The Big City was full of spectacle and parody, Progressives and… Progressives. Oh, and pizza; NY’s claim to the best pizza in the country is arguable, but certainly for the style it made famous, it delivers. Tomb Raider was quite cooperative in continuing a tradition of SP’s and mine, the search for the Ultimate Slice; I may not have found it yet, but I did find much excellence. Best I had so far was an unpretentious spot in Brooklyn, Norm’s, which was recommended by one of Tomb Raider’s sons. I will be happy to take suggestions for other candidates for my next visit there. Tomb Raider, of course, criticized my method of eating a slice, noting that a True New Yorker would fold the slice completely in half rather than the mild bend I gave it. “I have no interest in being a ‘true New Yorker.'”
I did take advantage of some opportunities, and came home with appropriate souvenirs. A large bag of bagels (there are things called “bagels” out here in the rurals, but they are bagels only in that they are wheat-based toroids), halvah, Chinese peppers… there’s a theme here and that’s food. We ate a LOT. The predictions that we’d smell weed everywhere were largely true, and this may be why everything seems mellower there than I remembered from years ago.
In any case, I’m back in the rurals, and will have to rely on my own cooking again. Next trip is next weekend to Atlanta, truly one of my least favorite cities on Earth. All the disadvantages of NYC but without the food and legal weed. Or the company of Tomb Raider.
Of course, in the Thanksgiving spillover, we are thankful for birthdays today, which include an early import from Canada; a rather noisy fellow; a guy who was truly the catalyst for a technological revolution; a guy who wasn’t a Jew but it would have been perfect if he were; one of my very favorite novelists; a superb cartoonist who unfortunately found fame and fortune; an absolutely iconic sculptor; and a guy that always had the protection of Triumph.
Now we Link.
One has to wonder, what were these kids taught and who taught them this? Well at least this school rates an “A” for diversity, as long as you’re not a Jew.
This warms my Ravens fan heart.
Progs just love choo-choos and will never give up the dream.
Actual answer: exactly nothing. So shut up.
“The author is the founder of Friends of Zion.” With friends like these, (((we))) don’t need any more enemies. Go fuck yourself, Mikey.
It would be hilarious if it all came down to a failure in Lucas electricals.
The Old Man was in the mood for some smokin’ horns and Gerry Mulligan and Art Farmer delivered.
Altanta or Vegas? Which is the worst city in America?
Sorry, I’m going to have to go with Detroit regardless.
Unpossible. My wife is from there, consequently making it wonderful, at least in spirit.
Has there ever been in any doubt? Oakland.
There is no “there” there.
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Downtown Oakland is nice. Or it was when I last visited a couple decades ago.
Oakland has a lot of nice areas, but it also has the deep east, with International blvd. running right through it.
Yeah, I had no reason to head that way. And knew it was not a good idea.
When I moved to the Bay Area a while ago, the advice on Oakland: “If you get a flat tire and see barbed wire on or around the buildings, drive on the rims until you get across the bay.”
I had a surprisingly good time in Detroit a few weeks back. Granted, we never left Midtown/Corktown, but lots of good restaurants and bars and I kept doing a double-take on the low prices (vs. Boston/Cambridge).
It _is_ noticeably empty though. Even at rush-hour on a Friday there just weren’t that many cars on the roads or people around.
From 12 years ago. I’ve linked this before, but it’s a stark reminder of what it looks like when a city dies.
Lots of beautiful, abandoned buildings there.
On the plus side, they’re renovating Michigan Central Station as Ford’s new headquarters. It’s a minor scandal since Ford has always been in Dearborn.
Vegas proper is shitty. Outlying areas are nice but will soon be the landscape of Phoenix with their heavy pursuit of ripping out trees and grass.
Vegas, as a whole, has that deeply shitty combination of the Strip/casino BS, and the outlying areas that are essentially strip malls, with all the personality of a dying Der Weinerschnitzel parking lot.
Sorry…futher outside of the city. Downtown Henderson has been revitalized, Boulder is great to get back to Nevada roots. Summerlin is a pretentious part of town but nice. But yes, anything near strip is terrible
What should I do in downtown Henderson? I didn’t even know it HAD a downtown.
