Goodbye, California
I’m joining the exodus out of California today, flying across the country to start a new life on the Slightly Less Crazy Coast.
Some things in this state I’ll miss. But a lot, I won’t. I’m going somewhere, I hope, a little more like this.
Anyway, posting will be light out of me for a couple of days…y’all take care.
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{Post by See-Dubya}
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It’s always a shame and outrage when good people are driven out of their homes and forced to migrate by their politically inane (and insane) surroundings.
I was forced to leave Toronto and move to the only sort-of-American place in Canada, Alberta, because the dysfunctional multiculturalism — particularly in Toronto — and its rampant violent crime, not to mention the prevailing communist ideology left me no other choice.
Good luck to you. I hope you’ll find what you’re looking for.
On July 12th, 2008 at 11:09 am, lgm said:
The Liberal San Francisco Bay area contributed more to America than the entire states of Montana, Alabama Wyoming, and Kansas put together.
Technically true, but I think we are looking for quality & not quantity here… But I must thank the bay area, for they are truly the bacon on the America’s wound.
Just made the move 7 months ago. 21 years in L.A. and now in Des Moines. I’m very happy here, but I miss In-N-Out, The Magic Castle, El Pollo Loco and a few other niceties. The rest you can keep.
LOL
C-Dub, you ought to check us out here in Jacksonville, FL. We’re on the coast, but this big city is FAR from left! We’d love to have you here!
C-dub, come to Virginia! We need more conservative transplants to keep up with all the liberal transplants from NJ and MD. I’ve been to CA (San Diego) once in my life and I know there are plenty of conservatives in CA who live outside of the Bay area and LA. It’s just a shame that all the hard-working people of CA are force to move to ID, CO, etc just make it…
I hope to be joining you within the next couple of years.
I’ve lived in California for 25 years now and have just about had my fill of it.
High taxes, crumbling infrastructure, environuts, sanctuary cities, bad air, filthy beaches, gangs, crime… California is no longer The Golden State it once was.
I’ll be moving back to North Carolina with its clean air, clean beaches, lower taxes and wide open smooth freeways.
If only they could figure out a way to keep all those damn Yankees from moving there. STG some of you Northerners have no clue about Southern hospitality.
When I was living in San Diego I remember reading a little blip in the local sports page about Tim Flannery taking his wife on a road trip to the East Coast. One evening they decided to go to the beach for a romantic sunset…only to realize the sun rises in the East.
…and as for all of you In/Out fanatics….I love a good burger too but good grief.
Sonic is pretty decent and they have locations all over the east coast.
As for me, I’m a HUGE Bojangles fan.
Dare you to eat just one.
Do your self a favor and stop and stay somewhere in the middle, unless you are heading south of northern Virginia.
Oh…and how could I forget…
Eastern NC-style (vinegar based) BBQ and *Sweet* Tea.
That right there is reason enough to move back.
1. Who gives a f…ig?
2. Warning to motorists: Keep an eye out for Rusty’s ride. You’ll see him going the wrong way in the left lane.
3. I think lgm’s pissed at Wyoming because it was the scene of Matthew Shepard’s last drunken barroom pickup attempt.
I hope you are moving to Pennsylvania. It is a beautiful state, especially during autumn. The only thing I’d change is the winters. There’s a joke about the four seasons in western PA: “Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Road Construction.” Our roads are horrible - potholes that will wreak havoc with your car.
emjem24 #67, I’ve always hated the term “Pennsyltucky”.
BTW, good luck to you in your new endeavors.
Not a positive thing to say, that Michelle will inevitably be slammed with.
I have lived near Seattle, Eugene Oregon, Chicago and New York. Since 1982, I have lived in Northern California. I have enjoyed living in all of those places for different reasons. I have to laugh at some of the things people here have written about California, to call these comments ignorant would be an understatement. From my home, I can either ride my mountain bike for 5 minutes or run for 10 minutes to get to a trailhead on Mt. Diablo and run or ride beautiful trails for miles and miles. One of the reasons these trails even exist is because people got together and fought the developers who wanted to pave everything over and build subdivisions.The subway station aka BART, is a 10 minute drive from my house and it is 40 minutes into San Francisco where I work. My closet neighbors are a deputy sheriff and a police officer for a neighboring city. On the holidays, most of the homes fly the flag, this past 4th of July, we had a parade through our town and met at the town park for a bbq etc. It’s a town of 10,000, people know each other and for the most part get along. There are no “lifestyle” parades or in your face politics. Our town could be in Oregon, Washington, Illinois or New York State, places where I have lived. Instead it is in California. You may not choose to live here, but I do and my family and I love it here. California is a state, not a stereotype.
