because of it not less. I am sure this is true in places like New Jersey also.
You true blue patriot conservative Californians are heroes.
Lights in a darkened, liberal infested sewer. Weep for California...better yet-— get mad and revolt with what the vermin have done to it.
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