Depressing news: Californians moving into Texas

[karlac]

I also love Texas gas stations. Awesome snacks and some unique. Went to a friends service at the dfw cemetery for service members, that one you take 20 to as if going to or from 45. Station had an awesome selection of jerky! And I went to the bucees off 35 near Denton. That was overwhelming. Lol

Buc-ee's, like Whataburger, gotta love Texas ...

 

[JeepFiend]

Just my opinion, but the folks ruining Texas are the same folks that moved to CA and ruined it. They're like a virus. They destroy one area, move to the next healthy area, destroy that, and move on again. San Diego used to be a great place to live, it was affordable but not cheap, very conservative, and very military oriented.

 

[Brains]

I worked for a company in Los Angeles for shy of a couple years, and I learned a LOT about the left coast culture. None of it positive. The amount of backstabbing was monumental. If you were in a position someone could take advantage of or leverage for their personal gain, watch out. If you were the low man and struggling, you were tossed aside or outright ignored. If you were at the top of your game, people were REALLY nice to you, but were quietly waiting for an exploitable flaw. Lies were seen as a normal component of communication. I could go on and on.

One of the funniest situations looking back, I was on one of my quarterly in-office visits to the area and a few of us went to lunch (in the VP's Prius, of course). They were trying to encourage me to relocate to the area so I could be in-office more frequently. I knew of course there was no way in hell that was happening, but to humor them I brought up the subject of housing and how it would be prohibitively difficult to downgrade so significantly. They talked about how certain areas weren't so bad, and at that moment we happened to be driving through a typical residential area of El Segundo. I asked them about the cost of a home like those we were passing (3 br, 1 or 2ba, ~1200 sq. ft.). They said "oh they're pretty reasonable, about 600k to 800k." I balked, and one of the lower level guys incredulously asked "well what are you expecting?" I replied "Something similar to what I'm in now. 2200sq. ft., 3br, 2.5ba, 2car. How much would that be?" (This was over 10 years ago). "Oh there's no way, you're looking at well over a million. How much is your house???" They actually stopped talking when I told them I paid $117k lol. Later at the lunch table someone asked what the house looked like, so I showed him Google Street View. They weren't happy.

 

[AustinN4]

https://www.kvue.com/mobile/article...into-austins-real-estate-market/269-608008889

Old news, we have know this for many years.

 

[AustinN4]

What always gets me is how many new transplants say how redneck/retarded/primitive/backwards we are yet here they are.

That's 'cause they want to change us in their image.

 

[AustinN4]

Already a hunnerd threads on this.

Why search when you can just open a new thread? Happens even when the original thread is still current and active.

 

[toddnjoyce]

That's 'cause they want to change us in their image.

As a native Texan that spent 17 of my 24 AF years exiled, this is what bothers me most.

I've written several posts on the impact domestic migration has had on Texas over the past 15 or so years. I don't want to get started with a benglish length post here, but the net effect has been to dilute the Texas culture to a point where it's changing negatively nearly everything I cherish about this state.

And to everyone who says change is inevitable, I believe that as much as I believe that immigration without assimilation is invasion. And that, my friends is what we face. Otherwise, that socialist jackoff Bate-Oh wouldn't have garnered $60M in campaign funds with 40% of it being out of state.

God damn it; now I fired up.

 

[karlac]

Why search when you can just open a new thread? Happens even when the original thread is still current and active.

One of the problems is that the now not so new software does not allow more than around 10 posts/page. PITA scrolling through 15 to 25 pages to see what has been posted. 40 posts a page would make that much easier.

If there is a way to increase the number of posts per page like in the old site software, please let me know.

 

[karlac]

As a native Texan that spent 17 of my 24 AF years exiled, this is what bothers me most.

I've written several posts on the impact domestic migration has had on Texas over the past 15 or so years. I don't want to get started with a benglish length post here, but the net effect has been to dilute the Texas culture to a point where it's changing negatively nearly everything I cherish about this state.

And to everyone who says change is inevitable, I believe that as much as I believe that immigration without assimilation is invasion. And that, my friends is what we face. Otherwise, that socialist jackoff Bate-Oh wouldn't have garnered $60M in campaign funds with 40% of it being out of state.

God damn it; now I fired up.

LOL
Try an age based perspective of what Texas was like in the early 50's when we moved here from Louisiana so Dad could go to grad school at UH.

Compared to now, that'll really frost your nuts ...

AAMOF, so much so I'm kinda enjoy fishing time in AR more and more, to the point Houston can kiss my ass.

