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And this guy isn't exaggerating. If anything, he's sugar-coating it. Now, before you ask, why do I stay? I'm trapped. If you're not here already, stay away. Save yourself!
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I absolutely understand the feeling of being trapped. Since her age of five in 2007 I have been the single parent of a daughter successfully battling brain cancer. She's been in remission for nine years. Thank God! I don't know if she's going to elect to do a couple of years of college here which will force me to stay but she's eligible for a free college program. Two years of Community College completely free. If she moved to Arizona where her mother moved to she won't have the same opportunity even though there's a college right there. Arizona has a one-year waiting. Before you can grab the benefits. I'm trapped here in that respect.
But I'm also trapped here financially. Besides being broke all the time from caring for a child still dealing with brain cancer the property prices have exploded in Idaho and Colorado and New Mexico, as well as Oregon and Washington which why the hell would I want to go there when they're just as bad as California? Even Texas is overrun. The joke is is that when the first batch of Californians arrived in Texas they met Governor Abbott and handed him a piece of paper and said out loud that it was their new state constitution. LOL. That's why Texas is now teetering on being a blue state. A couple of bad elections and we lose Texas.
But who can afford to live here in California? Gasoline where I live is $4.39 a gallon for low-grade. I drive a 4WD. It needs gas. I can't sell my house because nobody's willing to pay what it's worth based on the standard set by the real estate industry. One reason we moved our family up here in 2005 is because when I married my now ex-wife she had two girls and I had one and then we had one together. A home big enough for a family of 6 in 2005 was running from $600,000 to at least $800,000! The homes weren't even worth $200,000! So we bought up here the mountains where we got a four bedroom, two story, on a quarter acre parcel with a part-time stream next to us. We only paid $399,000 and then a little over a year later pulled out over $105,000 in equity. We used it to build our business.
But I'm also trapped here financially. Besides being broke all the time from caring for a child still dealing with brain cancer the property prices have exploded in Idaho and Colorado and New Mexico, as well as Oregon and Washington which why the hell would I want to go there when they're just as bad as California? Even Texas is overrun. The joke is is that when the first batch of Californians arrived in Texas they met Governor Abbott and handed him a piece of paper and said out loud that it was their new state constitution. LOL. That's why Texas is now teetering on being a blue state. A couple of bad elections and we lose Texas.
But who can afford to live here in California? Gasoline where I live is $4.39 a gallon for low-grade. I drive a 4WD. It needs gas. I can't sell my house because nobody's willing to pay what it's worth based on the standard set by the real estate industry. One reason we moved our family up here in 2005 is because when I married my now ex-wife she had two girls and I had one and then we had one together. A home big enough for a family of 6 in 2005 was running from $600,000 to at least $800,000! The homes weren't even worth $200,000! So we bought up here the mountains where we got a four bedroom, two story, on a quarter acre parcel with a part-time stream next to us. We only paid $399,000 and then a little over a year later pulled out over $105,000 in equity. We used it to build our business.
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