Good fajita place and a couple of breweries. It’s not a big downtown and off the main drag its depressed.
Biscuits and Bourbon, Mojave Brewery, Lovelady Brewing, Juan’s Flaming Fajita.
Those are the winners of my “Worst Places In The US.”
The worst city in America? Whichever one I happen to be in at the time. I hate cities.
Morning, OMWC. I want to defend Atlanta being rather fond of Georgia… then I think some more and realize pretty much everything I like about GA is outside of ATL… so go right ahead.
Expected Watterson – if there was ever an artist who clearly didn’t want fame or fortune, he’s pretty much it in my lifetime.
They’re right on track for shaming the older generation in the public square, so I’d say their Maoist instructors did very, very well. Sigh.
Schulz was, apparently, Watterson’s biggest inspiration, but he was a distinctly commercial comic artist, and not held back by the ethos of latter generations.
Interestingly, his drawing style seemed directly from Walt Kelly.
I think it had more to do with the existentialism of the early Peanuts cartoons.
And, by the way, vacuum cleaners were the only thing Lucas made that didn’t suck.
the search for the Ultimate Slice
Ultimate Slice
I was expecting either that or a really terrible golf swing video.
They should have made OJ their celebrity spokesperson. It would have been perfect.
http://luigispizzabrooklyn.com/about.aspx
Best pizza I ever had in NYC. Loves making pizza, could have sold the place years ago and made a mint. Loves the community and making pizza.
I’ve been there so many times as it is close to my good friends house.
It became his passion that allowed him to make money and socialize at the same time.
Will try my next time there.
I hear DiFara’s is the best, but now that the vecchio DiFara is dead I don’t know.
Hahaha, TOS is on topic today.
JFC that’s the most TOS headline ever. That schtick never gets old, I guess.
Wait, the Old Man is boosting cover images from TOS?!
They stole it from the same place I did.
Does he have a brother named Mario?
I hear Mario’s wife is a real peach of a gal.
In NYC the “best pizza” was always the shop closest to home. Sure you can spend time finding the actual “best” but why bother when every other shop gets you at least 95% of the way there? “Bad pizza” doesn’t survive long.
Swiss is going to be perturbed he doesn’t get to use this with the Ancient Aliens meme pic now.
And you are 100 percent correct. Nothing but speculation and wishful thinking. I’m very much in the “Rare Earth” camp (I think the circumstances that gave us large gas giants, a fairly large satellite, radiation belts / a magnetosphere and wiped out the long-standing biosphere (dinosaurs) that came before us but didn’t favor intelligence is a combination of factors that whittles things down enough that while we probably aren’t alone in the Universe due to sheer number of planets, we’re almost certainly alone enough we’ll never see anyone else. Sorry Spock lusters.)
That’s some fine wake you up music on a Sunday morning.
By the way, the best pizza in New York is Cosmo’s.
In Rochester.
Cosmo’s or Cosimo’s?
NYC pizza quickly sounds like People’s Republic of Judea to me when it comes to restaurant names.
Honestly, it could be either. I knew his daughter, and only caught wind of the place that way.
Rhywun should know, and be our Glibs taste correspondent!
I left Rochester for college and never went back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In my childhood the best available there was Dominos. (Not kidding.)
I had to think about it, but Cosimo’s. With the I.
God, I haven’t really thought about that since my brother’s second marriage, 20 years ago.
Jesus… because I’m sure it will remain a “limited nuclear exchange”, not get out of hand in this international mess that folks increasingly see WW1 in and won’t tar the US further or anything.
How about we just get back to energy independence, drop the global price of oil and cut down Iran’s economy and what they can spring for terrorism instead, Chuckles?
Still can’t give over CNN Business “fear and greed” index.
https://www.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed?utm_source=business_ribbon
It is hilarious. How to say you’re a commie rag without saying you’re a commie rag.
Well, all the hookers and blow aren’t distracting them enough to stop fucking the country — I doubt this will either. The lobbyists will keep writing their legislation, passing it to their aides and get them in line for important votes.
Le sigh (again).
“I have no interest in being a ‘true New Yorker.’”
Tomb Raider should know the score by now
Next time fold it all the way in half – the other way.
