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Originally posted by az4783054:
We have so many people moving to AZ from out of state. 122,000 people moved here in 2017-2018 alone. When we meet the new neighbors they ask where we're from, we're natives. We ask them, they're from CA, NY, NJ, MI, WA, OR, or some other liberalized state.

They complain they left because of cold weather, politics, taxes, etc. Then they begin to complain about AZ crime, summer heat, traffic congestion, dust storms, etc.

I have no patience with people who come to AZ and immediately want to change it to wherever they fled from. So I tell them to go back to where they came from if they dislike AZ so much. My wife cringes but she won't say it.

The other day a new couple from OH asked us to meet them for lunch. I apologized to them when we sat down. When the woman asked why, I said I'm going to say something offensive to you if you complain about AZ.

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The farmer put up a small billboard on his property that read something like "this is my families farm, it has been a farm since 19XX and will continue to be a farm."

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:

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Originally posted by elde:
The People's Republic of Austin is now spreading throughout the state thanks primarily to illegals, NY'ers, Californians, etc. And you can add the millennials and "the homeless" into the mix as well. What was once a great state that stood for individualism and opportunity is turning into yet another blue nanny state. Never thought I'd live to see the day.

One of my closest friends lives in Austin proper, South Austin but not the ritz area, further south where homes used to be affordable. His taxes are now 1k a month. It was a blue collar neighborhood before all the West and East coast assholes moved there and turned it into Hollywood 2.0. Most of the movie studios have offices there now I hear. Anyway, my friend. Married, 2 kids, and he’s Mr. Dad, old school style. He turns 40 this month. His son, about 2 years ago, was shooting his BB gun at some targets. Backstop, fully protected, etc. Like I said they don’t play. Neighbor across the street calls 911 and APD rolls. Turns out it’s some bitch from Kalifornia who heard “gun shots” and got skurrred. Police obviously don’t cite (iirc, he said 3 squad cars) and she walks over to my friend and says guns scare her, she thought it was a gun, and they don’t allow that kind of thing in Kalifornia. He was livid. I would be too.

I agree too. They first invaded Austin, but it’s terrible up here in DFW now too. I hear they are infiltrating San Antonio now, and many parts of Texas. It will go blue over time, bet your ass on it. Why they all wanted to come here escapes me but affordable housing is going the way of the dodo. I talk to my neighbors and we all agree, at some point we’ll get pushed out of here due to taxes. We’re also #2 in the country for H1B Visas so to add insult in injury it’s turning into Commifornia and Little India at the exact same time. So many FOB’s here you wouldn’t believe it. When I go to Costco I’m the minority now. And I don’t mean white/black, I mean FOB’s, Indians and Muslims. Several times I’ve been in there looking for my food as they’ll move stuff. I’ve turned around to see a full black burka, the one with just the eyes cutout. Both times I had my hand on the grip. Crazy days. I’m definitely here for my job. After that I’m getting the fuck out.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
There is liberal insanity here in the Frozen North as well. Marquette County is the only county in the Yoop that did not vote Trump. I attribute this to the influence of our local college and hospital, which import a large number of Leftists.
Thank God for our winters, which tend to run off many of them.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
This is why I’m looking to jump ahead of the wave, enough to last a lifetime.

No need to full-time it in FL, AZ or the Carolinas. My bug out location is SE or SW, SD. Yes, still be a nomad to move around some, South on the Winter, whatever.

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Originally posted by Kevmo:

I am with you on this...Part of the reason our pollen and allergy seasons are so bad is because the idiots escaping their old states missed the plants they had so they introduced plant to the desert that were never supposed to be here.

It also burns me when there is something that has been I place for years and newcomers move in, knowing full well it is there but then act shocked and horrified so they start leading the charge to get rid of it. The 2 examples that come to mind it Scottsdale airport...It has been an airport since WWII but every year the a-holes that move into "the pattern" start whining about noise. The other, and my personal favorite was a farm that existed for years in the East Valley and, of course, as soon as people start moving near it they wanted it shut down. The farmer put up a small billboard on his property that read something like "this is my families farm, it has been a farm since 19XX and will continue to be a farm."

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Originally posted by az4783054:

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Originally posted by Kevmo:

I am with you on this...Part of the reason our pollen and allergy seasons are so bad is because the idiots escaping their old states missed the plants they had so they introduced plant to the desert that were never supposed to be here.

It also burns me when there is something that has been I place for years and newcomers move in, knowing full well it is there but then act shocked and horrified so they start leading the charge to get rid of it. The 2 examples that come to mind it Scottsdale airport...It has been an airport since WWII but every year the a-holes that move into "the pattern" start whining about noise. The other, and my personal favorite was a farm that existed for years in the East Valley and, of course, as soon as people start moving near it they wanted it shut down. The farmer put up a small billboard on his property that read something like "this is my families farm, it has been a farm since 19XX and will continue to be a farm."

Schnepf Farms? We lived within two miles of it for many years. Always had something going on around the year. Nice family. When we moved to Queen Creek there were approx 1,500 people and we knew most of them. When we moved out there were 15,000 people thanks to Johnson Ranch. Probably over 100,000 people now. They cleared thousands of acres of cotton fields and orchards to build cookie cutter houses.

Williams AFB was also close by and fun to watch the F16(?) jets fly overhead. It was patriotic and it didn't annoy us. Then they allowed cookie cutter houses to be built and pushed the Air Force out due to people complaining about noise. So they built the reliever airport and we had huge jets coming and going overhead day and night. It destroyed our rural lifestyle. We moved north. Our airport in Yavapai County will unfortunately suffer the same fate within a few years because of the homes being built around it.

The GM Proving Grounds got pushed out as well.

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Originally posted by Kevmo:


It was not Schnepf, smaller and more toward Power Rd, south of the 60.

I do know and see what you are talking about it QC, I used to go to County Thunder out there when it was at Schnepf Farms and it was a really cool rural community...Fast forward to the shit show it has become today. We will not be happy until we pave every inch of this valley!

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Originally posted by CA DuckHunter:


I realize this is in the RANT section, but I find your sweeping generalizations to be shallow. Are there more liberals in California, than conservatives - yes. Is California the king of nanny laws, unfortunately it probably is. But painting the whole state with such a broad brush shows either that you don't have interaction with a very large sample, or that you're panties are in such a bunch that you have thrown your objectivity out with the bath water.