Then how do Rick "Why can't kids pray in school" Perry, George "Mission Accomplished" Bush, and Ted "The Zodiac Killer" Cruz's of the world keep getting elected?
Whats the count on the wingnuts jumping ship after stupid claims? jopat was reincarnated as hollic' upstairs. TJ, gwayneco, tallanvor ran out of shame after Romney lost too.
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That's great and all, but the last thing most texans wants is the people who ruined others states (like California) moving to Texas because it is nicer and ruining it too.
I can't wait to watch him kiss the pinky ring of the Donald. It'll be awkward but awkward defines the guy.
California got ruined because everyone moved here while it was cheap and now its overcrowded. Texas is getting more expensive though. The inner ring burbs of Houston and Dallas have consistently been going up in price. Austin rent prices have been going up a lot. Kt sure about SA. Texas being the low tax business friendly state that it is makes it not that friendly for the individual person and infrastructure needs a lot of work. The difference for me is very noticeable after I moved away to LA.
California is still a very good place to live if you are very wealthy. I have a number of people move to areas in Southern California when they made their fortune. The biggest difference I have noticed is that it is terrible for the poor, and there is not the opportunities that existed in the past. Less of a way to become part of the middle class. When you look at the golden era from the 30's through the 70's and it was amazing. You could purchase a home, in a very nice neighborhood fairly close to elite areas for middle class incomes. Los Angeles was the mecca for culture and opportunity. There are some very rough areas in California that have popped up over the last 25-30 seasons, especially in central and northern California. Stockton is not a safe place, and there are many others. I would still pick California over a majority of other states though. I enjoy the weather and scenery (outside of LA).
Totally agree with this, sadly. Not sure America in general offers good chances to move into the middle class, but it's darned near impossible in California. The B-Bob household is not rich. Upper middle but really feeling the pinch in SF quite badly. Kind of ridiculous for a two-income household but there it is.
SF is in a once-in-a-lifetime kind of bubble. Current market conditions won't prevail, and there's already been softening around the ~1m range when it comes to housing (though those ~8m houses near Presidio trolololol). I've never seen so much inequality though, aside from maybe Shanghai where I stayed briefly...it's quite dizzying--I'm close to the Intercontinental, where President Obama stays when he comes for multi-million dollar fundraises. I'm also right next to Slack, a company that took a few months to be worth a billion dollars. But a few blocks over, the most violent street in SF, and one of the most violent in America, an open-air drug market, fistfights, public masturbation etc. The unfortunate reality is that more cities in the US are going to be like SF, but not because of the poor or immigrants or even free trade--but because the innovation that is coming out of the city is destroying the traditional notion of work--and without a strong social safety net, a basic income, and other measures, I fear that what started here will spread throughout. It's actually quite easy to get in the upper class in SF--if you know the right buzzwords, are working on said buzzwords, and have the right pedigree (big ifs). Investors here might as well be Midas. There are so many Stanford, CMU, MIT, Urbana-Champaign, and Waterloo grads here making a mint because of it. It's a very small group though, and one fraught with a lot of ingroup bias. I don't think the average person has much of a chance, and it's not really their fault. That comes with its own costs. A lot of people who could be doing foundational research into physics, biology and more are now optimizing ad targeting across different population segments and capturing more value for investors than is perhaps created. I imagine the rest of California being a less extreme extension of SF. A very polarized ladder only open to very few, and very closed to anybody else. Ironically, I'd say it's easier in SF than anywhere else to go from upper middle to upper given the right conditions, but also much easier to go from middle to lower.
The one thing that is incessantly annoying in the Bay Area is the number of Dubs fans who are now learning how a pick & roll works...:/
I mean, you can still purchase homes on a middle class income in nice neighborhoods in the major metro areas of California. You'll just be in Rancho Cucamonga or Dublin instead of the coastal areas of the metro. Even Stockton is turning around a bit as the Bay Area continues to encroach. I wouldn't say it is terrible for the poor as there are a lot of services that help. I'd rather be poor in California than Texas.
San Francisco is crazy because there isn't much land and too many NIMBYs there that don't want more housing. On top of that some of the cities have artificial growth boundaries that will limit housing and push things further out. Now Oakland and the rest of the East Bay is going through positive change pretty fast as people get priced out of the Peninsula. The time to buy there was in 08-2011. Homes in Oakland have nearly doubled in value since then. Also the rich Chinese investors who are also raising prices across California neighborhoods by buying homes in straigh cash, tearing them down and building McMansions on top. This is a huge phenomenon in the San Gabriel Valley area and Orange County.
Amen. And to your other post, yeah it is definitely dizzying. I have the wrong set of buzzwords and am probably pretty stuck in my academic post. Not too far from you, I saw some naked dude shooting up into his neck the other day as a bunch of $75k cars rolled past him not even glancing. It's really gross on both ends. It's not like this city doesn't spend crazy $ on the safety net either.
