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t1_iy8a6v0 wrote

Texas just really thriving under Abbott.

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t1_iy8n3xs wrote

This shit happens everywhere. Like yah we have a lot of reasons to dunk on Abbott, but this is a typical infrastructure issue that happens

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t1_iy9a2yt wrote

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t1_iy9bmtm wrote

Houston is a big blue city and the water plant is run by the city and not the state. Not that it even matters, mechanical failures happen in every state and everywhere has transformers that blow.

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t1_iy9dvi0 wrote

You cannot possibly be using Michigan, with the most famous case of unclean tap water in modern history, as better than Texas in this regard, right?

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t1_iy9eosj wrote

One city, vs. The SECOND largest state.

Try again.

We have glacial springs feeding my munii systems water, not recycled sewage.

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t1_iy9ik24 wrote

Houston is also one city. Did you think the entire state of Texas had a boil water order?

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t1_iy8fbrq wrote

Texans outside of Houston see it as a Democrat run city, so anything bad that happens is "proof" that Democrats can't do anything right.

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t1_iy90g27 wrote

The water plant IS run by the city of Houston. And it was fixed in 24 hours, and there is no contamination in the water. This story is a nothing burger.

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t1_iy8agnn wrote

So is California under Newsom.

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t1_iy8bifm wrote

It is tho, California owns and he’s crushing NIMBYs and they’re about to be making insulin

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t1_iy8ccve wrote

Rofl ok how much of your tax dollars? Wonder why more people are moving out then in to California

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t1_iy8co3f wrote

Those people are poors. Shouldn't you be cutting down trees for heat? Winter is coming

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t1_iy8cz0h wrote

People are too poor to buy 7 dollars a gallon of gas and sky rocketing crime... good one.. and no I don't have to.. I live in Florida which was one of the most states people moved to.

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t1_iy8er2s wrote

My gas is 430, crime is increasing everywhere. Stop basing your opinions off Grandma's Facebook posts.

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t1_iy8f2ds wrote

Lol crime is increasing at the rate of California? Why are shops closing up in San Francisco and LA? it's a cesspool.

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t1_iy8dmtl wrote

Fellow Floridian here, how you enjoying your home insurance rates?

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t1_iy8duav wrote

Better than california. That's why people are moving here from California.. as the person in the first comment said... those people are poor if they can't afford it.

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t1_iy8e4nu wrote

People are moving from California to Florida because they prefer our home insurance crisis?

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t1_iy8ehb6 wrote

Cheap gas. Cheap everything. No income tax. Over 400k people moved here what do you expect? Move to California if it's cheaper and they have no "crisis"

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t1_iy8f73q wrote

Explain to me why the gas is cheaper here, because I seriously doubt you understand it in any form. Start with this simple question: how does California get its gas compared to Florida?

And no, people didn't move because it's cheaper. They moved because of lax pandemic restrictions. If people were just generally moving here because it is cheap, you would see red and blue both coming, but that's not what's happening. There's some other factors like a growing tech industry in Miami, but its mostly COVID restrictions.

And yeah, no income tax is nice. Florida has had that for forever though and it isn't tied to why people are currently moving.

Cali is currently running at a surplus, so it's not like they are fiscally drowning.

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t1_iy8fbye wrote

So then move out of the state. Go to California if it's so much better.

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t1_iy8g85l wrote

Ah yes, the classic: "just move!".

Let me ring up all my family and see if I can coordinate a mass move. We stay here due to both my wife and I having family close. I'll have to get my employer to agree to a relocation away from the state I specialize in. After that I will need to sell my house while coordinating the move of a dog, cats, and chickens. My kids will have to say goodbye their friends and school.

Like bro, if I could freely move, I wouldn't be living in this country lol.

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t1_iy8gqwf wrote

The majority of people leaving reported an annual income of less than $100,000, while the state has seen an influx of those making $100,000 and more

Poor people are leaving California while wealthy are moving in…

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t1_iy8kub6 wrote

You realize overall cost of living in Cali is cheaper than Texas ?

