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The article does touch on abortions, but brushes it off in a way that I found rather shocking given the gravity of the situation.
Moving to Texas
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#12Why Texas and not Arizona, or Florida or some other state?
Well. I’ve spent some time working on retirement options since my wife and I are close. Arizona really has nothing to recommend it. Florida does, but southern Florida is kind of a wasteland with pending climate issues and northern Florida is a trashy hell hole. I have family there. If not for the cultural issues it would be a no brainer but who wants to retire somewhere awful? Taxes-wise, I think California is underr…
What makes Florida recommendable where Arizona is not?
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#13Why Texas and not Arizona, or Florida or some other state?
Well. I’ve spent some time working on retirement options since my wife and I are close. Arizona really has nothing to recommend it. Florida does, but southern Florida is kind of a wasteland with pending climate issues and northern Florida is a trashy hell hole. I have family there. If not for the cultural issues it would be a no brainer but who wants to retire somewhere awful? Taxes-wise, I think California is underr…
Miami is pretty nice if you have money
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#15Lower taxes, great food, more open space, less expensive property, more freedom to do what you want as long as you don't hurt others. The only problem with Texas is that the economy is too dependent on fossil fuel. It's basically a mini petro state. They need to use that oil money to diversify into other industries. I'm not sure if they have been doing that or not, but I don't exactly have faith that the political cl…
Pretty sure the Texas political class is thinking about their long-term plans to usher in a new era of Christofascism, starting with the bounty hunter abortion law.
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#17Texas is a great state. My entire family lives there. The scrub oak regions are quite nice. 10/10.
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#19Why Texas and not Arizona, or Florida or some other state?
Cause these factors in texas are state wide, on the state you mention are just cities and even not full cities, some areas of miami are horrible
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#20People mentioned cheap property but property taxes in TX are insane… but I guess it helps that they don’t have state income taxes.