Have you considered the south? You would be among fellow red meat eating gun toten’ loners….you know. FRIENDS!
Sonic is pretty decent and they have locations all over the east coast.
Oh man, I messed that up.
How about this:
Sonic sucks donkey-balls compared to In-n-Out.
Seriously, not impressed with Sonic.
At. All.
Hey LGM, why don’t you back up your loony rantings with some facts!
Well Bronze…I live in Placer Country, and while it is still in this pit of Liberalism that is California, at least it is the largest Republican/Conservative county in the State. I was born and raised in Sac, and i can tell you, I can’t even stand to visit there anymore. I say, if you gotta stay, come out here. You will know the difference immediately.
And while I agree that In and Out has never held much for me…I got food poisoning both times I ate there…once in Placentia and once up here, I can say that Sonic is pretty good. At least they are starting to open them up around here, and not just taunting us with their commercials on cable tv anymore.
Dude…not cool. WAAAAAAAY not cool.
Not for nothing but you can’t get a decent slice of pizza anywhere in California. I ordered a slice of pizza in Marina Del Rey once and I got a triangular piece of cardboard with cheese whiz and ketchup.
One thing I did like though is if I wanted an avocado, lemon, or kumquat all I had to do was go to the backyard and pick it out of the tree. And chicks really liked the New York accent.
Wonder if See-dubya had any idea how much talk about food his Goodbye In-N-Out deal would elicit. Guess RetFireman is not used to really fresh hamburger fixins. Enjoyed my In-N-Out in Fresno enormously today. An earlier posting that called an In-N-Out burger a greasy hockey puck is blasphemous. He will not be saved in the last days
Having made the exodus from the crappy blue state of mn to the awesome Gunbearing State of AZ, I can only wish that your move will turn out to be as profitable as mine.
Blondie’s Pizza in Berkeley.
And fresh hamburger does not cause food poisoning. And who wants soggy, limp, tasteless fries like the ones they serve?
Give me a Tommy’s anyday. You can keep In & Out.
Lgm dont ever insult my home state of kansas again. See dub move to kansas we got spangle hamburger and ku ksu and wsu sports to watch and kansas is home to cool people like martina mcbride and barry sanders. One more thing gay people are not our enemy it the gays who shove their views in your face like rosie that the real enemies.
Yeah, IGM. Right over the cliff into the “Dark Ages” again. You remind me of someone who tinkers with a perfectly good machine until it sputters and stops. Then stand there, confused and dismayed. We went from 13 independent colonies to a world power in a very short time, because the system worked. Now, you leftists, want to change it all around into something that has failed miserably every time it’s tried.
I almost felt sorry for you there for a minute… but then you go and root for Ohio University !?!? lol
Oklahoma! The only state they had to give away to get anyone to live there. There’s a reason Texas didnt want any part of it, back when it was Texas own country.
\ ..back when Texas was its own country.\
A little context please. The event described did happen in one of the states at which lgm vented his spleen. At the time, the pre-KOS libtard set did go ballistic:
My speculation over the cause of lgm’s hissy fit is reasonable and logical.
Whether you meant it that way or not (although it did seem obvious that you did).
Not only was the Matthew Shepard comment very easy to associate with overt gay hate but your comment was horribly disparaging of a person who was savagely murdered.
And, this being Michelle Malkin’s site she will tagged with it.
Though in my opinion this kind of remark is not OK, you should make them on your own site.
see-dubya –
Your links to things about California you’ll miss brought back some good memories for me. In the late 60’s while RR was governor of CA, I attented CMC (then Claremont Men’s, now Claremont McKenna College after it went co-ed) and took a class from Harry Jaffa, who is a participant at the Institute. While there, I also went to the In N Out Burger in Pomona regularly.
I lived in CA for over 30 years, with time outs for the service and to live in MI, but in 2003, I left and never looked back. I still have family there and have been back once and will go again for a brief time when my father’s health fails. Other than that I’ve seen it all from Hilt to San Ysidro and have no desire to visit. I’ll stick with my own version of Maple Street memories.
Live there, again. Uh-Uh. No way. Not ever. The crowded conditions from Sacramento to the Mexican border, politics and the resultant taxes have spoiled it for me.
