Sloughing off the California skin

This coot finally had enough. The creeping cancer of government overreach in California finally forced me to sell our house in California and relocate to Texas. Texas wasn’t my first choice until I began to see how all the pretty states have been occupied by progressives.

Not to say that Texas is ugly or anything but it is an acquired taste. Texans are just as ‘full of themselves’ as Californians but for different reasons. I can’t abide California’s smug superiority any longer because the scales have long ago fallen from my eyes and I see the snake pit it has become. The jury is still out on Texans but since it took me 50 years to wake up to what a disaster California had become, I probably won’t live long enough to see Texas fall.

When I came to California in 1970, it was the ‘best’ state in the country. Roads, schools, government- whatever. I was stupid not to see how Jerry Brown would destroy the state. He stopped building freeways (because building freeways only encouraged more people to drive). That policy extended to all infrastructure including power plants so that today California doesn’t have enough water, power, roads, airports, etc for a state as big as California. In spite of Prop 13 -which allowed me to own a house which I bought for $185k in 1978 and sold in 2004 for $1.2m while remaining a middle class income earner- I saw no future staying in California. Sooner or later even progressives will see the rot.

I got out of Dodge last summer with no regrets.

Texas looks good on paper but I remain concerned for the future with the plenitude of Robert Francis election signs in my neighborhood. I am afraid that Texas is prime to be overrun with liberals too stupid to realize that their politics will destroy the state. Or maybe too stupid to care.