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The land of libertarians has higher property taxes than California???
Disney moms are the fucking worst.
It’s like she somehow traveled to a political future dominated by conservative politics (Texas), hated it, and traveled back. But still gonna vote conservative. Boggles the mind.
Yeah unless youre born here its hard to take. Even so, much of it is a shitstorm that you have turn off ocassionally to hold onto even a wisp of sanity.
I made the same mistake, moved from NY for a tech job in Texas during covid.
The honeymoon phase ended in the first week when I couldnt find decent quality food at restaurants. I haven't had political issues like she mentions. I struggle with the poor infrastructure here, the frontage roads spaced everything so far apart it makes the area feel like a giant strip mall that goes forever.
By the time my lease ended the tech layoffs came. Been struggling to find jobs back home so now I feel stuck in Texas.
Its depressing, but I try to make the best of it.. There's lots of really nice greenways so when it's not too hot I bike around. I felt way more free and happy in the Northeast corridor.
I can see the difference between California influence and original Texan culture. There's pros and cons to both, but when both of their flaws come together it's the worst.
I will never relocate for a job again once I get back. You either hire me as remote or I'm dodging a toxic work environment.
This is one of the annoying things about all the California people moving to Texas.
They have contributed to an absolutely massive spike in home prices, and despite the complaints of all the "California liberals" moving here, in my experience it's mostly conservatives who are attracted to the Texas GOP's insanity, so they're shifting things further to the right.
We should tell them that Russia is now welcoming their kind with open arms!
Well Texas was welcoming them with lots and lots of arms - handguns, rifles and more.
I was thinking about moving to Mexico a few years back. Areas in Mexico are so full of expats, the prices aren't any better than US. If you don't mind the occasional cartel massacres, there are still less over-run areas if you habla español.
She's not the sharpest tool in the shed.
She was lookin kinda dumb
She admitted the mistake, so she's not the dullest tool either.
Conservative decides to leave a very liberal state and move to a conservative state, doesn't like it there, moves back to liberal state because it's better there.
Is probably still conservative.
???
Conservatives aren't exactly known for learning lessons.
Theres an adage that goes 'them as cant do, teach'
You'd think that a teacher would be able to learn lessons.
You must be thinking of a learner.
That's the delicious irony of it.
you mean to tell me when you gentrify a part of a place by engaging in mass migration to that place that it sucks now????
Man i never would've guessed. Just a little tip for anybody looking to move to places out there, don't move to the place where everybody else is moving, it's stupid.
Smile doesn't reach her eyes, it's like uncanny valley off-putting to me.
I spent three months in Houston about 10 years ago and I've never experienced such a wild-ass level of passive aggressive probing to see if I was in their particular in-group anywhere else. I'm from the Midwest and used to some of that but it was every fucking conversation, down to getting asked what church I attend while trying to get a coffee at a cafe.
The fuck ? thats creepy and weird as fuck :(
Ah yes! I also grew up in the Midwest and lived in Fort Worth for a few years and the biggest culture shock was that, "What church do you go to?" was essentially the standard follow-up to introducing myself. I always lied and said I went to a church out in one of the suburbs in the hopes that they wouldn't try to associate...
“What church do you go to?”
And "sorry, I was raised Canadian" doesn't work?
Just laugh and say u don't believe in sky fairies