I wish you well in finding something you can live with. It’s getting tougher all the time, but there’s still some of it out there if you look hard enough (hint — if you are going to the East Coast, you have to go 200 south of DC to have much of a chance of finding it).
I enjoy many things in california: variety of medical choices (natural means), no hassle homeschooling which is a biggie for me, nice weather, fun stuff to do..etc.
There are things that are really getting to me: liberal nitwits, multiculturalism (and not in a good way), liberal nitwits, fast paced life, two income economy, liberal nitwits, they are trying to shove global warming down my throat, they are trying to shove other sexual lifestyles down our families throat, and lately the power company is trying to push on us (by offering nice cuts to our power bill) to place an electronic regulator of our airconditioners and heat to regulate the temperature in our homes. Of course this is still “optional” and it can be “overridden”……but we know how that goes.
Scary.
Good luck to you See-Dubya. I too lived in and left Kali-foreign-ya. I moved to Tennessee, bought a house for 119K that would sell for $1M there. I don’t miss the 6 lane freeways or the horrible traffic. American flags fly proudly from homes and businesses here and people are proud of our military. Most people have not even heard of code pink here. Our version of In and Out is called Backyard Burgers. Hear-ye all conservatives, all proud Americans, all Patriots, all pro-life supporters, all pledge-of-allegiance believers, you are not alone! Tennessee welcomes you with open arms.
prendad… how is the humidity and the “skeeters” there? I am looking for somewhere to retire away from the gang banging young black men and the illegal Mexicans.
I don’t mind ANY race that acts civil and American… so if these type of citizens are there, I don’t care.
Ditto. Living here in CA is a balancing act, and the threat of more regulations and crazy rules are daunting.
But I haven’t lost hope. The liberal-dominated Assembly should not sit pretty on their “laurels” - they, too, are vulnerable. Folks are finding out the State’s welfare is farthest from the minds of politicians in Sacramento. That most of the libbies are into solidifying their power, instead of making sure government run according to the wishes of its citizens, as in the Perata-initiated recall of Jeff Denham. This brought the ire of Central Valley voters on the Democratic Party-led Assembly. Pols should be very careful about irritating their constituents.
Yes Sheppard was murdered…all murders are savage by definition….However Sheppard’s problem was that he went to pick-up a GUY not a gal, and the guy of Sheppard’s affections didn’t like it, and went overboard in his response.
However, this stuff happens everyday in America when guys try to pick up women in bars and boyfriend shows up…which is why if you have any brains in the first place you try to see if your “lover” is in fact available for you in the first place. Sheppard wasn’t smart enough to even do that (let alone NOT practice homosexuality), and learned the VERY HARD WAY.
The queers want to turn this fool-sheppard- into a martyr (and I wonder for “what religion”, by the way) for their cause.
Sorry I won’t go along with that.
Sheppard was an idiot like the people who show up in the B-section of your newspaper who try dumb stunts like playing catch with a rattlesnake, and end up dead.
Sheppard was and is not worthy of any veneration. get over it.
Sheppard is only worthy of pity..and I frankly have more pity for the kids who are molested and sometimes killed by queers masquerading as adult Scout leaders and priests.
Fixed it for ya
GO MIZZOU!!!
DC? Are you crazy?
I moved to California THREE times in my adult life. It was nice living there from 83 to 86 (then moved to Arizona, loved it there). Business brought me back to California in 91, and I stayed until 95. It was a lot more crowded and not as nice as before, in just those few short years.
I moved to Atlanta (hated the weather there), so I moved back to California in 1999. By then, things had become just almost unworkable in CA. We had brownouts from badly handled “power deregulation”, term limits put too many amateurs in the state legislature, so the special interest lobbyists now run the state. The county of Los Angeles teeters on Bankruptcy almost every year because of the MILLIONS of illegal aliens who use the free county health care facilities, and LEGAL residents almost have no access to the system if they require care and haven’t been able to find private insurance because of pre-existing conditions. The freeways had become crowded ALL the time, not just during the 3 hour rush hours twice a day. Liberals were running all the elected governments, and running the quality of life into the ground. It just was so much worse from a quality of life perspective than it was 20 years prior. However, if someone had not come and gone in the intervening years, they would not have noticed the degradation to quality of life while living there.
I stayed until 2003 when business took me back to Texas, this time Austin (I lived in DFW from 78 to 82). I loved Austin, I just didn’t have time to meet people there and it was kind of lonely. I moved back to my home state of Michigan in 2006 to help with my elderly mom. Being an entrepreneur, I can pretty much decide where I want to live.
