‘I no longer consider myself a Californian’: Texas couple praises new freedoms after life-changing move

The number of Americans moving from California to Texas nearly doubled over a decade

A California family joined the thousands of residents who ditched the Golden State for Texas following the COVID-19 pandemic. The Baleks praised the financial freedom and renewed American pride they found once they settled in the Lone Star state. 

"I no longer consider myself a Californian," Chuck Balek, a father of six, said. "I'm a Texan. We moved here to find a better life, and we found it." 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/i-no-longe...nging-move

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The real Texas invasion. Now those Blue State Jackasses are going to [BLEEP] up the Lone Star State just like they did California.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

I no longer consider California a state.

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The real Texas invasion. Now those Blue State Jackasses are going to [BLEEP] up the Lone Star State just like they did California.

Exhibit A is Austin.  It used to be a beautiful city, but they have turned it into a [BLEEP] hole just like much of California.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

The real Texas invasion. Now those Blue State Jackasses are going to [BLEEP] up the Lone Star State just like they did California.

Retirees from the northeast have been doing this to NC for years now. It's been slow but the state is turning purple. I hope the progression is slow enough that I'm dead from natural causes before it turns blue but that's not likely.

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The real Texas invasion. Now those Blue State Jackasses are going to [BLEEP] up the Lone Star State just like they did California.

Exhibit A is Austin.  It used to be a beautiful city, but they have turned it into a [BLEEP] hole just like much of California.

Yep, there's definitely a correlation of the well-educated cities turning blue over the years.

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Exhibit A is Austin.  It used to be a beautiful city, but they have turned it into a [BLEEP] hole just like much of California.

Yep, there's definitely a correlation of the well-educated cities turning blue over the years.

Then collapsing due to their own stupid policies resulting in an exodus of anyone that can afford it. Rinse and repeat.

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Exhibit A is Austin.  It used to be a beautiful city, but they have turned it into a [BLEEP] hole just like much of California.

Yep, there's definitely a correlation of the well-educated cities turning blue over the years.

Evidently the "well-educated" don't know how to keep a city beautiful and keep it from turning into a [BLEEP] hole.  Many of the "well-educated" that I have met couldn't figure out how to get out of a wet paper bag.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Not sure what the issue in Austin is.
In a lot of these liberal cities, the issues are (1) generational poverty among Black people, (2) a shortage of new housing, creating displacement onto the streets, and (3) recent immigrants.
All cities with growing populations and good jobs have these problems to some extent. These problems are more visible the higher density you get. You can avoid the hood in Jacksonville. It's harder to miss in Dallas. Get to Chicago or Detroit or San Fran and it's unavoidable.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

What a timely story.

Dallas mayor switches parties.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dallas-...epublicans

Edit: Oops, I just noticed Drifter already posted a link to this story. Anyway…

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Lyrics are prophetic. Song was written 25 years ago.

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

Not sure what the issue in Austin is.
In a lot of these liberal cities, the issues are (1) generational poverty among Black people, (2) a shortage of new housing, creating displacement onto the streets, and (3) recent immigrants.
All cities with growing populations and good jobs have these problems to some extent. These problems are more visible the higher density you get.  You can avoid the hood in Jacksonville.  It's harder to miss in Dallas.  Get to Chicago or Detroit or San Fran and it's unavoidable.

And all of them caused by the well educated liberal policies.  The correlations are clear to anyone willing to see.  The question that rank and file democrats fail to ask is why have all of these policies elevate me when the democrat leaders keep promising me prosperity.

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Original Season Ticket Holder - Retired  1995 - 2020


At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.
 

Not sure what the issue in Austin is.
In a lot of these liberal cities, the issues are (1) generational poverty among Black people, (2) a shortage of new housing, creating displacement onto the streets, and (3) recent immigrants.
All cities with growing populations and good jobs have these problems to some extent. These problems are more visible the higher density you get.  You can avoid the hood in Jacksonville.  It's harder to miss in Dallas.  Get to Chicago or Detroit or San Fran and it's unavoidable.

And all of them caused by the well educated liberal policies.  The correlations are clear to anyone willing to see.  The question that rank and file democrats fail to ask is why have all of these policies elevate me when the democrat leaders keep promising me prosperity.

