If You Were Wanting To Move To Another State Where Would You Move To?

[braalian]

Believe it or not, by the time you stop paying state income tax, paying less for gas, paying less for just about everything, you might actually see an improvement.

Maybe.

I have very few extravagant tastes or expenses anyway, always been perfectly happy in modest housing and shopping at Walmart so I could probably swing it.

And I really hate winters

Willingly taking a $15 or more an hour pay cut is just a hard pill to swallow

 

[Seymour Flops]

I've lived in Texas all my life except when stationed elsewhere with the Army. So, I'd want a place as much like Texas as possible.

I'd guess Florida would be the closest.

 

[Independent thinker]

Interesting that, according to this poll, no one wants to move to a blue state. I usually always make all of my polls something that both sides can answer.

 

[Mr Natural]

Interesting that, according to this poll, no one wants to move to a blue state. I usually always make all of my polls something that both sides can answer.

Good!

Shorter lines and better seats for the rest of us.

 

[Independent thinker]

Moving from a blue state is not just superficial politics. It’s survival. 17 property crimes in 25 years in my two democrat-dominated locales.

I was trying to figure out how to respond to him but your post probably took care of it. Yes, he's right to some extent but I don't think he really realizes the big picture in some cases. It's not cut and dried. The left have become loony tunes bat shit crazy and many of their policies make living unbearable, such as the crime you pointed out. And, if I were one of them lefty loony tunes who was batshit crazy I wouldn't want to live amongst a solid red group of people who refused to call me by my chosen pronoun, etc.

 

[Independent thinker]

Well, I’ve lived in a city in a blue state most my life and have never been robbed or mugged or anything. If you’ve been robbed 17 times in 25 years maybe you’re doing something wrong. That seems like an extreme outlier, statistically

Maybe I'm wrong but I noticed you didn't say you lived in a big city in a blue state. There's a difference. And, it's not ALL blue states. The big progressive leaning states are the worst. The whole West coast is a turd region, along with a lot of the Northeast plus Chicago. There are blue states that would be tolerable.

 

[Independent thinker]

The dictatorial powers though are noticeable. Covid showed us all that Prog Communist governors will arrest, prosecute and imprison and destroy people. They will shut down near everything or limit what they can do, and the misery index will rise into the stratosphere. The politicians themselves though will not e affected.

Yes, democrats showed they can call anything a national emergency and take total government control over Americans. Then when Trump goes down some of those roads all of a sudden Trump is taking democracy away.

 

[Independent thinker]

Sadly the South tends to pay shit wages compared to the northeast and Midwest.

Every time I’ve investigated what places like Texas or Florida or the Carolinas pay their experienced nurses, I’m shocked by the degree of pay cut I’d have to accept

You really can't look at it like that. You have to look at your pay rate vs the cost of living. California had areas where they were paying six figures and people had to live in tents. You can work full time sweeping floors in Arkansas and own your own home.

 

[Independent thinker]

How much lower can it be?

When I say a pay cut, I’m talking about $40-45/hr up here vs well under $30/hr down there

You have to look at the big picture, not just part of it. I personally know someone who was doing well in California and moved to KY, paid cash for a home of $230,000 where that same home would have been valued at over one million dollars in California. So, he was mortgage free, got a job for fairly close to the pay he made in California and all of his other expenses here were astronomically cheaper as well. He retired before the age of 60. Did he have the great weather of California? No, but he's life was immeasurably better in a number of ways.

 

[Anathema]

I live in one of the bluest states. If I were to move it would only be to a red state. My preference would be to see the Federal Government move to turn blue states red or just take them over to correct the blueness.,

 

[Mr Natural]

You really can't look at it like that. You have to look at your pay rate vs the cost of living. California had areas where they were paying six figures and people had to live in tents. You can work full time sweeping floors in Arkansas and own your own home.

Housing prices are high in California because nobody wants to live there.

Housing prices are low in Gooberville because everyone wants to live there.

Economics 101.

 

[Zincwarrior]

We are waiting to see where the oldest kids land. Probably here or Canadaland. The youngest will probably move to Chicago within three years as its the SIL's corp. headquarters.

If I won the Lotto? Nashville.My heart is Texan but my soul never left Tennessee.

 

[Oddball]

South Carolina....Used to be Utah, but it's beginning to get seriously sketchy there.

 

[citygator]

No one moves for politics dipshit. People move TO NY and California to MAKE MONEY... then leave to spend that money more slowly as they get old as fck. Hilarious. All you jokers never made any money in red states.. thats for sure.

 

[eagle1462010]

Id move red to red. But it would be Alabama to Florida. To get near Panama City beaches

 

[Unkotare]

Conservatives with the means (maybe retirees) should amass in liberal areas until representation there changes, then move on to the next liberal area. Sort of a fluid 'Bleeding Kansas' thing. Play the long game.