I know the mass migrations have been happening from the Bay Area to various regions. My area has been generally conservative with a mostly well mannered, polite, suburban feel but I've seen some minor changes here and there over the past couple of years.

I would say as of today, the donkey has landed. The Bay Area idiots are now out in force and are an obvious infestation in the local region. Fucking idiots on the road. Fucking idiots in the stores. Fucking idiots wherever they are and whatever they do.

I'm glad that I'll have the option, I believe at this point, in 1-3 years to make some changes if needed (but still don't know where would be better in the long term). Seriously, these people are a pariah of the populace. I don't care how educated or wealthy they may be. They don't belong in a well mannered, polite society. They are uncouth, ill mannered, impolite, rude. And the worst part is that the stupid doesn't know they are stupid.

They don't call Kalifornia the land of fruits, nuts, and fairies for no reason. They are a plague on the rest of us. Too bad your long term residents can't "crack" some of these infesting nuts.

Welcome to my world. I can’t move right now, just can’t. Need more funds to make it possible. So I’m looking at 2, 3, maybe 5 years. And I don’t know how I’m going to remain sane. With millions flooding in, there are things I can no longer do anymore. And they are outs I need to make it all stick. With that removed, due to population influx, I don’t know how to stick it any longer.

Every single member of my family has moved out of California. We grew up there but it is not the same. Hasn’t been for awhile. I’m glad they have all moved (Texas and Florida) because I no longer have to go visit there. I hate seeing what it has become. When I was growing up I couldn’t imagine wanting to live anywhere else.

I know a fellow who moved from California after tiring of the decline of his community. He made zero effort to prevent it. No voting, no care about community events, no ownership. He has been let know he isn’t very welcome in his new home. Mostly people loudly talking negatively of the California refugees when they overhear his story.
Maybe one day if they Democrat hard enough it will all work out. In the mean time let’s just making it worse and worse.

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Originally posted by jed7s9b:
I know a fellow who moved from California after tiring of the decline of his community. He made zero effort to prevent it. No voting, no care about community events...........

Both the wife and I were born and lived in the Bay Area our whole lives. Got to the point it didn't matter who we voted for, we were outnumbered 3 to 1 by Demorats. And the community didn't care about the tax paying White people. It was no longer the place we grew up in.

But we didn't bring ANY OF THAT CRAP WITH US, we moved to get away from it.

My tiny little town always voted conservative. Now that housing prices are so high all the idiots from the east are coming out here and buying up all the land and building. They want all the big city crap that they couldn't afford to happen here. My property taxes have already tripled! Can't wait to get out of here and I curse my grandparents daily for immigrating here! Waiting for my wife's parents to go and then we're moving!

I grew up in the bay area. For a long time I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It's still a beautiful place outside of the cities. My whole family was there.

Now most of them are gone, I've been gone 12 years, and I couldn't imagine going back. It makes me sad.

I'm at my wits end myself, I lived in the Bay Area all my life and it's just a chore to even leave my home dealing with all the stuck up, rude/twats I have to navigate through on a daily basis.

Thank God I've been saving for a number of years that even though I'm barely 40 I can leave just about anytime now and move to Texas and buy a house cash with plenty of money left over.

Only thing holding me back is 2 things. First it was my health I had a very serious medical condition that nearly killed me and I finally got it taken care of. But I need a follow up surgery to make me whole again. The Second is my dam Mother I want her to retire in comfort and move in with me but all her stupid siblings are here.

California is a lost cause back when I was a kid it was a nice place to live but today I wish it would just fall into the ocean, people and all if they choose to stay here and if they have a means to get out.

Been going on down here for years... modern day carpet baggers or just folks trying to get away from the cold and not having a clue as to how hot it gets... then there are the 'halfbacks' that retired to Florida and then decided to move halfway back up.

THE LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING!