 

[AustinN4]

One of the problems is that the now not so new software does not allow more than around 10 posts/page. PITA scrolling through 15 to 25 pages to see what has been posted. 40 posts a page would make that much easier.

If there is a way to increase the number of posts per page like in the old site software, please let me know.

Not a problem for me as when I come here, the first thing I do is click the New Posts button, and then when I go to a thread with new posts it takes me to the first (oldest) new post in that thread and I go from there,

 

[diesel1959]

What always gets me is how many new transplants say how redneck/retarded/primitive/backwards we are yet here they are.

. . . and then they rave about their CA DMV. When all I hear about on other forums is how messed up it can be to get certain vehicles registered there or how they have to pay "Non-Op" registration fees even if that vehicle isn't driven for years! California is a disease and just because Californians move out, that doesn't mean they're not carriers. Just saying.

 

[oldag]

Put the National Guard on I10...

 

[Lunyfringe]

it's not just Texas... they're like roaches: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/rea...-homes-in-idaho-for-monopoly-money/ar-BBOQn6y

A thread on this elsewhere brought to light a great bumper sticker or T-Shirt idea:

"F U and the Prius you rode in on" (pairs well with "Don't Californicate my Texas")

 

[TheMailMan]

It is not just californians moving here that will have a negative effect on Texas. There are also those from oregon, colorado, illinois, washington, new york and etc.

I have a friend that said anyone from north of the Red River is a yankee.

Hey! I'm from Oregon and I'm happy as hell to be in Texas. I have NO intention of changing anything.

My dad is from Oklahoma. His dad is from Arkansas, his mom is from Oklahoma. Grandpa and grandma loaded a stake bed Ford truck with their belongings and seven kids and left Oklahoma in 1942 so grandpa could work a defense job in Idaho. My roots are southern.

Conservatives are welcome. Liberals aren't.

I'm a knuckle dragging Conservative that's just to the right of Attila the Hun.

 

[TheMailMan]

it's not just Texas... they're like roaches: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/rea...-homes-in-idaho-for-monopoly-money/ar-BBOQn6y

A thread on this elsewhere brought to light a great bumper sticker or T-Shirt idea:

"F U and the Prius you rode in on" (pairs well with "Don't Californicate my Texas")

That article was a good read. Shows how much Idaho has changed in 40 year.

40 years ago the population of Boise was 70k and there were less than 700k in the whole state.

There was ONE McDonald's in the WHOLE state.

Nampa where I grew up is now a hotbed of Latino gang activity.

 

[karlac]

Not a problem for me as when I come here, the first thing I do is click the New Posts button, and then when I go to a thread with new posts it takes me to the first (oldest) new post in that thread and I go from there,

Understand. Although it seems like it shouldn't be that difficult to code an option to increase posts/page.

I use mostly the "watched threads" link first.
Miss a day or two and the new posts in a popular thread can reach many pages.

Lot easier to scroll through that many on the old software - which would seem to help keep down duplicate posts/answers, and encourage reading through them before posting (which was the complaint mentioned above), and especially if one wants to go back to read a quoted post and/or reply to a post buried pages back.

That said, I prefer the new software, and the above is just a minor issue, and no big deal.

 

[AustinN4]

FIFY: That said, I prefer the new software, and the above, unlike Californians, is just a minor issue, and no big deal.

 

[MTA]

I just got back to Texas and I am surprised and disgusted at the change

Part of me wishes I hadnt returned so atleast when I thought of Texas, Id just remember growing up here as a kid. Wife is already chomping at the bit to pull up stakes and move on :/

 

[karlac]

I just got back to Texas and I am surprised and disgusted at the change

Part of me wishes I hadnt returned so atleast when I thought of Texas, Id just remember growing up here as a kid. Wife is already chomping at the bit to pull up stakes and move on :/

Had that feeling coming back to Texas in 1972, after 6 years in the service, when seeing Texas government officials allowing dozens of obvious illegals to gather on street corners looking for work, all the while publicly complaining they couldn't find them to deport for being illegal.

Was that naive ... few years later tax payer money was being used to build them there own special places on the roadside for that activity.

 

[Moonpie]

I just got back to Texas and I am surprised and disgusted at the change

Part of me wishes I hadnt returned so atleast when I thought of Texas, Id just remember growing up here as a kid. Wife is already chomping at the bit to pull up stakes and move on :/

Trouble is Where ya gonna go?
Everywhere with freedom, low taxes, cost of living, etc is being invaded by the people from liberal Shiteholes.
Just this morning I was reading an article about how californians have wrecked home housing prices in the Boise, ID area. Locals can’t afford to buy a house there anymore.