It used to be.
Now the negatives outweigh the positives for too many people that you want hanging around, spending money. There was a time when people lived their whole lives in Cali and retire here. I don't believe that is the case any longer.
Yeah Todd, you are right, it is a flawed poll, all of them are. Money and the people who know how to make it can travel. Smart people tend to do things that are in their own self interest. It just depends on what you value. To me, it is worth living here, because this is where my family is. If all I was looking at were financial considerations, there is no way in hell I would be living in California. If enough of the people that have the ability to generate large incomes leave, and the ones not generating any revenue for the state continue to come, it all falls apart. Of course at least half are in favor of the increase taxes, more than half the people here support the Democrats.
The trend to take tech companies to Austin is not a new thing, BTW.
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Originally Posted by 70SATMan
Drive the 635 before you decide... That is the poster child for effen up a road project...
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When I lived on Lake Conroe, my brother came out 3 times. They were working on I 45 every single time he came out. Large stretches of construction, where it has the cement divider and one lane going each direction. He commented about them still working on it the second time he came out. The third time he wanted to know if they were ever going to finish it. It was pretty funny, of course they were not working on it for the entire 10 years, funny nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by Zeke
I'll take all the 'boring midwesterners' you've got. East Coast types have changed the climate. Of course it was East Coast folks that came first to San Francisco to start banks to take all the midwesterners' money.
Repatriation (from other states) by 1000's of WWII soldiers made for a unique culture. Then we all went surfing. Hollywood was a mainstay.
And then the new wave of East Coast came for the money, again.
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It is posts like this that make me glad you came back.
It is incredible how much California changed between 1984 and 2004. I know it changed a lot in the years prior to that, but it is very striking to me how far things have fallen in the last 30 years or so.