California conservatives, tired of state's liberal politics, find friendlier abodes in Texas

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/3...politics-find-friendlier-abodes-in-texas.html

So this is the penultimate argument of the conservative movement? The catharsis in reading that statement alone if quite numbing. Morally? How does a California turned Texan "conservative" define morals outside the confines of a fictitious, fraudulent Christian book 2,000 years old? They don't. They invent it by a fox news checklist, apparently.

Somehow, despite the drug wars, race riots and gentrification rampant in a vapidly ridiculous California of yore, it's worse now? Morally, it is worse? Despite the massive crack epidemic, the race riots in LA? All of a sudden, gays marrying is worse? I can see where this is going, and where it is going fast. But, it gets better:

Emphasis mine; so he is a failed politician, making money off further dividing America along ideological lines? Hilarity ensues.

So an ideologue, failed politician, is using the American divide, based on a 2,000 year old book of mythologies, to make money.

Only in America.

 

Wow. Are these conservative Americans doing something illegal, or even harmful? Unhappy with the representation of their moral values, they've simply decided to move elsewhere. They didn't riot, or destroy anything, or try to silence their political opponents. I'm not sure what upsets you. Is it the prospect that Californiaa liberals will be deprived of conservative tax dollars? Or do you really hate their religious faith, which you repeatedly allude to? This country was first settled by religious refugees. Shakers, Quakers, etc. You rant about the "divisions" while spewing what amounts to religious persecution ...

 

I think he made the wise decision. Texas is going to be much more to his liking in so many ways. His house alone probably costs 1/6th of what he sold his house in California for.

 

Cali is in serious trouble, and getting worse all the time.

The 90s were golden compared to the situation now.

SF is falling apart, LA is becoming NYC West; rampant homelessness, unchecked illegal immigration and impossibly high living expenses are rendering Cali cities unlivable, and outlying areas are coming under increasing pressure. Texas is a dream state by comparison.

 

I have seen where Nashville is replacing LA as the music capital. Wealthy musicians are moving there but I wonder if they will push their liberal agendas there and screw it up too? I have been seeing for years how people are leaving Maryland, coming to Virginia and start destroying this State. Seems libs are like locust, destroying states like crops and moving on to suck off the new successful state until it's bled dry, repeat.

 

petty political stuff. he can complain about taxes and crime, but other than property taxes, tx does have its share of crimes too. there is no pancea of conservative heaven on earth

 

I maintain a home in Huntington Beach, CA, but it is no longer my primary residence. I have seen a lot of friends move to Texas and Idaho because of the mentally whacked Democratic Party politics. It's also why I bought a place in Nevada (Henderson), and live there most of the time.

 

I have my home on the market. California is no longer a place for me. Someone mentioned homeless? Check this out.

http://kfiam640.iheart.com/featured...less-problem-is-along-the-santa-ana-riverbed/

 

Wow! A guy moved. What a horror.

I've said this before, my wife was born and raised in Southern California, Riverside County - the nice part - and when we moved out of that state she finally realized what life was like without a huge weight on her shoulders and said she would never go back except for family visits.

You folks who aren't familiar with California need to get to know the phrase 'ghetto creep.' You can buy a house in a decent area, but over time there's a good chance that ghetto you thought was far away will move closer and closer to you every year. It happened to me in the first place I lived, but the second placed I lived might have been too expense for the ghetto to make a dent in it so soon. Give it time.

 

I know all about Ghetto Creep. As much as liberals want to deny it, there is a very real cultural difference between white, black, and Hispanic people, and how they treat their neighborhoods.

My issue isn't with white people fleeing ghettos. My issue is with the supposed moral decline of a state that has had far worse morals in recent history. I take issue with the notion that somehow race riots and crack cocaine epidemics are worse morally then gay marriage.

But that's just me.

I also take issue with monetizing polarization.