I smell a new Smithsonian Channel series – Car Disasters! Designed to put you off of driving the way Air Disasters puts you off flying!
So true.
a guy who wasn’t a Jew but it would have been perfect if he were;
Happy birthday Norman Jewison?
one of my very favorite novelists;
Happy birthday Peter Benchley!
Legitimate chuckle at that one. Well played.
and a guy that always had the protection of Triumph.
Happy birthday Rik Emmett?
Robert Smigel?
I really was looking for that connection.
Their teachers taught them exactly what they learned in college, which is that the world is divided into “oppressed” and “oppressors”. With that impressive “diversity”, guess which pigeonhole 97% of the students were placed into?
I don’t find their behavior crazy; I find our deference indefensible.
In my fantasy, the costs and consequences of actions accrue to the agent. Rush someone who can’t tell how out of control or dangerous you are? Okay, but somewhere around 15 feet out you get blown away. Run through the neighborhood trying the latches of car doors to see what you can steel? Okay, but you’re getting a baseball bat through the knee.
There will always be punks. The world we have built that does not treat with them properly is the main problem.
Half the teachers approve of this behavior. The kids are “smashing the system”, after all.
The other half are go along to get along, holding their heads down and hoping they won’t be next.
If that teacher (or anyone) reacted to a violent swarming and blasted a couple of those kids, I wouldn’t think twice about it. A world where we can’t defend ourselves against dangerous people is hopeless.
Ahem, both of you should read the link immediately below.
But threats are just speech and if you take them seriously you’re a hypocrite poopy-head that doesn’t really believe in free speech.
The teachers really haven’t thought through what happens to them after the system is smashed.
They are teachers. What? You expect them to know stuff? Ha.
“Oh Comrade, you are making a mistake. Don’t you know who I am?”
More from Warby:
Based on the pictures of the Brooklyn antisemite school kids rioting, a “diversity” rating of “A” means “no white kids”. In non-prog Murika, no people of a large ethnic group is undiverse.
2.7 percent according to the 2nd link. The rest is surprisingly evenly divided among the three major non-white diversities. I suspect lots of busing going on because most public schools in NYC approach 100% of one of the three.
Why doesn’t the US have more passenger trains?
Because rail is better used for freight.
And our states, and in not a few cases counties, are bigger than most Euro countries.
Hail to the victors – cool bit of science news.
This was a cool bit of material science.
They were able to make Dolomite in the 70’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGLAe-_JytU
Bitch slap from the invisible hand.
I always enjoy Turley’s writing.
Today’s seemed rather easy for a Sunday, really. Half expected a speed credit.
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Has anyone checked on Sloopy today?
I hear he’s feeling a bit Blue.
He’ll live to see another Day.
“America needs to bomb Iran”
Sure Jerusalem Post, America is free next Thursday so why not? Anything else you need us to do?
Zombie McCain approves.
War boner pops up through the ground.
Nothing quite says “measured coolheaded reaction” like an uninvolved country reacting to a couple thousand civilians murdered in another country by murdering millions in yet another uninvolved country, possibly causing a nuclear exchange murdering tens or hundreds of millions of civilians.
It would be defensive in nature, somehow.
One does not need nukes to splat the Iranian leadership. Enforce the embargo on Iranian oil sales. Stop giving them money, stop letting them make money. Bitch slap the fuck out of them for what they have done and they will get the message.
We are going headlong into the very war everyone is saying they dont want. Shut this shit down now real hard and quit fucking around.
Iran has a much more sophisticated economy and military than Iraq had and that was a disaster for us and the world. Let them trade and make money and the threat of removing trade normalization will be much more effective than constantly hammering them over the head. If that fails let the regional nations handle them. Between the Turks and the Arabs and Thisastan and Thatastan they can contain them just fine.
^^^ THIS
The shame of it is that there’s no good reason that some modern, workable society that is a full partner on the international scene isn’t rocking along making the modern Persians happy and wealthy. None of this had to happen.
Yes there is. The reason is Jimmy Fucking Carter.
As for the present situation, one missile up the Ayatolla’s ass a’la Gadaffi style and cut off their income. That, and make Biden’s puppet masters stop giving them money.
