(06-28-2018 06:15 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Don't Californicate Texas. That's all I ask.

#henceDJT is your last chance......and you know it....

(06-27-2018 05:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(06-27-2018 05:12 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  In costly Bay Area, even six-figure salaries are considered ‘low income’

This tid bit of news should add to this thread.

Quote:In the high-priced Bay Area, even some households that bring in six figures a year can now be considered “low income.”

That’s according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which recently released its 2017 income limits — a threshold that determines who can qualify for affordable and subsidized housing programs such as Section 8 vouchers.

San Francisco and San Mateo counties have the highest limits in the Bay Area — and among the highest such numbers in the country. A family of four with an income of $105,350 per year is considered “low income.” A $65,800 annual income is considered “very low” for a family the same size, and $39,500 is “extremely low.” The median income for those areas is $115,300.

Other Bay Area counties are not far behind. In Alameda and Contra Costa counties, $80,400 for a family of four is considered low income, while in Santa Clara County, $84,750 is the low-income threshold for a family of four.

Keep reading here....

In San Francisco, the lowest price for the smallest apartment is about $4K per month, or $48K per year. If you make $100K per year in the bay area, you literally have no disposable income due to housing costs.

(06-28-2018 11:52 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(06-28-2018 11:35 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I am regularly in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area on business, and in fact lived in the East Bay for a while.

There is a very real attraction to the area as it is quite vibrant, but the squallor is remarkable as well - I am no shrinking violet but damn that open air drug use, mentally unstable homeless, and pure unadulterated filth was pretty jarring.

But you know, we would escape on the weekends to places like Half Moon Bay over on the ocean or up to the American River outside Sacramento to go whitewater rafting and bang - that's why people love California.

(Not to say of course that you can't get those experiences in other places, just saying that there is something attractive about CA.)

That’s the issue.

My first trip to Cali was Santa Barbara, San Onofre, Blacks and a few others.

We had our car(s) broken into on 3 completely separate instances.

This was over a 2+ week stay with friends that grew up there, so “local” tags and all.

Damn near that entire state should be a paradise, from Tahoe to San Diego. (We can surgically remove Sacramento if needed)

But it’s not. It’s become a near mirror image of a schithole.
Try to go camping in a public campground. Trash everywhere. People just tossing/leaving their schit all over the place.

No regard for “leave it better than you found it”. Too many of the places now look like open air landfills.

Forget the new Apps coming out that alert you to where piles of human feces are, so you can hopefully avoid all that...

People are openly fleeing that state.

Unfortunately, that's what the Liberals want our country to become. Screw any laws let's just have our way. Look at NYC now compared to how it was when Giuliana was mayor. Vast differences.

I just might move to Costa Rica with Stinky. No never mind, he'd get me in trouble the first time he smokes the illegal cig. Ha, ha.