Which policies?

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

Exactly.

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Not sure what the issue in Austin is.
In a lot of these liberal cities, the issues are (1) generational poverty among Black people, (2) a shortage of new housing, creating displacement onto the streets, and (3) recent immigrants.
All cities with growing populations and good jobs have these problems to some extent. These problems are more visible the higher density you get.  You can avoid the hood in Jacksonville.  It's harder to miss in Dallas.  Get to Chicago or Detroit or San Fran and it's unavoidable.

As usual you are wrong.  Regarding the part in bold, this might help.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Not sure what the issue in Austin is.
In a lot of these liberal cities, the issues are (1) generational poverty among Black people, (2) a shortage of new housing, creating displacement onto the streets, and (3) recent immigrants.
All cities with growing populations and good jobs have these problems to some extent. These problems are more visible the higher density you get.  You can avoid the hood in Jacksonville.  It's harder to miss in Dallas.  Get to Chicago or Detroit or San Fran and it's unavoidable.

As usual you are wrong.  Regarding the part in bold, this might help.

So the problem in Austin is homelessness.
Usually, homelessness is caused by people moving to a city faster than new housing units are built.  
What does that have to do with democrats?

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

As usual you are wrong.  Regarding the part in bold, this might help.

So the problem in Austin is homelessness.
Usually, homelessness is caused by people moving to a city faster than new housing units are built.  
What does that have to do with democrats?

Read the bolded part.  Don't try to defend it.  Just THINK about it and maybe you'll realize why it isn't true.

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When you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before.

So the problem in Austin is homelessness.
Usually, homelessness is caused by people moving to a city faster than new housing units are built.  
What does that have to do with democrats?

Read the bolded part.  Don't try to defend it.  Just THINK about it and maybe you'll realize why it isn't true.

I've thought about it a lot.  No new realizations are coming to me. What thought came to you? 
I mean yes there are other causes of homelessness but a shortage of housing that leads to a rapid increase in rent prices is the main one.
Classical ecoomics. Read Adam Smith, David Ricardo, etc. They were Conservatives, capitalists. Are you?

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.

Read the bolded part.  Don't try to defend it.  Just THINK about it and maybe you'll realize why it isn't true.

I've thought about it a lot.  No new realizations are coming to me. What thought came to you? 
I mean yes there are other causes of homelessness but a shortage of housing that leads to a rapid increase in rent prices is the main one.
Classical ecoomics.  Read Adam Smith, David Ricardo, etc.  They were Conservatives, capitalists.  Are you?

Whether Smith and Ricardo were conservative or liberal is irrelevant because their economic theories are two hundred years out of date.  Their world didn't include the internet and intangible assets, industrialization, electronic money transfers, drug addiction, rampant crime, a world population of 8 billion, etc.

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When you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before.

I've thought about it a lot.  No new realizations are coming to me. What thought came to you? 
I mean yes there are other causes of homelessness but a shortage of housing that leads to a rapid increase in rent prices is the main one.
Classical ecoomics.  Read Adam Smith, David Ricardo, etc.  They were Conservatives, capitalists.  Are you?

Whether Smith and Ricardo were conservative or liberal is irrelevant because their economic theories are two hundred years out of date.  Their world didn't include the internet and intangible assets, industrialization, electronic money transfers, drug addiction, rampant crime, a world population of 8 billion, etc.

That's fair.  Conservative and liberal didn't really exist as concepts back then.  Religion and the role of the King were the big questions in the UK at the time, not economics.  In our modern American context  conservatives cite Smith and Ricardo while liberals tend to say that they are outdated or superceded.  
You're a bit off about their world. Internet, no. Intangible assets, yes. Industrialization, yes but only in Britian.  Electricity of any kind, no.  Large, rapid transfers of money, yes. Drug addiction and rampant crime, yes. (Have you read any Dickens? Apparently not!)  A world population of 8 billion, no.
But proceed.  Explain how the internet, global industry, and a larger overall global population have cancelled the law of supply and demand and the law of rent.  I might learn something today.

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My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.