CA sucks!

[spiderman2]

Does any one else fill like CA just sucks? I just fill so over this state. The job market seems to be a joker 7+ years trying to get another job so I can leave my current job that I cant stand that just is causing me 24/7 anxenity, stress, depression etc. Dont known if its like all CA or just the area I leave in but I am tried of having to deal with road construction ever where around where I live. Its been like 10 years straight of basically non stop road work. Now PGE is stupid and turns power off for no reasons. There are a lot of reasons its stupid. Just had to deal with like 39 hours with no power and this is going to be a several times a year thing going forward I belive. I just fill like the state is a joker and you have to put up with to much crap. I fill like I would likely be able to find a better job a lot easier some where else and then of course there is the whole fact that CA is expensive state to live in. I dont really want to leave CA in that like all my family and friends are out here and not having to dill with like Blizzards, Huricans etc is great. Really only danger is fire has I am in a part of CA that dont even really get earth quakes and I also fill like the time difference in the east coast would suck. I should have my AA degree in mass communications done by the end of the year has I only have 9 weeks left for this semester if you count this week taking the last 2 classes I need for my degree on Mondays and wensdays classes. Once I get me degree I am going to try to get out of CA. I dont want to move that far away but I am thinking about trying to get to like Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Iadho. Stats that are only around 1-2 stats over from ca. Any one else move out of Ca and fill like it has turned your life around for the better? Or planning to move some where else?

 

[MovieSlave]

Lived in the CA Bay Area first 33 years of my life. Glad I left.

Sadly I had no idea how many other Californians were moving up to Portland as well. Things are getting bad up here now too. Traffic, cost of living, etc. A certain type of Californian are coming up here ruining the Pacific Northwest with the same bs laws and regulations that messed up CA.

A few buddies moved to Idaho from CA and are trying to get me to move there as well. Hopefully keep the morons who love passing dumb laws and more and more taxes out of there.

Just a heads up but the cost of living is ridiculous up here in Portland as well. Not as crazy as CA...yet.

 

[terry78]

At first I thought you meant Canada was like, "well that's a bit on the nose."

But seriously, you are probably the outlier in your own state, as most people from there love it and think the rest of the country is like that lol.

 

[Immortalfire]

My niece and her husband got the heck out of there a couple years back. They have gone on record saying it was the best thing they ever did.

 

[spiderman2]

Lived in the CA Bay Area first 33 years of my life. Glad I left.

Sadly I had no idea how many other Californians were moving up to Portland as well. Things are getting bad up here now too. Traffic, cost of living, etc. A certain type of Californian are coming up here ruining the Pacific Northwest with the same bs laws and regulations that messed up CA.

A few buddies moved to Idaho from CA and are trying to get me to move there as well. Hopefully keep the morons who love passing dumb laws and more and more taxes out of there.

Just a heads up but the cost of living is ridiculous up here in Portland as well. Not as crazy as CA...yet.

Are CA and Portland the only states you have lived in before? I have heard like 50% of people want to leave CA that live here and I am hearing more people saying they want out to. I known ever where cost a lot to live has inflation just goes up at a much faster rate then wages. The big issue is that the top 1% people just make way to much money. I do wonder because more and more people like want to leave CA if at some point in time other states will start to increase a lot to live in to because more people will move there so you will have like more supply and demand type of thing.

My niece and her husband got the heck out of there a couple years back. They have gone on record saying it was the best thing they ever did.

Where did they move? Where do you live?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

If literally 50% of the population of California was about to leave... I'll leave it at that. The rest shouldn't have to be said to point out that such a statement simply is not so.

 

[spiderman2]

If literally 50% of the population of California was about to leave... I'll leave it at that. The rest shouldn't have to be said to point out that such a statement simply is not so.

Are you saying that 50% thing just speaks volumes and that I shouldn't even like have to hear it from people I known?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Are you saying that 50% thing just speaks volumes and that I shouldn't even like have to hear it from people I known?

The way you are communicating is filled with A LOT of errors, so maybe it's not clear to me, however if you are saying that you believe that literally HALF of the population of the state of California is wishing to leave it... I'm sorry but that's just not so.

A poll where 4,527 people were asked out of a state with a population of over 39 and half million people is not exactly convincing of anything.

 

[spiderman2]

The way you are communicating is filled with A LOT of errors, so maybe it's not clear to me, however if you are saying that you believe that literally HALF of the population of the state of California is wishing to leave it... I'm sorry but that's just not so.

