And now, a brief musical interlude...

"Texas boy goes viral for singing "God Bless America" to bald eagle at the zoo"
https://notthebee.com/article/...ald-eagle-at-the-zoo

"When asked why he started singing to the bird, Ezekiel told News 4 San Antonio,

* * * Because there's a bald eagle, the flag, because I saw it, then I started singing, so that's why."

We got hosed in the mid terms in Arizona also. Sadly a trifecta governor, and both houses of legislature now D. Some are saying not to worry too much as a good number of D Arizonans are pro 2A, but I am still wary

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Originally posted by captain127:
We got hosed in the mid terms in Arizona also. Sadly a trifecta governor, and both houses of legislature now D. Some are saying not to worry too much as a good number of D Arizonans are pro 2A, but I am still wary

You should be extremely wary. Never trust a democrat.

"old rugged cross: wtf did Texans think was going to happen when they voted for the leftest nut jobs or sat on their hands?"
I will never! believe Texas 'voted' them in.

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Originally posted by oddball:

You're moving to another state, ironically exactly the same as Californians moving from a place they no longer can deal with, to somewhere better. So you're not different from the those you lambast, 'eh?

No. First I’m not herding it with millions of other people. I made the decision to go rural a long time ago. NOT to some major city or metroplex that already has people flooding in.

That actually heavily factored into my decision making. I looked at Florida. You know the weather, no state income tax, etc. But quickly found, and this was in the teens, not during Covid, that Cali was flooding into Florida but so were New Yorkers and lots of East Coast folks. So I scratched it off. Next was NC, because I’m a motorcyclist. NC has some of the best twisty, mountain, motorcycle roads in all of the US. Quickly found out, as we saw with this election, same thing. Tons of Northern East Coast people were already flooding in there as well. I didn’t want to add to that problem, so that was scratched off the list. Same thing for Tennessee. 2A state, political ideology I agreed with (before all the liberals moved there), but same problem, tons of people already flooding into there as well. A lot of Cali liberal people moving to Nashville and the surrounding suburbs. So that was a scratch as well.

I did this for years. Online research. Making calls. Visiting places, you know spending my money. This is why it took me years as I’m not wealthy and couldn’t hit numerous areas at the same time. Lots of road trips with the K9. I probably spent about 7 years on this project due to limited money and time off. I had a wide circle with a lot of states and slowly places would get removed. If I found a migration problem already occurring, it was skipped. I took that existing problem into consideration and decided to not add to the problem. I ended up finding numerous areas that people weren’t cackling about online and places where I was going to get what I want. The harder path but worth it. I really hated to lose NC as it was at the top of my list but it was a necessary choice and that one hurt, and hurt bad.

So no, not the same thing, at all. The biggest trick for anyone considering relocating. Get away from any major city or metroplex. Go rural. Be 90-100 miles from any major city. What I found is most want all the fast food joints, chain restaurants, chain stores, etc. If you are willing to get away from all that your options go wide open. You’ll get land, great mom and pop restaurants and businesses. Just move within decent driving distance for say a car dealership (service/warranty) and from medical. I’ve got that with my land 30 minutes away but my land is chopper service for emergency medical. Regular doctor visits and such will be 30 minutes away but anything more than that will be 90 miles. And nah, people aren’t flooding into where I’ll end up. Most of the land in the county is BLM so it’s just not possible for people to flood in now, or the future.

For anyone interested look at the senatorial election map from this past election. I quickly located 13 states that are red. If looking to relocate, look at those 13 states and go rural.

Oh and about your theory that Republicans just stayed home during this past election. I looked that up. More Republicans voted during this midterm election than the last one.

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but same problem, tons of people already flooding into there as well

Liberals destroy a state (case in point: kali), make it uninhabitable, find a survivable state (as was Colorado), move there, and flush it as well.

We're dealing with a phenomenon of monkeys who are too stupid to understand why you shouldn't crap in the same place you eat. The only solution is to move to a place nobody wants. The Mojave?

Here I thought Texas was a state where owning guns (plural) was almost mandatory.