The California Exodus

I do consider you intelligent so it's puzzling that you contradict yourself in your third sentence.

I actually used to really like Paladin until I found out he was Trump bootlicker and gun fetishist.

There are some political differences that you simply can't overcome. (Although I'd argue the gun issue transcends politics.)

No, you’ve been constantly bombarding us with shit from you tubers and podcasters for years now

You are more stupid as a result of this fetish of yours. I mean you didn’t even know about Canada’s robust filming industry. You look like an idiot here

Facts

In my defense, I did say "we all."

So you didn’t even read the OP because if you did, you would have seen that I didn’t post a YouTube video. I don’t even know what’s wrong with posting YouTube videos in the first place. Plenty of people here post videos all of the time and yet I’m the only one who gets shit for it.

I first became aware of the Canadian film industry when the FCC imposed the "prime time access" rules in the early 70s which meant that networks couldn't start running their programs until 8pm eastern time. The idea was an early version of cable public access where local stations would run locally produced stuff (think Wayne's World). Instead, they ran syndicated stuff like game shows and cheapo half hour shows like "Dr. Simon Locke" which was produced in Canada.

Special shout-out to the California expats who will flip Texas in two weeks

That was Tuttle, not Beck. He's still in PA.

Yep. The big cities people move to are liberal "shitholes" but with cool things to do being further away.

No shit, the last time I was in NorCal, a 30 mile trip from my folks' place to Arden Mall took almost an hour on I-80. And this was a goddamn Saturday with damn near bumper to bumper traffic so bad, GPS rerouted me to the back roads for the first 10 miles

WTF.

Median rent in Phoenix has been rising at a faster pace than even San Francisco, so expect that bubble to crash there in the near future.

I suspect the same things happened in places like Austin and Atlanta too.

For those who like to attack sources instead of the content.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...e-state-energy-coronavirus-column/5645176002/

The thing is, the people of whom you speak aren't as stupid and gullible as you are

Looks like not much has changed from my time being stationed there in the late nineties. Most of the homes that I saw for sale were in the million dollar range. Gas was over $2.00 a gallon when it was a $1.00 everywhere else and we were suffering numerous power outages then too. I don't know how any middle to lower class person lives there without working two jobs. San Francisco has been a literal shithole forever and it seems every election the state is trying to pass a new tax or regulation that makes the cost of doing business harder.

Glad I dont live there anymore.

what are you insinuating here

Jon Gabriel, a Mesa resident, is editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com and a contributor to The Republic and azcentral.com, where this column originally appeared. Follow him on Twitter: @exjon

Yes, we all know that @Paladin is a California '2', but a Michigan '8'

That he does. I'll admit he's one of the reasons I became a Tea Partier in the younger days until I couldn't turn my brain off to what was going on in the black community any longer.

straight from the horse's, umm, mouth?

Canada film industry = Vancouver, and Degrassi.

Kidding! I love Canada! You make great, dry ginger ale.

Conservative positions are very persuasive when you identify with "decent people", the privileged twenty per cent.

It's easy to look at neat, tidy middle to upper class neighbourhoods and think "you know what, that's what the world should look like, that's civilised".

The problem is that by looking only at those you risk becoming blind to the mathematical impact elsewhere. You start seeing the council estates (here) and the homeless camps (there) and think "they must be dirty, subhuman people to live like that".

Once you fall into that mode of thinking it's all too easy to see the divides as being indicative of personal qualities rather than an inevitable consequence of an ideology. When people "pull up the bootstraps" they do so at someone else's expense. The more successful they are the greater that expense. The greater the expense the greater the incentive to widen the gap between "us" and "them" because there's never such a thing as "enough", you're never "there".

There's always someone with more, someone to emulate or compete with, ever more rarefied spheres to move in.

It's one reason I refuse to work privately, because I already have a middle class lifestyle, why alienate myself further from the life experiences of those I work with?

My sofa won't get comfier, my car will take me down the same roads no matter what badge is on the bonnet (although I did cave to marital pressure and get a Merc this time round, I actually prefer my trusty Seat) my TV will show the same programmes, a swankier gym won't magically make me fitter.

After a point it becomes mere status, nothing more, nothing less, and status only means something when you're comparing it to someone else's.

In order for it to satisfy, you have to have someone to look down on.

Conservatism in a nutshell: "I don't want the government telling me what to do. Hey, why didn't that guy just obey the police officer?!"

Gene Simmons has his house up for sale and is moving to Washington State. For $22 million dollars it can be yours..

picking one at random, and...

and google for 5 seconds...

so look one more inch deeper, and...

After all that, you still expect us to watch some stupid video???

Lol at Federal Farmer seriously citing to USA Today. Is he gonna cite to his October issue of Highlights magazine next?

Hey, show some respect.

USA Today won a Pulitzer for best investigative paragraph!

First off, I didn’t post any videos in this thread. Second, must be nice to just dismiss facts just because the guy works for a think tank that you don’t like.

think tank = propaganda mill

I don't have to taste your shit to know that shit tastes bad.

There are no inevitable consequences of an ideology. There will be people who thrive or fail under any circumstance, and it cannot all be attributed to unfair advantages unless you insist that individual aptitude and discipline itself is an unfair advantage.

You're the only one saying all.

The word "inevitable" doesn't exactly lend itself to individual, situational nuance.

But a longitudinal study of history does. Fall of the Roman Empire and all that. Or Joshua Lederberg's prophetic quote about viruses.

Just had a lovely dinner on the ocean in like 60 degree weather. If people don't want stick around California, I welcome it. That will only drive down the price of my surf and turf dinner.