Los Angeles residents have apparently had just about enough of their city's excessive home prices, unaffordable rents, crushing personal and corporate tax rates, overly burdensome regulations, polluted air, etc. and are increasingly leaving for a better life in Sin City. As Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez puts it, "the rent steals so much of your paycheck, you might have to move back in with your parents, and half your life is spent staring at the rear end of the car in front of you."
As Jonas Peterson points out, his family made the move from LA to Las Vegas in 2013 and were able to double the size of their house while lowering their mortgage payment all while enjoying the added benefits of moving from one of the most over-taxed states in America to one of the lowest taxed.
Las Vegas is one of the most popular destinations for those who leave California. It’s close, it’s a job center, and the cost of living is much cheaper, with plenty of brand-new houses going for between $200,000 and $300,000.Jonas Peterson enjoyed the California lifestyle and trips to the beach while living in Valencia with his wife, a nurse, and their two young kids. But in 2013, he answered a call to head the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, and the family moved to Henderson, Nev.“We doubled the size of our house and lowered our mortgage payment,” said Peterson, whose wife is focusing on the kids now instead of her career.Part of Peterson’s job is to lure companies to Nevada, a state that runs on gaming money rather than tax dollars.“There’s no corporate income tax, no personal income tax...and the regulatory environment is much easier to work with,” said Peterson.
There's a lot of wisdom jn that.
ReplyDeleteThat's okay until they start having brown outs and water rationing.
ReplyDeleteLike in California? Ask Grey Davis about how much fun brown outs are.
DeletePlease feel free to exit the hell hole you helped create by either voting it in or not voting it out. But please do not come to my town and attempt to institute the same feel good policies you left in hell.
ReplyDeleteCopy that - we're seeing too much of that even in NC - fleeing the northern workers' paradises they helped enable, not liking the way it turned out, and wanting to try again wherever they move to. No thanks!
DeleteLook what the CA abandonment crowd has done to AZ.
DeleteIf anyone has a cure for "California Moonbatitis," please share it!
ReplyDeleteHere in San Diego we have a radio personality, Carl DeMaio, who is circulating a petition to revoke the recent CA gas tax increase. My neighbors are at each other's throats over this petition, which I think is a great idea; but many think it's a dark evil plot that somehow the miscreant Trump has instigated (anything connected with Trump or Republicans is necessarily evil.)
These people sincerely think (OK, they "feel,") that the CA state gov't wouldn't ask for more money if they really didn't need it, and that of course the extra money raised through this tax will go to improve the roads. SMH. How they can believe this, after so very much evidence to the contrary, I will never understand.
It's leaving me with few options, though; I can't go on with everything going up except my income, so I'm planning to leave too!
Here's the petition's site, for anyone interested:
Deletehttps://www.thepetitionsite.com/694/071/783/stop-the-california-gas-tax-hike./
Sorry Eskyman, there's no cure.
Deletehttps://spectator.org/adios-california/
We're 4th and 5th generation CA residents. We’ve decided to pull up roots and move to the Boise, ID area, and I’m bringing my company with me. Nicer house, nicer neighborhood, nicer people, lower taxes, lower cost of living. Our total housing costs: mortgage, plus HOA, taxes, insurance, and utilities will be less than just our property tax bill in Silicon Valley.
Only downside is leaving our friends and family behind, but our new house has plenty of room for extended visitors, and flights are cheap and frequent.
Here in the Silver State we call this Kalifornication. The assholes have totally fucked up Kali. A shitload of them moved to Colorado where I grew up in the 60s and ruined the Mile High state. Now they are ruining Nevada. Las Vegas used to be a decent place. Now it's a liberal pustule that is destroying our rights in Nevada because 80% of voters in Nevada are from that shitstain liberal hellhole Clark County. Nevada needs to give Clark county to to Kali and take the Sierra's and save them.
ReplyDeleteHA! I lived in CO 1 when it had a Republican Congressman. Imagine that but CO used to be a solid red state, SOLID. Legalizing reefer and reelecting Hick were the last straws and I moved to w Texas.
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