“Voters in the swing county of Northampton, Pennsylvania, mostly moved on after their new touchscreen voting machines glitched during a down-ballot judge’s race in 2019.
But when a similar issue cropped up earlier this month, it triggered a backlash within the county — one that has left state and local election officials in this key swing state racing to restore voter confidence ahead of what could be another contentious presidential election.”
Most honest election eva! Girlfriend, please.
err… https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/25/voting-machine-trouble-pennsylvania-00128554
“Voting machine trouble in Pennsylvania county triggers alarm ahead of 2024”
The 2020 election triggered an alarm ahead of 2024.
Blood red York county has had election problems too recently. When you have abundant incompetence of course shenanigans become easier. The root problem is still the incompetence.
Incompetence gives room for cheating.
Tough to tease out which effect is really happening – stupidity or malicious acts.
Why not both?
Stupid and evil!
Uniparty, 2024!
The uni-party slogan you choose, you lose!
I used to default to incompetence. Now I default to malice, in large part because shenanigans like these just happen to drive the result that the “responsible” parties want. Maybe York county is different, but Maricopa County is run by Repubs. They just happen to be rapid anti-Trumpites, and the people on the short end of their shenanigans just happen to be Trump or Trumpistas.
So, malice in Maricopa County at least. If York’s establishment Repubs are anti-Trumpites, I would say malice there, as well, until given reason to think otherwise.
Local elections having nothing to do with Trump are my point of reference. Or is he such a colossus that all things revolve around him? In which case I invoke the Franklin quote about why despotism arises.
It isn’t Trump. It is Trump’s outlook and policies. Same policies and outlook it would be irrelevant who pushes them.
I dont hire a lawn service to cut my neighbor’s yard. I hire them to cut mine MMYGA. (Make My Yard Great Again)
Trump doesn’t have an outlook or policy. No, he really doesn’t. He talks shit constantly, but never did a damn thing with any tiny bit of competence. I’ve said I give credit to whomever he outsourced the judicial nominees to, that person or persons did a good job (with a couple of exceptions, cause no one is perfect).
He couldn’t control his administration because bluster doesn’t cut it. He had no control over the actual Republican party because they rightly knew he didn’t care about the party in the long term, hell not even the short term. Democrats made a similar mistake with Obama. Ya’ll recall how much federal spending spiked because he signed off on it. Another of his great deals – so skilled a negotiator. He was buffalo’ed by Fauci, et al because Trump didn’t want to stand on stage and admit he didn’t know what was going on and couldn’t do anything about it.
Federal spending reference to Trump and the COVID budget explosion.
But he loves America, and fights for regular guys like me.
Trump’s just a ‘90s Democrat and a boomer who had way too much faith in civil servants and expert appointees, probably his biggest failing next to a general lack of intellectual curiosity. That’s why he got the wool pulled over his eyes by Fauci and that bunch.
I saw a reference to Trump’s 4 years of deficits coming in at 7.1 T. That’s inflation when it catches up and it did. He didn’t stop many at the border. Saying it’s so doesn’t make it so.
“Fool some of the people…”
That is just horseshit. I, we, might not like his outlook or policy proposals, but he did have them. Border control, opening up markets, bringing manufacturing home, and, possibly most important, listening to the little guy and his concerns. And, lo and behold, illegal immigration was lowered, the economy was doing better, actions were taken to shore up the damage done by NAFTA, etc. Again, they might not be what I want, or what you want, but they were what he was campaigning on.
Yes, DC Repubs fought him every step of the way, along with every single person left of the aisle, but is that his fault? I know, I know, you are going to blame his bluster for that. But, frankly, the left did the exact same thing under Bush, and the right did the exact same thing under Clinton, so spare me the histrionics. That is politics, in a nutshell. Again, yes spending hiked, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT. Dems won the spending wars, and until the culture changes, that is going to be what wins elections. Hate it? Sure I do, but I am one in 300 million and at this point I have a bunch of shit such as civil liberties I value more.
As far as Fauci et al, was it a massive fuck up, a la Bush the lessor? No one is perfect, and the left and NeverTrump right went on a full court press. ? Yes, in my eyes, but it still polls highly, what he did. People think it was the right decision. Do I hate it? Sure, but it wasn’t stupid in most peoples eyes. Similarly, I think Obama was a massively shitty president that did more damage to the country than almost anyone before him. But, and this is the important part, people. love. him. So, guess what, my opinions aside, he is considered a successful president, much like the destructive FDR is. Sucks, but there you go.