A poll where 4,527 people were asked out of a state with a population of over 39 and half million people is not exactly convincing of anything.

Oh ok I got you yeah 4527 out of 39 million people is a small amount for a poll.

 

[MovieSlave]

Are CA and Portland the only states you have lived in before? I have heard like 50% of people want to leave CA that live here and I am hearing more people saying they want out to. I known ever where cost a lot to live has inflation just goes up at a much faster rate then wages. The big issue is that the top 1% people just make way to much money. I do wonder because more and more people like want to leave CA if at some point in time other states will start to increase a lot to live in to because more people will move there so you will have like more supply and demand type of thing.



Where did they move? Where do you live?

I've only lived in CA and now Portland OR. A few other friends have moved up here and one of my closest ones moved to Arizona with his gf and two kids. They like it there despite the heat.

I'm not sure what I want to do as far as living situation. If I want to stay and try to find a better paying job or look at other places to love. All in all, CA sucks unless you're a yuppy or internet starter. Sorry I can't remember what that industry phase is called that came after the Silicon Valley types. The one primarily composed of millennial aged people.

 

[Dr.]

At first I thought you meant Canada...

I thought Captain America.

 

[Sundancer]

I lived in Bakersfield for a few months last year,. It took me at least three trips to the DMV to get my new license. That and CA charges for shopping bags. Ugh.

 

[Hobgoblin]

What you say about California sounds a lot like Illinois.

 

[Immortalfire]

Where did they move? Where do you live?

They are now in Texas, I am in Georgia.

 

[Donner]

I lived in Bakersfield for a few months last year,. It took me at least three trips to the DMV to get my new license. That and CA charges for shopping bags. Ugh.

Charging for shopping bags is a good thing.

 

[Sundancer]

Good things can be annoying. Ask anyone with kids.

 

[Teelie]

I use my own bags whenever possible anyways. They are biodegradable ones that hold a lot more weight than those flimsy plastic bags do. I have stuffed two 8 packs of canned soda water in them with a box of laundry detergent and whatever other groceries would fit and still not stress the bag to breaking despite being only slightly larger in volume to a plastic bag.

California is somewhere I have wanted to visit but the housing prices especially in urban areas make me think living there might be too much to handle.

 

[MovieSlave]

Charging for shopping bags is a good thing.

How so?

For me that was yet another thing that was passed in CA just trying to get more money out of people. They went crazy over the past decade or so with more and more taxes and bs charges like that.

 

[Donner]

Because if it pisses you off so much to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag that ends up in the landfill or the ocean, use a recyclable bag.

 

[MovieSlave]

Because if it pisses you off so much to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag that ends up in the landfill or the ocean, use a recyclable bag.

Meh

 

[Donner]

Typical response.

 

[MovieSlave]

Typical response.

Well I think it's all overblown. Not to mention, putting a tax (basically what it really is) on plastic bags isn't going to get people to stop using them en masse.

 

[Donner]

Well I think it's all overblown. Not to mention, putting a tax (basically what it really is) on plastic bags isn't going to get people to stop using them en masse.

What is overblown? The amount of plastic in our oceans? Are you serious?

So basically, if the 10 cents doesn't stop enough people from using plastic bags, it should just be scrapped?

This is why it's so frustrating to get any sort of environmentally friendly laws passed. People like you are an all or nothing group. Unless the 10 cents causes everyone to stop using plastic bags, then it's not worthwhile even though every little bit helps. And really, getting bent out of shape over 10 cents is hilarious.

 

[MovieSlave]

What is overblown? The amount of plastic in our oceans? Are you serious?

So basically, if the 10 cents doesn't stop enough people from using plastic bags, it should just be scrapped?

This is why it's so frustrating to get any sort of environmentally friendly laws passed. People like you are an all or nothing group. Unless the 10 cents causes everyone to stop using plastic bags, then it's not worthwhile even though every little bit helps. And really, getting bent out of shape over 10 cents is hilarious.

Or they can just raise it more. I don't live in CA anymore so an increase wouldn't affect me and to be honest I don't use plastic bags because I do try to do my part to keep things clean. Also, as a lover of animals I do care about pollutants ending up in our oceans. So the "overblown" bit wasn't about just how much trash is affecting the ecosystem.

 

[Iceman]

I thought Captain America.

This thread is clarifying that Captain America and Canada both suck, as does Captain Canada.