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t1_iy8kxll wrote

Rofl that's why people are moving out than moving in

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t1_iy8l54v wrote

the Covid migration is over, you need to keep the fuck up buddy

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t1_iy8l8hm wrote

More people are moving out of Texas and into California? Rofl okay sure buddy

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t1_iy8larc wrote

Click the link and burst ya bubble.

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t1_iy8lhe3 wrote

Lol sure lol how mad are you? How many new residents in Texas from Cali rofl

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t1_iy8ll9e wrote

I’m chillin dude but you apparently prefer feelings over facts 💀

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t1_iy8lvlv wrote

More People are moving out of California than moving in. Post or pre covid.. have fun with your high taxes and 6 dollars for gas... facts Broooo

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t1_iy8m8mp wrote

Lol $6 my ass 💀 and by the way I’m in Florida, yanno, the place where it’s become the most expensive place to live (higher than cali) because of home insurance exodus, rising rent and a dumb fuck governor who completely ignores these problems

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t1_iy8d4um wrote

CA did just become the world's 4th largest economy, overtaking Germany. They even beat out Texas' joblessness rate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-24/california-poised-to-overtake-germany-as-world-s-no-4-economy

>Still, with just 40 million people, the California economy is punching above its weight on the world stage. Job creation is a particularly strong area, with unemployment falling to 3.9% in July, the lowest since data was compiled in 1976, before rising to 4.1% in August. The gap separating the state from the US national rate of 3.5% is the narrowest since August 2021 and for the first time since 2006, California's joblessness dipped below Texas (the largest two states for non-farm payrolls).

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t1_iy8dlrf wrote

Over 300,000 people moved out of the state last year.. have fun paying 7-8 dollars for gas

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t1_iy8f49i wrote

Ya poor people moved out.. And plenty moved in..

Worlds 4th largest economy… not in the country.. The Worlds 4th largest economy.

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t1_iy8fnsw wrote

Lmao, imagine having to boil water and heat your home with literal coals and still screeching lies about how bad CA is.

Keep this shit in your outhouse. Or did y’all somehow fuck those up, too?

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t1_iy8pl5b wrote

Growing up back east I was raised that a earthquake was gonna separate California from the US and it was gonna float away…

When I told my family and friends that I’m selling everything and moving to California they thought I was crazy.. “your crazy, your gonna get killed, what are you gonna do? Fires, earthquakes!! Ahhh” you’ll be back..

20+ years here and I have some incredible opportunities that would have never happened anywhere else… I came here with legit nothing, and have an entire world to show for it. (Homes,cars, kids, businesses,)

My friends and family I still talk to are back home still doing the same shit they were when I left…

I have always thought, they were the crazy ones continuing to go through the same shit instead of taking a chance on something new..

At the end of the day, now I pray that California will break off an float away, as long Vegas can come with us. 🫶

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t1_iy8eyk7 wrote

> Have fun paying 7-8 dollars for gas

Even at the height of the oil price spike gas was not $7-8. The average around CA is about $5, but even here in LA county I haven't paid that much per gallon in months.

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t1_iyajis8 wrote

Sure, but as a Californian, did you factor in the cost of you having to buy waders to swim through a sea of dirty gov-supplied drug needles to the gas pump, the the dozens of homeless drug addicts surrounding the pump that you are required by law to give your money to, and the cost of your legislated penis removal in order to buy gas while someone yells at you for being white? /s, but I mean consider the type of drooling moron you are replying to lol.

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t1_iy8hjr8 wrote

40 million people in the state and they should give a shit about less than 1% leaving? That sounds like less than expected after the mass exodus from cities during and after covid.

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t1_iy8uoc7 wrote

I would like to point out.

California 40 million people - 97,437 covid deaths

Florida 22 million people - 82,875 covid deaths

So California has 18 million more people but only had 14,562 more deaths..

So maybe relocating due to the fact that some states didn’t take a global pandemic seriously may not be the best way to gage where to move.

But they are correct, the gas is a $1 cheaper…

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t1_iy8if16 wrote

> Over 300,000 people moved out of the state last year

How many moved in?

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