Trump controlled his admin as well as anyone could with an adversarial force that is supposed to work for him, certainly not with the limited powers we give the president at this point due to the civil service act. He cannot fire just anyone like a CEO would. Be he at least started trying to move parts of this Chinese/Ottoman bureaucracy out of Washington. He had no control over the party because that is where the struggle for the party and its direction is at its hottest of a hot war. Also, internal politics, yo. Still make a difference, no matter the organization.
Being blind to your own hate simply makes you blind.
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/
That is politics, in a nutshell.
Yes, it absolutely is; and Trump was, and is, just another politician. You just like the lies he tells you.
but it still polls highly, what he did
The paradoxes – Trump promises the vaccine, and then “his supporters” are the most wary of it. What I don’t get is how they still love Trump when they are [rightly] skeptical of the vax. The other irony being those who love the vax can’t stand Trump.
Again, I’ll reference Franklin as to why despotism happens.
He cannot fire just anyone like a CEO would.
He could give someone an order with the option to resign if they refused to carry it out. The military would understand that at least – unlike his tweets/public statements about getting us out of Syria. He made it easy for subordinates to ignore his wants. And in a way that made sense, because someone would come along and talk him out of what he wanted. That’s because he lacks both brains and spine, but the man has a spleen (and ego) that won’t end.
“Yes, it absolutely is; and Trump was, and is, just another politician. You just like the lies he tells you.”
Did you read what I actually wrote? Where I talk about how I don’t like various parts of that admin? ‘Cause I don’t think you did. Please reread it.
Fourscore puts up some interesting data there, but, and this is my main point, to normies and not closet statisticians like us, feels are what is important. Feeling like they are getting somewhere, that they count, that things are working, that they are voting for someone who loves the country. etc. And in that 2020 election, Trump received the second highest numbers of ballots ever, assuming that Bidens were all on the up and up. Why? Because, to a great extent, people liked him. Period. And no matter what the D’s or Nevers put out there, it continues to hold.
Telling ourselves stories about Obama won’t change how people feel about him. Making up stories about how Trump did nothing also won’t change how people feel about him, nor what he did do.
OFFS. Here is a bowl of boiled turnips. Here is a bowl of runny dog shit. You are going to eat one of them.
Stop bitching about the turnips and eat the fucking things.
Here in Oregon, the Secretary of State was just resigned over having taken a huge contract from weed growers, violating conflict of interest laws. And, lo and behold, we just had a couple of very close votes break for one party, the one party that all of this seems to break for. All votes in Oregon are mail in, and go through her office. If you wanted to destroy voter confidence, I cannot think of a better way.
“Incompetence.”
John McCain must be masturbating in his grave.
A. I know who taught them that. We see them every day here on this site.
B. Who?
C. Choo-chooes were custom made for graft and land schemes. It has always been that way and no, they will never give them up.
D. Are they really going to go with the fake alien invasion thingy after the cootie bug scare craps out?
E. Agreed. Put a stop to all of this shit in 24 hrs. No sticking around, none of the horseshit were up to for the last 20 years. Shoot a missile up the Ayatolla’s ass and be done with it.
F. I second what OMWC said.
G. Yes, no one is saying much about the cause. There have been lots of stories like this. Tip: Car gets out of control do not attempt to regain control. Ignition off. Take it out of gear. hit the brakes.
I watched “Hot Rod Gang” last night. The entire Disney/Marvel/DC retardverse can go die in a fire.
All-Pro wide receiver Diontae Johnson was visibly upset after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ disappointing Week 11 loss to the Cleveland Browns. And a new report from ESPN revealed Johnson’s frustration escalated into a “heated” exchange with one of his teammates.
ESPN learned Johnson’s frustration spilled over into the Steelers locker room last Sunday, and, at some point, he appeared to target defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick.
Wide receivers are goddamn divas, Part CCLXII.
“Why don’t chickens have six legs?” is at least as useful an intellectual inquiry as “Why don’t we have more passenger trains?”