While I loved the weather in CA, and most of my friends that I have made as an adult are there, I would never move back. The liberals have an iron fisted control over that state and there is no appreciation for hard work and individual rights. People have become callous toward each other and political correctness rules. I am enjoying being back where real people live, I just have to put up with 4 seasons of weather again. While MI is a blue state, the west side of the state is very RED, which is where I live. I believe that this state is turning purple, because more people are understanding that the tried and true tired liberal platforms drag down the economy and don’t produce results.
We left California two years ago. The list of reasons to return–even for a short visit–grows shorter and shorter each day.
In-n-Out is still on it, though. Hope you’re as happy moving out as we are. Life is grand in our new location.
Ohio ???? Dude….get back on your meds.
Oklahoma is right out in front with immigration enforcement. Texas?…aside from the City of Irving….is lagging.
Sorry to chime in so late, see_dubya, but I hope you are having a safe and uneventful trip across the country.
Hello Rob, I live in Germantown, just outside of Memphis and it is as day is to night. Memphis had 164 homicides last year and we had zero. I attribute that to our highly paid, well equipped police force. As to the skeeters, not too bad. But the humidity can be awful since we have the Mississippi river here. I must admit there are nicer places to live in Tennessee but this is where I retired and the kids are grown up and live in the area. Tenn is divided into three main parts that are quite different from each other. Check them all out on the state web site. Oh, by the way, another thing I like about this area is that there are quite a few gun enthusiasts here. I am retired Navy and belong to the largest private shooting club in Tennessee and I love it.
THREADJACK ALERT:
The Matty S. comment related to lgm’s WDS (Wyoming Derangement Syndrome) AND NOTHING ELSE.
the only way I would eat a sonic burger or especially a white castle would be to make them stop waterboarding me….
My wife and I pulled the plug on the “Golden State” back in 1992. I can honestly say that I very rarely miss it. We’ve got twice the house at a quarter the cost in North Carolina with wages that are the same…. better beaches too.
Nope, I don’t miss it at all.
Well if you go to a mid-atlantic state, you can hit up 5-Guys, EASILY trumps the In and Out, no contest!!
http://www.fiveguys.com/
Holy cow, I just looked at the map, apparently 5-Guys are all over now. Just about three years ago they were nowhere but the D.C. area, incredible! And a testament to how incredible their burgers are!
Why Wyoming, Alabama, Kansas? Solidly Republican, geographically diverse, leaches on the body America (getting more federal subsidies than they pay in taxes), not Missouri (my home state).
Die Hippie, Die said (#112):
This incident of murderous bigotry is nothing for Wyoming to be proud of.
kcnut said (#128):
OK, only one more time. In Missouri we had a joke about Kansas: “Did you hear about the guy who moved from Missouri to Kansas and raised the IQ of both states?”
I left California 12 years ago. Was born and raised there - in San Francisco no less. Started moving east and south in the 70’s, but improvement was minimal. Finally got completely fed up and went to Oregon. Little did I think that the Californication would follow me here, but I was wrong. The western side of this state is progressively (pun intended) more and more of a nanny state, and the enviruses have most of it locked up in litigation so that no one can make a living. Naturally, this makes all those former loggers and mill workers and fishermen think the nanny state is the only way to go.
I hope your eastern migration works out better. Looking forward to hearing about it.
Funny, I just got back from a week in California. It’s beautiful and I had a blast, but I am so darn happy to be home (Georgia). Good luck adjusting to the real world (a/k/a red state America).
So, how’s the move going see-dubya? Hope all is well.
Welcome to the fleeing crowd leaving CA. Left Christmas Day 2006 for Alabama. Note to California: Your no longer the Golden State but the State of Lost Dreams. Spent 40 years of my life there. We have found many California retirees here including a CHP Captain. Welcome to the free world See-Dubya.
Well, SeeDubya, if you’re in my neighborhood, the first beer’s on me.
UCV
see-dubya, if you’re not coming to Texas, you aren’t likely to find that on the “other” left coast.
BTW, we do have a coast here in Texas. We call it the Gulf Coast. C’mon down, y’all, and you will find the country that was…unless you go to Austin.
See-Dubya, I lived in Sunnyvale for 5 years (1996 - 2001). Loved everything except for the congestion and taxes. Moved to Florida to give myself an 8.5% raise (no state income tax). Scenery is not as nice, but its a lot more affordable. Good luck in your new digs.