Also, I finally figured out why folks don't use their turn signals anymore.... they have their cellphones in their left hand up to their ear. Seems we need to get a government mandate to move the turn signal lever to a foot switch.....

I moved into my house before it was finished being built almost a half century ago. (I love saying that just for the shock effect). At the time the whole neighborhood was 12 houses, each on about an acre. Over the intervening decades most young people can't pungle up the cash for one of these very normal houses so the new neighbors include a majority of escapees from Cali, having sold their garage loft for a mil and a half.

There are lots of stories about the invasive species but this one is kind of a favorite-bear with me.

A new neighbor moved in from nowhere'svill, CA. Decent sort, right across the street. They (he and she, I'm assuming of course) moved in in late summer, long days. very pleasant, followed immediately by the welcome to the Pacific Northwest Party of 6 and a half hour days, with many weeks having rain every day, never much, just always. Cold sometimes, wet all times, dark a lot, much of one's time is spent inside.

Now comes spring, bright beautiful, warming; rain has turned to spring showers, it's why people live here.
So the neighbor hires a crew to build him a garden, very stylish and you never get tired when you have someone else do the stoop-work.
In the fullness of time, still spring though, I was at my mail box getting the bills and my new neighbor hails me and says he's been meaning to talk to me. I'm good with that, I like to talk. He tells me that my trees are shading his garden and wonders if I could cut them or top them so his what-the-fuck-evers could get more daylight.
I looked at my yard, the trees in question are toward the back of my lot, and offer sound, light and wind protection for the house and garden and so forth. The wind coming up the hill from the sound can be fearsome.

I said 'no', politely. He responded by telling me he would pay for the cutting and we could split the wood, he now has a gov't approved wood burning stove.'No',again.

'Why not?" he says, "They just stand there."

I explained, truly, in a friendly manner, that the trees, western red cedars, were there when he moved in as they had been for the last 150 years, give or take, when the last shipyard on my island paradise shut down...for lack of trees, and no I won't top them and I won't cut them.
He suggested that I be more reasonable. I guess I wasn't as reasonable was he hoped I'd be. I might misremember his exact words because that's the last conversation we had and its been about four years, but I think the last syllable was "you".

Based on his multi-colored yard signs I don't think he's a conservative.

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Originally posted by wishfull thinker:
I moved into my house before it was finished being built almost a half century ago. (I love saying that just for the shock effect)

My house was built in 1919.

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Originally posted by dfens:
I'm at my wits end myself, I lived in the Bay Area all my life and it's just a chore to even leave my home dealing with all the stuck up, rude/twats I have to navigate through on a daily basis.

Thank God I've been saving for a number of years that even though I'm barely 40 I can leave just about anytime now and move to Texas and buy a house cash with plenty of money left over.

Only thing holding me back is 2 things. First it was my health I had a very serious medical condition that nearly killed me and I finally got it taken care of. But I need a follow up surgery to make me whole again. The Second is my dam Mother I want her to retire in comfort and move in with me but all her stupid siblings are here.

California is a lost cause back when I was a kid it was a nice place to live but today I wish it would just fall into the ocean, people and all if they choose to stay here and if they have a means to get out.

Sounds like a great setup for Falling Down II

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They are uncouth, ill mannered, impolite, rude. And the worst part is that the stupid doesn't know they are stupid

^^^^^^^^^
Move to the South outside of the urban areas. People are nice and helpful. Rural Wisconsin was like that as well. It is just too cold.

I grew up in San Francisco. My favorite memory was the bus dropping me off at the top of the steepest incline going down to my Junior High School. Early mornings, I can smell the eucalyptus trees in the air.

High school, we'd drive at night through downtown, Golden Gate Park, etc.

I'd people watch on Market and Mission.

After I moved out of San Francisco but still in the Bay Area, I didn't have much reason to go into San Francisco other than relatives.

After I moved out of California and into Arizona, I don't really have any reason to go back to California except for future funerals I suppose and only for close relatives.