6-legged chickens? Sounds like that would be quite a hex.
or a half dozen, either way
I take a train to Shithole. I get off of the train. What do I do now? Rent a car?
This is not a walking country.
Nah. Take your rolling bag and walk 5 miles to the downtown Hilton in Shreveport. You will be fine.
You mean a Madden turkey?
Turducken! Poultry diversity!
By the early 1970s, passenger rail service had become a drag on private companies’ bottom lines amid low ridership, deteriorating infrastructure and growing competition from cars and planes.
No way.
Plus property taxes. There were incidences in NJ where annual property taxes on some stations exceeded the annual revenue of fares collected at the station.
My car is affordable and always on time. It always goes where I want when I want. This is the reason the left is trying to kill the private automobile.
From TOS:
Earth-based Human Skeptic 8 mins ago
“Di Fara is located on Avenue J in a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn called Midwood. Taking the subway from Manhattan takes the better part of an hour”
‘Let’s see. That distance is about 8 miles by crow, 10-12 by car or foot. And the noble subway takes an hour? That’s about as fast as a horse. Progress!’
A columnist alleges in today’s paper that Trump said to Gen. John Kelly, while visiting graves at Arlington on Memorial Day “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”. Does anyone know the circumstances of this?
Not sure of the exact circumstances but that’s been floating around for a while now. Sounds like more made up bullshit to me.
Sounds a little too good to be sound true, then again, I can also imagine Trump saying it. I think this comes from one of those ‘inside-source’ books (written by some shmuck intern or slightly better in the Trump admin).
Trump is on record and proudly so
no new examples are needed
I don’t see a problem with that at all. An introspective question of what did they sacrifice for does not mean disrespect.
I believe Kelly has publicly said it happened.
My car is affordable and always on time.
And it never leaves without you.
Were they wearing brown shirts?
Students at a high school in Queens, N.Y., reportedly stormed the hallways after learning a teacher attended a pro-Israel protest Monday.
According to the New York Police Department (NYPD), school safety agents at Hillcrest High School “requested the response of the school sergeant in regard to a disorderly group of students inside of the location.” When the sergeant responded, the students reportedly “dispersed.”
Smells like bullshit.
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Gilmore would be proud
** steps on own dick, falls down **
Braggart.
Watching the new(ish) Godzilla film. Wish you were all here to share the snark. At least they got the villain right: stupid Greenies.
He only wants what’s best for America
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) signaled that nearly any candidate in the 2024 field, of either party, would be an “upgrade” over another term for former President Trump.
“I’d be happy to support virtually any one of the Republicans — maybe not Vivek [Ramaswamy] — but the others that are running would be acceptable to me, and I’d be happy to vote for them,” the retiring senator said Friday in an interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell.
“I’d be happy to vote for a number of the Democrats too,” he continued. “It would be an upgrade, in my opinion, from Donald Trump and perhaps also from Joe Biden.”
He’d vote for Bernie before he’d vote for you know who. Democracy hangs in the balance.
Ramaswamy’s the only one out of that bunch who I’d want to see anywhere near the presidency. Trust old Mitt the white bread dumbass to go for the worst possible choices.
Vivek is a bit too loose of a cannon. I liked the first few things he said, then he went batshit.
He has binders full of dem candidates he’d rather vote for.
Tribal justice
Two men accused of spying for Israel were executed in the West Bank, with their bodies dragged through alleys before being hung from a pylon by a cheering mob.
The two men were shot dead in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Friday by members of Palestinian armed groups.
A Palestinian journalist in the camp, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said the men were beaten and stomped on by residents before being hung up from an electrical tower and then dumped in a skip.
Videos show hundreds of Palestinians crowding around the entrance of the camp and filming the violence with their phones.
The two men were accused of helping Israeli security forces target Hamas in a raid that killed three key terrorists earlier this month, a Palestinian security officer said.
I’m sure they were afforded due process.
“Israel gets two more Palestinians murdered.”
-BBC
Refugees fleeing oppression
While some homebuyers seek the American dream in Texas, many are leaving the state to find it elsewhere.
