TEXAS

[Devonviolet]

So what y'all are saying is I need to find a place equidistant from all y'all so we can meet at my place.

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Good thing you were/are already set on moving to TX as these TX folks would "badger" you till you changed your mind!

That pretty much sums it up!!!
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[Devonviolet]

I'm in California, SF Bay Area. I found some land I really like in Paris, the schools are good, and I am over the crazy politics and prices in California

I grew up in Fresno and San Jose! Even back then the smog was nasty, in the Santa Clara Valley! Now that they call it "Silicon Valley" and the population as probably quintupled, I'm sure its worse.

And property values? In 1963 my parents bought a 1500 sq ft ranch on 1/10th of an acre, for $16,000. My sister just looked it up on Zillow & it is valued at a whopping $1.25 MILLION!!! Yikes!

I used to love to go to San Francisco. There is no way I would want to live in California now!

 

[tressa27884]

If @Baymule still had my number she needs to text me a location. None of my contacts transferred to my new phone.

Holy Cow! I just went to your FB page. I want one of those spotty babies!

 

[babsbag]

I used to love to go to San Francisco. There is no way I would want to live in California now!

Nobody wants to come live in CA But why are there so many people here?

My husband lived in Texas until he was 8 and you couldn't drag him back there for all the free land or money in the world.

I'm really picky about my weather. I HATE humidity, I love snow...once every few years, 3" or less. I don't care for fog, I don't like wet summers as it wrecks havoc on my garden and orchards (there is a reason CA grows so much produce), and I don't like big bugs that come with wet summers and high humidity, not overly fond of rain in general. So there is a reason I stay in CA. it meets all of my requirements. Oh, and I'll skip the hurricanes and tornadoes, at least when the earthquake happens everything is right where I left it and I won't find my goat in a tree or my car in the next county.

But the bureaucracy is a whole other issue...

 

[Devonviolet]

But the bureaucracy is a whole other issue...

That, the smog, the masses of people [I also lived in the Los Angeles area - I was there for a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in 1970 SCARY!] and the cost of living, is why I don't want to live in California.

I'm sorry Babs, I didn't mean to dis your beloved piece of California. If I remember correctly, you live in Southern CA, far from the maddening crowd. That would be okay. I just HATE crowds & can't afford to live in CA anymore.

I hate the heat in Texas, but love the friendly people and open spaces here in Texas. If you could see our 360° views, you would likely want to live here too.

 

[Latestarter]

I don't know... I'm pretty sure Babs is one o'them California babes through and through... Getting her to move to someplace with rain, and humidity to go with the heat... pretty much like pulling hen's teeth... She's pretty entrenched and building this dairy pretty much locks her in there. Too bad... I bet she'd make one great neighbor!

 

[tressa27884]

I'm sorry Babs, I didn't mean to dis your beloved piece of California. If I remember correctly, you live in Southern CA, far from the maddening crowd. That would be okay. I just HATE crowds & can't afford to live in CA anymore.

It's too peoply here. I want to be able to be at home and not have my neighbors looking into my yard from their back deck. I don't want to hear them or see them unless I choose to do so.

 

[greybeard]

Good thing you were/are already set on moving to TX as these TX folks would "badger" you till you changed your mind!

Being a native born Texan, and having traveled the globe several times in my mis-spent youth before returning back home under the Lone Star (as I always knew I would) I normally make a very concerted and pointed effort to inform prospective first time 'immigrants' to Texas of the many natural and man made perils and pitfalls they may encounter here, but of late, I take a greater pleasure in simply letting them learn of those dark points in a more personal way once they have arrived.

 

[tressa27884]

Nobody wants to come live in CA But why are there so many people here?

@babsbag - how is the dairy going? You're not in the middle of the fires are you?

 

[tressa27884]

Being a native born Texan, and having traveled the globe several times in my mis-spent youth before returning back home under the Lone Star (as I always knew I would) I normally make a very concerted and pointed effort to inform prospective first time 'immigrants' to Texas of the many natural and man made perils and pitfalls they may encounter here, but of late, I take a greater pleasure in simply letting them learn of those dark points in a more personal way once they have arrived.

Gee thanks! Having lived in North Carolina, I know about heat, humidity and bugs...... what am I missing?