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High temperatures? Air conditioning. Low temperatures? Heating. High humidity? Dehumidifiers. Low humidity? Humidifiers. Particulate matter? Air filters. Bugs? Pest control. Bug screens. Traps. Mosquito treatments. High energy use? Solar. Lack of density? Sign me up. More privacy, less noise, lower crime rate, and fewer problems in general. No rude people constantly in a hurry. The stuff there are no solutions for: h…
Being outside most of the year? Overrated.
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Lived in the Presidio, all my neighbors plus our house has a pretty big mold problem, likely from the humidity. When we called maintenance, the answer was to manage airflow and yeah, it’s the presidio, stuffs gonna mold.
To be fair, the Presidio is the foggiest/most humid part of SF. Any part of the city & broader Bay Area directly touching coast line attracts dramatically more moisture than anywhere even a few hundred meters inland. Even in the Marina district half a mile away mold isn’t an issue afaik
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That's when a democrat moves. Republicans move to Arizona, Texas and Florida
As a rule, we Californias refuse to acknowledge that there are any non-democrats in the state, therefore they can’t move to Florida.
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California is a great state? I guess the mass exodus over the last several years is just simply people leaving in excitement. California is not great. It hasnt been great for a long time. It's hostile to anyone who is not the elite while also mascarading as a progressive paradise. The problem with people leaving is they export the same politics that got California to it's position as a working class hostile state. In…
Dude, as someone who left, California is a great state and I never would have left if I could afford to live there. Only a small portion of Oregon is left leaning, and people who feel they are being squeezed out by Californians of course are going to feel antagonistic and try to justify that antagonism in their heads as more than just fear.
I live where I live and travel to California so often I more or less live there for several days a week. The only thing great about California is the weather.
It's simple, assimilate or stay over there. You left California for a reason - why bring the garbage to every other state? Your voting is the reason California is a dumpster fire in almost every major metro. Walking down Santa Monica, or almost anywhere in San Francisco smells like human waste. You cannot tell me California is "nice". At least the Californians coming here aren't exporting the smell.
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While people remain in denial about how nice it is to only have 2-3 months of livable outdoor weather a year, housing prices will always tell the truth
I think that property prices in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands provide a neat counter example to your point.
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A "majority" of any sizeable group is not going to be rich. What is important for fiscal impact is that the rich are leaving, not that other people are also leaving. If you want to see data, we can look at IRS data: "New York’s tax base shrank by $19.5 billion while California lost $17.8 billion as a result of workers fleeing those states during a time when lockdown measures allowed employees to work remotely, accord…
Not that California is better, but all those places are stupid places to move to for global warming reasons. At least in the long term.
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In Texas I’ve been without power for a total of three days in last 15 years and that was a once in a century event
Serendipitously, this tweet popped up almost right before I read your comment - https://twitter.com/ybarrap/status/1606319917229228032?s=46&... I don’t think it’s outrageous to say Texas has one of the worst power grids in the nation. Regardless of your personal experience.
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I find it problematic that so many people reject your opinion, in particular because I suspect they are probably downplaying the degree to which it parallels the way most Americans think about where they live, to one degree or another. Your logic isn’t unsound, but it will increasingly come across as unreasonable because not everyone in the workforce has the option of finding employment and accommodation elsewhere.
Make it unaffordable in a city for service workers to live, and there will be no one to host your night out on the town. No one to serve your dinner, or to tear your venue ticket, or to play live music.
But it’s not _illogical_ for someone who has everything they want to oppose things they don’t need.
NIMBY-is like another application of the “possession is 9/10ths of the law” argument. It has legs, but it doesn’t always win out.