What is wrong with California?

[il Padrino Ute]

"Other 49 states no doubt formulating a plan to secede from California." - Dennis Miller

[Katy Lied]

I was listening to LA Radio when I hear this commercial inviting Californians to move to Boise, because it's better, cleaner, safer, etc. etc. The commercial featured a web site called www.bail2boise.com.

Boiseians looking down on Los Angelenos and inviting them to move to Boise?

[Paperback Writer]

I was listening to LA Radio when I hear this commercial inviting Californians to move to Boise, because it's better, cleaner, safer, etc. etc. The commercial featured a web site called www.bail2boise.com.

Boiseians looking down on Los Angelenos and inviting them to move to Boise?

"Winter is Coming". They've got to be hoping that any exploratory visits to Boise happen during the summer. Can't imagine anyone from LA visiting Boise in the winter and then relocating.

[Pelado]

"Winter is Coming". They've got to be hoping that any exploratory visits to Boise happen during the summer. Can't imagine anyone from LA visiting Boise in the winter and then relocating.

Can't imagine anyone from Boise visiting Nebraska during any season and then relocating.

[Paperback Writer]

Can't imagine anyone from Boise visiting Nebraska during any season and then relocating.

What makes you think Nebraska would let someone from Boise across their border and partake of "the good life". Potatoes > Corn? LOL.

My only point is that someone from LA who hasn't experienced an Idaho (or Nebraska) winter is in for a rude awakening. Not that Boise isn't a great place to live or has advantages over California. BTW, growing up I knew several families from Idaho living in Nebraska. For the most part, they liked it. Their main complaints were the small LDS population and distance from family. I haven't lived in Nebraska for a couple of decades and if I had to relocate from Texas, I'd probably pick Boise over Omaha/Lincoln and would complain constantly about Boise's winter climate.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I can't believe Boise is begging to be Californicated.

[Flystripper]

What makes you think Nebraska would let someone from Boise across their border and partake of "the good life". Potatoes > Corn? LOL.

My only point is that someone from LA who hasn't experienced an Idaho (or Nebraska) winter is in for a rude awakening. Not that Boise isn't a great place to live or has advantages over California. BTW, growing up I knew several families from Idaho living in Nebraska. For the most part, they liked it. Their main complaints were the small LDS population and distance from family. I haven't lived in Nebraska for a couple of decades and if I had to relocate from Texas, I'd probably pick Boise over Omaha/Lincoln and would complain constantly about Boise's winter climate.

My fam made the better option. Western NE to SoCal when I was 13. Whatever is wrong with CA is worth the trip!

[Uncle Ted]

I can't believe Boise is begging to be Californicated.

No, Idaho should have to take their share of these California refugees. We are getting overrun by them and their hybrid cars in Texas.

[Pelado]

I can't believe Boise is begging to be Californicated.

Boise has been bombarded with Californians for the last 20+ years. I don't know how many of them are from LA, though. So maybe PW has a point.

The realtor that runs that site is just trying to make some money off the Californians that are moving in anyway. I'm not sure, though, if his offer to reimburse travel costs to those who buy a home is legal.

Edit: And while Boise's winter is certainly colder than the LA equivalent, it is more mild than the Eastern Idaho or Wasatch front winters with which many of you are familiar.

[clackamascoug]

Condon, Oregon once put out a nationwide want ad for people to move there. They doubled their 400 population in 5 years.

[Uncle Ted]

Fixing California: State needs freer markets, fewer contraptions
[...]
California officials have gotten the general-fund budget in order after voters approved large tax increases last year. But the fundamental crises still are festering, as was detailed in the Fixing California introduction:


“California now has the highest rate of poverty in the nation. ... The state government is awash in debt, hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it stemming from the Cadillac salaries, pensions and retiree health-care benefits paid to state employees. ... The state that historically was among the last to fall into recession and among the first to pull out it, has flipped ...


“The educational performance of California students now ranks near the very bottom ... . The state lost 33 percent of its industrial base from 2001-2012, declining 11 percent more than in the United States as a whole ... . State and local government regulatory agencies are strangling the efforts of small and large businesses to expand. ... Many local governments are also in financial peril.”


Solutions, though, won’t be found in complex new rule-making or more spending.


What to do about the poverty rate? Unleash job creation by lowering tax rates and reducing the control of regulators. What to do about debt issues? Reduce the decade-long policy of pension and benefit enrichment, by holding the line in contract negotiations and by outsourcing services. One great idea: a proposed state pension-reform initiative that would let cities roll back pension benefits for current employees going forward.


What about the state’s public schools? Instead of tinkering with an immovable bureaucracy beset by outdated work rules that quash innovation, the state should unleash competitive pressures through vouchers, expanded charter schools and a more aggressive “parent trigger” system.


Sometimes the leadership gets it, epitomized by Gov. Jerry Brown’s support of hydraulic fracturing regulations that, although more cumbersome than necessary, allow this job-creating industry to grow. But such good news remains hard to come by.


As Professor Joel Kotkin, a Democrat, explained in a Fixing California installment published Oct. 27, California remains committed to a green politics that makes it tough for poorer people to get ahead. “Particularly damaging are steps to impose mandates for renewable energy that have made electricity prices in California among the highest in the nation and others that make building the single-family housing preferred by most Californians either impossible or, anywhere remotely close to the coast, absurdly expensive,” he wrote.


And California’s tax code seems designed to minimize growth, argued economist Art Laffer in a commentary on Nov. 10. “California does have the sunshine, that’s true, but to believe all your taxes are giving you a better quality of life and better public services is not true,” he wrote in the series about his 2006 move from California to Tennessee. He found that Californians enjoy poorer services because we overpay for them.

What California needs is amazingly simple — lower taxes to spur creative activity, a more reasonable regulatory climate, educational choice, less government intervention and more competition. These policies are not complex, but they are effective.
[...]

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/...ets/all/?print

What California needs is Walmarts that pay employees $15/hr. That will fix everything.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Too many people like this:

http://dailygarlic.com/picture/this-...e-planet-23122

I applaud the city council for not laughing out loud. It would have been interesting to see their faces.

[TripletDaddy]

Too many people like this:

http://dailygarlic.com/picture/this-...e-planet-23122

I applaud the city council for not laughing out loud. It would have been interesting to see their faces.

I cant get a full appreciation for this woman's intelligence. I caught glimpses of it but other times she was quick to cover up. If I had to categorize her, i would say her intelligence is above average, but on the whole it is sagging behind the intelligence of many women.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Too many people like this:

http://dailygarlic.com/picture/this-...e-planet-23122

I applaud the city council for not laughing out loud. It would have been interesting to see their faces.

I've attended a lot of councils meetings in various cities, and pretty much all of them have an open mic period where people can get up and say whatever they want. Invariably, each city I've visited has at least one regular nutjob who gets up each meeting and goes on for several minutes just like this wonderful woman. The parallels with certain F&T meetings are striking.

[Uncle Ted]

Too many people like this:

http://dailygarlic.com/picture/this-...e-planet-23122

I applaud the city council for not laughing out loud. It would have been interesting to see their faces.

Is this one of your exceptions to the big breasts rule?