California vs Texas

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I have many friends who came to California to look for a job, and 90% of them failed and left within half a year. I, and a few others, were recruited to work in California, so it is under different circumstances. My advice is, if you dont already have a job offer in California, dont come. It's too expensive and too hard to find anything out here that isnt minimum wage.

 

Have to agree that living in CA is more enjoyable than TX. I have family in Houston, and that place is wicked hot during the summer. Trucks get plastered with road bugs on a daily basis, but the roads are huge, and navigating the cities and towns are a very simple: make right on Houston Blvd, left main street. Bam, there's your destination. Driving through San Francisco without GPS and not being familiar with the area will get you lost fast.

I hate paying a mortgage rate for an apartment, but snowboarding, desert and beaches are hard to beat. We have it where it counts, and our city is beautiful next to the harbor and navy ships.

 

Very sad for them. What work were they looking for?

Yeah, I only rent b/c I travel so much, and it's definitely like a mortgage. Love the rest of it, though. Aside from traffic and smog.

Yeah, OP, my allergies got worse here (than Boston), and sometimes, coming back after a long trip where there's cleaner air, the smog makes it hard to walk a flight of stairs. lol Sounds like your type of job may be one you could find out here, but, like Aaron said, having a job first would makes things better.

 

lol, you could probably find 1000 stories like that from Cali. OP all I can say is the 2 states are extremely different, and both are awesome. IMO, for as much as I could buy a house in Cali, I'd way rather have a large ranch in Texas!

 

Yes they do. Suckie states give better benefits. Good people move out, bad people move in. Call it what you want, in New York we call in Brain Drain.

 

If I could take my business to Texas I would in a second. Have lived in CA for 39yrs. Every year this state becomes more and more unbearable from the ignorant liberal tools that are destroying it.

 

You got me on that one. I used to live in one of those states. Anyway, I think the right people are flocking to Texas for the right reason, to work and have some money left to show for it. Or, as I like to say, what America was supposed to be.

 

Tx all the way, CA is to expensive, and does not have the freedom that TX has.

 

You won't have to get a new mower.... you just won't be able to purchase a new one that doesn't meet current standards.

On vehicles, they must pass smog every 2 years after they are 5 years old. Smog includes a visual verification that factory emissions equipment is in place, gas cap function test, tailpipe sniffer, and OBD-II scan to verify no codes or pending codes.


Sales tax and personal income tax are both in the ballpark of 10% give or take, but our property taxes are lower than Texas. The rate varies by county due to Prop-218, but the general levy is 1%, and under Prop 13, it can not be increased greater than 2% per year, so if you pay 300k for a home, no matter what happens to your actual market value, you will not have a tax based on a valuation higher than $366k after 10 years.
Prop 218 allows for local (city and county) taxes to be added on by an approving vote of the residents, so some people will pay more than 1%.


But yes... You can not import your magazines that hold more than 10 rounds unless you legally possessed them prior to 2000, and a number of semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns are completely banned and may not be possessed in the state. Some specific features are also banned, such as threaded barrels on handguns.
You also can not own any type of weapons that fall under the NFA, with the exception that it is possible to form an NFA trust for AOW.

Costs are higher, but so are wages. I am making double what my counterparts make in Austin.


Please move to California... someone is going to have to pay the bills here after I retire and move to Texas

 

We don't pay taxes on most groceries.
Prepared ready-to-eat food products are taxed.

 

I paid 90k for my 1000sq/ft condo in 1994.
Value peaked at 350k in 2007.
It's back down to about 125k now.

 

It depends on the industry.
Basic retail and service jobs are comparable, but once you break the $20/hr barrier, California jobs pay 2-3 times what they pay in other states.

 

Grew up in Austin (hook em), just spent the last 4 years in Sacramento. Loved both. Kinda similar, Austin more happening/growing though, lots of music and entertainment, plus its got a very popular lake that runs through it. Sacto was nice too, but we often spent our time driving to Tahoe or the Bay area (both very beautiful and full of cool stuff) to do things. I can't really speak for other parts of each state

 

Don't listen to all this Socal swine, NorCal is where it's at, if you like snow sports, definitely move up here somewhere, every damn thing you can think of to do is around here and usually not very far, food is as good as anywhere on the planet, the Bay Area is expensive but there are all kinds of little pockets where you can find deals. We have culture, museums, lots of music, art, theater, and the City? Where the fuck else are you gonna see a guy in his 50's, on a bike, wearing a tutu, cruising down the street smoking a joint???? Nowhere, that's where, we embrace our oddness, we Zen with our fucking weirdness. It's a 125 different distinct cultures living in the same area, there's festivals for just about everything and everyone, if you can't find something fun to do every weekend around here, you're living under a rock.

 

Austin TX, that's where. Can't promise he'll be wearing a tutu though...

 

Socal really does have the best weather in the country. That is probably the main thing that keeps this state overpopulated.

Just about all the comments here are spot-on; horrible government, over-regulation, high taxes, super-tight gun laws (although the knife laws are looser than states like Colorado!), etc. But we do have access to just about every type of recreation there is. Snow skiing? Got it. Surfing? Got it. Hiking? Got it. Mountain-bike-riding? Got it. Freshwater fishing? Got it. Off-road riding? Got it. Scuba-diving? Got it. Deep-sea fishing? Got it.

Yes, home prices are insane, but if you are an outdoorsy type of person, having a big house is less of a priority since there so many things to do outside and the weather usually cooperates. Essentially, it does not rain from May - October (with only few exceptions) so your plans never get 'rained out'. Winters are mild. Summers are not brutally hot as the humidity rarely gets bad (dew points are usually in the high 50's to low 60's). Summer days are typically in the mid-80's and nights are in the mid-60's. Where I live (Orange County), it is almost never too hot or too cold to do whatever activity you enjoy. I fish and mountain-bike ride year-round although I occasionally get rained out in the winter. Snow-skiing is 90 minutes away for a decent experience and 6 hours away for a great experience (Mammoth Mountain).

We have bugs, but they are much worse in most other states. Mosquitoes are not a serious problem here.

Like others have said, you have to figure out what is most important. My dad said he would never live here again. He likes Arizona, where you don't even need a permit to carry concealed or open, loaded or unloaded. But in Arizona, you either freeze in the winter (he lives at 5500 feet) or you cook in the summer (like Phoenix). You just can't beat our weather.

 

Stupid parade.

Every January 1, they broadcast that stupid parade and show the world our weather.

Every yahoo in the midwest up to his knees in snow looks at the people wearing windbreakers and says "That's January 1 in California?"

 

Hey, on occasion it will be rainy during the Rose Parade.