California - State of Affairs

"Empowering state sponsored speech".... yikes. The trenches of liberalism, socialism and the state dig their trenches ever deeper making California a further lost cause. On that note I wanted to share some interesting comments, reactions, conversations I had with some folks on my most recent trip back to Tennessee and Kentucky.

Walking into an old donut, coffee shop, (Ralphs ranked #10 in USA!), a man sitting at the counter observing, listening to us order asked "where ya'll from", our reply "California", his, "Ya'll ain't movin' here are ya?" This type of conversation, reaction played itself out almost everywhere we went during our 10 trip. We got, "you out house huntin'?", "Don't bring your politics here", & of course the comments made about Newsom were priceless. 

At the end of our trip, leaving out of Louisville, the three immediate people sitting next to us at the gate where California Ex-Pats. The first guy I got into conversation had just moved to Franklin, Tenn. He was a super Republican dude who like many of us predicted where California would end up one day. He referred over and over to "crime" and feeling no longer "safe" in California and railed against the taxes and cost of living. 

Another guy sitting to the left of me was from Venture, left California two years ago during Covid and was flying back to see his son whom he says he is working on to get to leave the state. The woman next to him overhearing our conversation chimed in as well on her departure from the state.

And to cap it off, a couple next to us across the aisle, he a 68 year old African American man was smitten about their move to Savannah, Georgia from Diamond Bar, Ca.! They were flying back to see friends and check on their home they now rent. The bought a house for $250K in Georgia and they say their rent here pays the mortgage back there with cash left to spend. Side note, the guy was a football junkie, went to Banning HS in LA and follows HSF as well so we chatted for half the flight on that!

I have been doing the travel thing all my life, never have I encountered on one trip this type of reaction to Californians, it has gone over my lifetime from ENVY to RIDICULE. From the days when most would say ah, lucky, you got it made out there, to you must be crazy to live there.. Sad. Sad because I can't argue against that assessment any longer. 

Yah Bick, I was thinking of moving from CA, maybe to Portland or Seattle.   


SK, my wife would love to move, but man, I can't imaging moving across the street, let alone out of the state.   

Only in California could you turn the original Walmart into a homeless shelter..

None of that stuff matters. Gavin Newsom is a good-looking dude, and that will get him 80% of the vote from women and gays. Combine that with election fraud that the left has had another couple years to perfect and beating him will be a tall order.

Unfortunately, none of those failures impact voters in the other 49 states, except for companies leaving California, and that's a plus for those other 49.  And he's just SO cute!

It doesn't matter.  The process will just "count ballots" for as many months after the election as it takes for him to win.