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I was on the edge of the same decision. This move by the new district attorney in LA is so far beyond the pale that if it's not rescinded soon, I am gone too: "NEW: L.A. County DA George Gascon has issued a directive to prosecutors that the following misdemeanors will be declined for prosecution, with exemptions. -Trespassing -Disturbing the peace -Driving without license -Prostitution -Resisting arrest" This is an a…
I was on the edge of the same decision. This move by the new district attorney in LA is so far beyond the pale that if it's not rescinded soon, I am gone too: "NEW: L.A. County DA George Gascon has issued a directive to prosecutors that the following misdemeanors will be declined for prosecution, with exemptions. -Trespassing -Disturbing the peace -Driving without license -Prostitution -Resisting arrest" This is an a…
> They'd be attracted to municipalities that they know will not prosecute them. LOL, this makes as much sense as suggestions that members of $GROUP move to $STATE to achieve some political goal. Do you have any idea how vanishingly small the number of people who can actually just up and move somewhere is?
It's very easy if you have incentive, or if you have nothing keeping where you are. Career criminals have every incentive in the world to move to a city where they'll be treated lightly, and often nothing holding them back.
I was on the edge of the same decision. This move by the new district attorney in LA is so far beyond the pale that if it's not rescinded soon, I am gone too: "NEW: L.A. County DA George Gascon has issued a directive to prosecutors that the following misdemeanors will be declined for prosecution, with exemptions. -Trespassing -Disturbing the peace -Driving without license -Prostitution -Resisting arrest" This is an a…
>They'd be attracted to municipalities that they know will not prosecute them. Sounds like you have a really solid understanding of the sociological nature of crime! /s
Was there an influx of criminals from outside San Francisco? Or did law-abiding citizens turn to crime? Or did the crimes per criminal go up?
In any case, it was a disaster. Los Angeles deserves what it gets for voting him in.
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No they're not. You don't define the overton window, society does. I'm right of the democrats but I'm not far right, that's the society we live in.
This isn't up for debate. In economic terms, socialism is what the left looks like. Do you see anything that looks like "socialism" coming from the democratic party in the united states?
That's all socialism.
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A 2% tax rate on a home in Texas is much less in dollar terms than a 1% tax rate on a home of equivalent size in California
The challenge is if you need to work in tech and eventually need to commute daily/weekly to headquarters. You'll need to be within 30 minutes of Austin if you want to be in new tech (Apple, Google) or 30 minutes of Dallas/Houston if you are okay with legacy tech (HP, IBM). And you'll want to be in a good school district with like minded high income folks with restaurants options. You'll likely be paying close at best…
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You probably get far more for your money though. (Property/land-wise) I also remember reading stories years ago about CA/SV businesses that had offices up in Colorado as a back-up for when 'The Big One' hits.
Yes, ironically property taxes are much higher in Texas than California. And toll roads, etc... In short, the money has to come from somewhere — if not from income tax then it will be from somewhere else.
https://www.redfin.com/TX/Houston/9730-Arched-Oak-Dr-77095/h...
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So do people not need to renew their driver's license then? Or is there a fine? What if you don't pay the fine?
I'm more worried about those who have lost their license, e.g. due to multiple DWIs.
It should be legal to drive without a physical license. We're all stored inside the computer now.
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^ an Austin tradition typically reserved for the yearly SXSW festival, when the city is flooded with tourists during a time that has nicer-than-usual weather. It is also traditional to develop a cruel sense of joy when people begin complaining about how hot it is in early July, as you tell them it is about to get, somehow, _much_ hotter.
Houston in August is pretty much just misery. That said, we're pretty wimpy in the 40s and acting like it's the ice apocalypse when it's 30, so we earn similar ridicule.
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(I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice) I left California for Nevada many years ago, and I subsequently sold stock I accumulated while in California without paying state income tax. It is legal and you can do it, but there are a lot of legal hurdles. They're pretty well documented around page 5 of FTB 1031 [1]. In my case, I quit my W2 job in California, entered into a contract to lease a home in NV, got rid of…
I guess your case was extra special. I remained employed by the same company after moving from CA to AZ and the FTB never bothered me. The year I relocated, I filed my.. 540? after determining what income I earned while living in CA. And that was that. No issues with my options or RSUs either. Being married and having a child was also a non-issue.
And AZ isn't NV. The FTB pays special attention to NV in particular because it has no income tax. Someone who moves to AZ isn't so obviously trying to skirt CA state income tax.
My case was a little special because I sold a lot of stock right after leaving CA, which makes it a little suspicious to the FTB.
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If you don’t build luxury housing, affordable housing becomes luxury housing. San Francisco is a perfect example of NIMBY extremism and the damage it does to communities.
Just the opposite, every community has a right to decide their future. If a community says 'we'd rather be homes and don't want to turn everything in to high-rises' then that's entirely their discretion. It's definitely not any individual townships moral or civic responsibility to change their community to accommodate either state/national strategic planning, especially for the benefit of people who do not even live…
It’s the places that everyone want to live in that are crowded, and there are good reasons apartment blocks aren’t going up in farmland (this isn’t China where people are told to live outside the fifth or sixth ring road just because).