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The good news is that with so many folks coming in, the state has become quite purple. I wouldn't be surprised to see it become blue in the next decade. California did the same thing in the 90s.
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#52Why 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…
I recently saw folks dealing with the flip side of Prop 13, over in Texas. Vehemently against raising property taxes to pay for badly-needed schools, because retirees on fixed incomes can't afford large property tax hikes. OTOH, Prop 13 is also awful, and, surprise, surprise, we can't pay for schools in California, either, so....
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*progressive/liberal woman. To be fair, I believe Conservatives of female persuasion would find it a reasonably comfortable place (I may disagree with that perspective, but we should ignore / pretend it doesn't exist at out peril. 76mil votes for Trump 2020 were not all cast by males. On more personal / closer to home note, a number of my exes would agree with Texas laws more than their/our own Ontario laws and cultu…
It's even true for many conservative women. It's only relatively recently that no-compromise anti-abortion views came to dominate in US "conservative" spaces. Consider, for example, Republican Majority for Choice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Majority_for_Choice
They shut down in 2018, a decision explained here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/abortion-rights-r...
This was driven by a shift in US evangelicals. At one point being a pro-choice evangelical was a reasonable theological position. Now most evangelicals won't even admit that ever happened: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-bib...
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate? I'm not from the U.S but I'm curious.
The poster needs the ability to terminate any unplanned pregnancies that may occur
Banning abortions doesn't just affect unplanned pregnancies.
A few weeks after Texas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, Dr. Andrea Palmer delivered terrible news to a Fort Worth patient who was midway through her pregnancy.
The fetus had a rare neural tube defect. The brain would not develop, and the infant would die at birth or shortly afterward. Carrying the pregnancy to term would be emotionally grueling and would also raise the mother’s risk of blood clots and severe postpartum bleeding, the doctor warned.
But the patient was past six weeks’ gestation, and under the new law, an abortion was not an option in Texas because the woman was not immediately facing a life-threatening medical crisis or risk of permanent disability.
“So we look at them like a ticking time bomb and wait for the complications to develop,” Dr. Palmer said of her patients.
In this case, the woman had the means to travel, and she obtained an abortion in another state, an option unavailable to many low-income and working class women.
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law...
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#56I was born in Texas and lived the first part of my adult life there. All of my family still lives there. But many years ago, I decamped for Seattle (before the tech boom really got started here) and, bluntly, I'm never going back. I wish everyone who is moving to Texas the best of luck and truly hope you succeed. But if you think moving to Dallas or Austin or Houston and putting a Beto sign on your front window is an…
I haven't lived in Seattle but close - Portland and has more similarity to Seattle than differences.
> In 2017 Portland ranked third. Now it has dropped to 66th out of 80. [1]
I am glad I got out. The entire west coast needs less Seattle chadzone, Portland protests, LA homelessness, SF crime and Berkeley wokeness.
The great thing about America is that we have states competing with each other and keeping in check. My hope is that west coast will become better in next decade after some self-introspection. I love the west coast and it is sad to see the decline :-(
[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-...
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#57Why Texas and not Arizona, or Florida or some other state?
No clue about AZ, but lived in west palm beach for a while. Going from NYC to WPB was an interesting experience. It was much cleaner (thats because it is a wealthy area, I assume), quieter and generally nicer. But there wasn't as much to do as NYC. I also didn't see much diversity - mostly wealthy (we are talking high end sports car driving wealthy) white people. I guess it would work for a particular type of demographic.
Weather was nice, though a bit hot for my taste. Everywhere I looked, they were building condos. This was 5 years ago, not what the deal is now.
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Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article and then paste it into the thread to complain about it. That seeds discussion with precisely the worst, most flammable and superficial points.
Instead, we (all) need to train ourselves to (a) leave provocations where we encounter them and (b) focus on the genuinely interesting things. Then we have a chance at contributing to a good, interesting forum.
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#59People mentioned cheap property but property taxes in TX are insane… but I guess it helps that they don’t have state income taxes.
It's all relative to average housing prices in the state. An average 3 bedroom house in LA will cost you north of $1 mil and have a property tax anywhere between 10-15K, which is comparable to monthly rent in some states even though CA has some of the lowest property taxes in the country. You basically never stop paying rent in California even if you've paid off your house. It just depends on who the rent goes to.
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The good news is that with so many folks coming in, the state has become quite purple. I wouldn't be surprised to see it become blue in the next decade. California did the same thing in the 90s.
10 years is a long time. Plus republicans won't give up without a fight.
I hope TX does turn blue eventually