“Lifelong Texan here. I am definitely preparing an exit strategy,” one anonymous user posted on a Reddit thread about leaving Texas. “From the heat to the stripping away of human rights, I’m just done.”
Another poster struck a similar chord. “I’ve been in Texas most of my life, and my husband and I were always planning on retiring here (in about 5 years from now),” they wrote. “But between this intense heat, crazy politics, and cost of living, we’ve decided to leave for good and head to Knoxville.”
They’re coming for you, Don!
Willing to bet those quotes are all sourced out of Austin.
You know it.
Hahahahahaha! See you in a fee years Don.
the desert is empty: all that room! stay there, stay there!
While people have been moving into the Lone Star state to take advantage of its relatively affordable real-estate market, political atmosphere, and work opportunities, some of those same qualities are driving others out. Over 494,000 people left Texas between 2021 and 2022 (though the state gained a net population of 174,261.) It’s a trend that could intensify as housing costs surge and the state’s political landscape becomes more polarized.
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Lone-Star-state moving route the most popular in the country between 2021 and 2022, with almost 108,000 people making the move. But there’s a one big downside.
“The property tax percentage rate is higher,” Marie Bailey, a Texas-based realtor who moved from El Segundo, California, to Prosper, Texas, in 2017, previously told Business Insider. “Every time a prospective client calls me, it’s one of the first things I talk about.”
I’m sure that’s a huge plus for all those Californians who have been bitching about the destruction wrought by Prop 13 for decades. I’m sure they are eager to finally pay their fair and equitable share.
Jackie Burse, a self-identified Conservative, is one of the many Californians who have sought out Texas for its political environment. Burse told Business Insider in September that it played a crucial role in her decision to relocate to Texas in 2021.
In Texas there is “room for people to believe what they want without being shamed,” Burse said, unlike in California.
Contrary to Burse, Bob McCranie, a Dallas-based real-estate broker who created a real-estate service that helps LGBTQ+ people in Texas sell their homes and get connected with agents in different parts of the country and abroad, told KXAN News in July that the state’s lack of inclusivity has created an unwelcoming environment.
“What we all want as human beings is to feel a level of safety, and if your state is making you feel unsafe, there’s no reason to stay,” McCranie said. “I can’t believe somebody could look at, let’s say, California or New York versus Texas and Florida and say that LGBTQ people feel more welcome in Florida and Texas.”
Freedom of association is all well and good until you need somebody to bake you a cake.
a Dallas-based real-estate broker who created a real-estate service that helps LGBTQ+ people in Texas sell their homes
So no profit motive in the bullshit he spews. No FUD for personal gain. Couldn’t be.
In Austin, some tech workers who flocked to the city during the pandemic just can’t seem to get out fast enough.
Nick Thomas, 30, moved to Austin from downtown Los Angeles in January 2021 and told Business Insider in August he hoped to move back to California soon. He called Austin is a “watered-down” version of places he’s previously lived like Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“People say it’s a tech scene just because that’s what they were told, but when you get to it, there’s no evidence for it,” Thomas said. “I think it was just oversold.”
Bye.
I doubt anyone’s here still. I’ll try and be around later today. Tomorrow is a Big Things Day.
Outpatient is typical, 10-1130, then official onboarding, w pics and shirts at 12:30, then shadow/observe/ do from 1:45-6:15 for my first full paid day. Fuck. I also have that 1-3 hour online training to do today! Easy as hell sexual harassment questionnaires and whatnot. Theoretically, I should get paid 3 hours worth for what my younger HR person told me took her about an hour, but she still got paid for all three. That’s $47 I’ll happily take.
Just talked to my Best Friend in America, my Minnesota friend I met in Korea. She is interested in visiting after the holidays to “experience what a real family feels like for once in [her] life.” That part stays quiet. But she would honestly cry with both joy and sadness at never having it herself. I asked her about it and she said she probably would do both and be OK w them.
I must keep my eye on her. She is certainly my best friend and I want to be teammates w her. If more develops, as life often does, we’ll see. I’m thrilled to be her travel buddy and get married at 45 if we both haven’t found someone. (We’ve agreed to that part. She’s got seven years left.)
I’ll put this up later so sorry if you see it twice! May be around for first Glib Sunday Chat (and Meet Me).