Goodbye to San Diego

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=sdduuuude][quote=sdrealtor]Nobody wants to live in Tucson[/quote]

Tucson is a great place to be from.[/quote]

That’s what I always say about the Philadelphia area[/quote]

Brooklyn was the nation’s breeding ground.

[Myriad]

The argument for moving to a different state is much stronger if you can’t afford to own a SFR and you only option is a condo or don’t currently own at home.
So basically no one on this forum, LOL

[Hobie]

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[scaredyclassic]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=sdrealtor][quote=scaredyclassic]Also, what abput the riff raff.[/quote]

The Villages are calling you and Econ Prof

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147745/Inside-Utopian-Disneyland-retirees-belies-sinister-underbelly-racism-orgies.html%5B/quote%5D

DEFINITELY want to see that movie!!!..there’s a writer, carl hiassen, who writes about various dirtbags, real estate developpers, criminals, weirdos in florida, fiction, he’s funny, ive only read SKINNY DIP, made me firmly commit to NEVER moving to florida, even though it was comedic fiction.[/quote]

Just finished SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, dark documentary set in the villages, Florida.

Five stars. Really well done. Dennis Dean, the 81 year old van dwelling Playboy steals the show. Rock star performance. Guy makes me wonder what the hell I’ve been worrying about. Amazing performance!

[The-Shoveler]

Matt Foley

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=The-Shoveler]Matt Foley[/quote]

No way. he’s so fucking cool. 81. still partying. got tons of chicks. totally free. dude was an inspiration

[Coronita]

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article251233624.html

The interactive map shows in 2020 San Diego County lost 0.48% people, whereas riverside saw an increase of 0.56%

Hardly a mass exodus.

[sdrealtor]

Less immigration due to Covid-19. Lower wage hospitality workers moved back home. Birth rate down. High cost of housing means less coming here but those that do are wealthier.

Will be interesting to watch over next decade. Could go either way

[gzz]

I agree with SDR on major factors. Also seems like counties with a larger share of students had larger pop declines. Look at Santa Cruz at -3.5% in one year. Also look how Yolo Co (UC Davis) had a 1.7% loss while next door Sacramento was positive 0.5%.

[barnaby33]

YOLO in Yolo, maybe once?
Josh

[svelte]

Well it had to happen. New home contracts being canceled in Utah. Hope your home is already built econ or you could be facing a contractor who now wants to renegotiate the price:

Probably going to happen all over the US soon…

[sdrealtor]

Utah and it’s 3M residents had a $1.5B budget surplus. Sounds like a well run state. Poorly run California and it’s 40M residents only had a $75B budget surplus

[Myriad]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=scaredyclassic]Also, what abput the riff raff.[/quote]

The Villages are calling you and Econ Prof

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147745/Inside-Utopian-Disneyland-retirees-belies-sinister-underbelly-racism-orgies.html%5B/quote%5D

I only read through half so far and it already sounds like dystopian hell for me.
Yeah, I guess if you live in the cold Northeast or Midwest, enjoy playing golf, and like chain restaurants, this is probably “heaven” .

For the rest of us in San Diego, the benefits don’t seem so great comparatively.

I wonder if the writers of WestWorld spent some time there

[flyer]

Like so many of us on this forum, I know EP mentioned, along with the primary, he has/had? many investment properties. As mentioned in another thread, that’s turned out to be much like winning the lottery–especially in San Diego–so, I’m guessing, he must have had significant reasons–other than financial–for making the move, and I wish him well.

[EconProf]

Thanks Flyer, and you are quite right that the move was prompted less by financial motives than other factors.
Commentators on the left and the right agree that the nation is dividing into two geographic directions, or what could be called factions. The big cities, especially coastal ones versus the inland ones, the latter perhaps including the ex-urban parts of all cities.
Given current trends, I want to be part of the inland, more rural part. The culture, politics, and friendliness of the people are entirely different. We will never buy motels to house the homeless and addicted or free repeat-criminals from our jails or teach school children to be race-conscious. We won’t close our schools unnecessarily. Our taxes and fiscal future will stay healthy, crime rates will stay low, and education levels high. Our influx of escaping “refugees” from the woke cities will continue.
As a long-ago liberal–it’s hard to be a college teacher and not be liberal–my entry into the private sector via real estate investing and being a contractor in the inner city gave me a rude awakening.
Of course much of this change is due to simply getting old. As Winston Churchill said, paraphrasing, “To be young and not liberal is to have no heart. To be old and not conservative is to have no head.”

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