I left at the beginning of July in 2012, spent the next few months travelling on my bike. Took the coast south of course.
Fleeing WA for TX!
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Old Navy to Nordstrom: Half of retailers fleeing downtown San Francisco
Beset by rising crime, empty offices and fewer shoppers, more big retailers — including Nordstrom, Old Navy and Whole Foods — are fleeing or have already abandoned troubled downtown San Francisco.…
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Good move. We'll soon be making our fourth road trip to Texas (from California) over a period of only three months. We've found the negatives often circulated about Texas to be mostly overblown myths, and we've also found many positive surprises. Will probably be buying a house soon in the Galveston area.
I was looking around online last month and discovered that Washington State has numerous Red voting counties. The voting power, like so many other states, is concentrated in the major cities that control the electoral votes of the state. See the attached map that shows the red & blue counties. The same is true for OR and CA. My Texas friend that has lived in WA state for 30 years days it's not bad to live there as long as you stay out of the cities. He is not a gun owner but has very Texas values. I have no desire to move there but found it interesting to learn that there are conservative thinking pockets of people there.
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Don't tell Californians that. We have been working hard to create those myths.
If you live outside the Seattle metro area it isn't that bad. Taxes are MUCH lower (stupid billion dollar per mile light rail!) with less crime. Generally I think the people in Washington are pretty nice. Not Texas nice, but pretty nice. As I said above, it was a great state when we moved there in 2001, even gun friendly. I'm sad to be forced to flee. But I'm happy to be in Texas!
To the OP, welcome from a 60-year Washington resident. My wife and I moved to Aubrey, just north of Dallas, almost two years ago following our kids and grand kids who moved moved to Texas over a 5 year period. We love Texas but miss the scenery and climate in Washington plus friends and remaining family.
To the long time Texas residents, what we do not miss are the asinine liberal politics of west coast states. We do not miss losing every election and ballot measure by 60/40 and watching our rights be taken away by a small minority in the large cities. My wife and I are the 9th and 10th red vote to move to Texas from our family in the past 6 years.
That brings me to the tired, old "you’re a refugee not a missionary". Understand that there is a third category, "The Cavalry". Those of us that want our red votes to count for something and are here to help, so consider giving the refugee/missionary-thing a rest.
To the long time Texas residents, what we do not miss are the asinine liberal politics of west coast states. We do not miss losing every election and ballot measure by 60/40 and watching our rights be taken away by a small minority in the large cities. My wife and I are the 9th and 10th red vote to move to Texas from our family in the past 6 years.
That brings me to the tired, old "you’re a refugee not a missionary". Understand that there is a third category, "The Cavalry". Those of us that want our red votes to count for something and are here to help, so consider giving the refugee/missionary-thing a rest.
If they were smart they would have bailed out earlier.Old Navy to Nordstrom: Half of retailers fleeing downtown San Francisco
Beset by rising crime, empty offices and fewer shoppers, more big retailers — including Nordstrom, Old Navy and Whole Foods — are fleeing or have already abandoned troubled downtown San Francisco.…
The problem lies with the libs that control the cities, and thus the state governments. The conservative counties have only so much sway, and so much say as to what laws are passed and how they're enforced.
A lot of red county sheriffs said they wouldn't enforce gun laws, but some backpedalled when pressed about it. Some remained true. But that doesn't stop the state police coming in and enforcing said laws at the behest of the governor, who in both states has the authority to order the state LE agencies to action, along with appointing the superintendent / chief of the department.
Oregon State Police, for instance, has tended to be headed by "good" democrats, at least as long as I've been studying them. In my younger days, I wanted to be an OSP trooper, and came close once until the governor cut the OSP after losing a push for higher taxes and fired 250 troopers instead of hiring an additional 250.
The county I lived 36 years of my life in went from solid red, to purple, and now as of 2020, its another blue county. Intel and the goddamned third world imports they brought in, along with the host of Californians, New Yorkers, and Illinoisites (or whatever you call them) fucked it up.
Its not hard to find good people when you leave the urban areas, but their voice is silenced by the masses of braindead liberals. Eastern Oregon, Southern Oregon (outside of Ashland and Medford) are full of people very Texan-like. Same with Eastern Washington. That's why those states fight the idea of splitting them. 2020 saw the closest they've come yet to getting traction on the movement to create the State of Jefferson, or the Greater Idaho movement - but Republican and Libertarian folks are shit at organizing and uniting and holding meetings unlike the democrats. I guess they're too busy at work and taking care of families.
Hello jnynetwk, welcome to the great State of Texas. I’m just hoping you’re not bringing bad voting habits with you. The margin of victory for conservatives here in Texas have been decreasing every voting cycle for several years and I believe it’s because of the large influx of Liberals running away from craziness they voted for. Then too ignorant to change the way they vote in their new State. Help us keep Texas in conservative control.
You should never go full retard!
