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Originally Posted by speeder
Go to San Francisco some time and tell me about the "welfare state". It's the most vibrant, brains and money collection you've ever seen in your life. There is nothing in other places that even compares in any way.
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So you haven't ever been anywhere far from the airport or Fisherman's Wharf in SF I guess. It is a dirty city, over run with homeless people. Lot of money there too, but there are more beggars and homeless in SF than in any other place I have ever been in this country. No Denis, you are not the only person that has seen a bit of our great nation.
Bottom line is that you are just flat ass wrong. This state is going the wrong direction fiscally and is leading the country in the move that direction. This will continue until the state is bankrupt. Productive, educated people are leaving. The weather is great, but the welfare system is such that it is a magnet for people that take much more out than they pay in taxes.
People retire, sell there houses and leave. Good people like Hugh and his charming wife are the sort you would want as neighbors. Problem is, smart guy like that has enough sense to leave when he can. I would have never come back here from Texas if my family was not here and a fell into a position where returning where returning was not entirely unreasonable. Financially it was not the best move, but it was probably cheaper than packing my kids and grandkids up and moving them to Texas, probably.