 

It's worse than you think. The Obama Administration put in regulations for "Low Income Housing". They have now built about 4-5 high rise craptastic apartment buildings throughout Huntington Beach. They don't provide adequate parking. You suddenly see all sorts of crowding, crime is way up, and the traffic is now a mess. What used to be "Surf City U.S.A." and a great place to live is becoming total garbage. The Obama Administration did it to force Democratic voters into Republican areas. It's insane.

 

Did I mention Huntington Beach High School now has a big drug problem?

 

"Bolshevism 101"

 

I have solid ground upon which to stand. It isn't flamebait. I asked a question. How can someone claim that the early 80's-90's California is "more moral" then the current California? I didn't claim that, a failed politician did.

HE politicized the issue. Moreover, I asked the religious question.

Don't like the topic? Then **** off, and don't reply.

 

Low income housing was an issue far before Obama. I've only ever been to Cali when I visited Seattle so I am not familiar with the state 100% - But speaking of my "personal" area, what happened here was filth spreading like cancer from center city Allentown and infecting all the other major cities, especially after the PP&L center kicked a whole slew of subsidized housing folks out.

There is a difference between white, black and Hispanic neighb orhoods and how they are treated, surely.

 

Every high school has a drug problem. You can safely blame Government, Pharma industry, Lobbyists, and hack scientists bought by Pharma to tell doctors they could safely give people opioids as a handjob to the pharma industry, claiming "they weren't addictive."

Plus the overall useless and hollow feeling of living in a country that none of us identify with, but that's another issue.

 

He politicized the issue? He was moving. Someone else wrote the story. You decided to politicize the issue further - engaging in polarization which you claimed you detested being 'monetized' - and you used this story to bash conservatives, and the religious.

You're the problem, and this thread is trolling flamebait.

 

Blah blah blah. Trolling flamebait? I am the problem? I am not selling division, like this guy is.

You're an ideologue. I tire of you and your worthless diversions. Go clog up some other thread with your traitorous, hysterical, anti-American, dogmatic ideology and off topic responses.

 

Interesting take. I live in SoCal and commuted to work at our branch office in San Antonio (part time) for several years. What are the "so many ways" that Texas is going to be to much more to his liking??

That's a bit extreme, don't you think??

Regardless, there is a certain immorality to fiscally running a state into the ground and not being honest about it.

 

Where does the OP call for what amounts to "religious persecution"?

Agreeably, Chabot is not violating any law, just he was unhappy with living in California, decided to move and make a business out of assisting others who might want to relocate. It sort of reminds me of a combination of Jim Jones and the pied piper which is just an observation on my part only which, for those of you who are old enough, brings back memories of the Branch Davidians who established their headquarters in Waco Texas. The founder attracted people who were unhappy with their original faith, moved to Texas and gave birth to a new religious faith which they found acceptable. To me that's what the discussion intimates.

 

No, it isn't extreme. I tire of that poster and their diversions. If he has nothing to add he should not reply.

Moreover, the question I asked is still unanswered. 80's-90's California was no better, yet somehow this asshat failed politician makes the argument CA has morally declined?

Since when? Since gay marriage? If that is the case for the moral argument, then I rest my own case that this guy is politicizing and profiteering off the backs of ignorant plebes.


This guy politicized his decision to move to a state rife with its own internal decay; the failings of the system are hardly due to democrats, despite what ideologues will tell you. The failings are due to a country too immersed in its own ****ing misery, disconnected from our ancestry, forcing cultural plurality, and forcefeeding everyone Christianity. It's a ****ing farce.

 

Oh, you're not selling it; you're handing it out for free by insulting the personal beliefs of the majority of this forum with your bash Christianity rant.

There is nothing traitorous about the subject of this article you wrote, nor my comments on it. Your hyperbole is worthless flamebait.

 

The OP slams a "2000 year old" text. Waco, and Jonestown doesn't clear the way for restricting religious freedoms. These are citizens exercising their right to the pursuit of happiness. Unalienable.

 

The cost of living, as I said in my post that you quoted.