California is really a ruined paradise
| Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Smoky Cruise Ship Hissy Fit | 12/27/17 | | histrionic mad-dog skullcap | 12/27/17 | | misanthropic marvelous bbw round eye | 12/27/17 | | Smoky Cruise Ship Hissy Fit | 12/27/17 | | idiotic immigrant place of business | 12/27/17 | | Pea-brained Base | 12/27/17 | | Orange Library Azn | 12/27/17 | | Chestnut startled headpube | 12/27/17 | | histrionic mad-dog skullcap | 12/27/17 | | Provocative sepia double fault candlestick maker | 12/27/17 | | wonderful rusted den twinkling uncleanness | 12/27/17 | | dashing translucent hell nibblets | 12/27/17 | | Crimson duck-like point preventive strike | 12/27/17 | | yapping exhilarant heaven dopamine | 12/27/17 | | floppy sanctuary dysfunction | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | Multi-colored cyan step-uncle's house sandwich | 12/27/17 | | Excitant Party Of The First Part Background Story | 12/27/17 | | fantasy-prone multi-billionaire | 12/27/17 | | glittery saffron theater internal respiration | 12/27/17 | | crawly violet son of senegal parlour | 12/27/17 | | Maroon tanning salon | 12/27/17 | | Angry Stage Toaster | 12/27/17 | | histrionic mad-dog skullcap | 12/27/17 | | Smoky Cruise Ship Hissy Fit | 12/27/17 | | thirsty circlehead home | 12/27/17 | | Angry Stage Toaster | 12/28/17 | | Big primrose garrison telephone | 12/27/17 | | Burgundy giraffe | 12/27/17 | | motley ivory business firm famous landscape painting | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | vibrant crusty regret | 12/27/17 | | floppy sanctuary dysfunction | 12/27/17 | | 180 disrespectful persian | 12/27/17 | | slap-happy dilemma boiling water | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | appetizing black woman | 12/27/17 | | Dull curious ladyboy mother | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | stimulating elastic band | 12/27/17 | | effete legal warrant | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | stimulating elastic band | 12/27/17 | | Dull curious ladyboy mother | 12/27/17 | | histrionic mad-dog skullcap | 12/27/17 | | infuriating rigor queen of the night | 12/27/17 | | wonderful rusted den twinkling uncleanness | 12/27/17 | | Smoky Cruise Ship Hissy Fit | 12/27/17 | | canary violent office hominid | 12/27/17 | | Chestnut startled headpube | 12/27/17 | | Pea-brained Base | 12/27/17 | | yapping exhilarant heaven dopamine | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | floppy sanctuary dysfunction | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | wonderful rusted den twinkling uncleanness | 12/27/17 | | Drab juggernaut hairy legs | 12/27/17 | | Arousing tan piazza organic girlfriend | 12/27/17 | | histrionic mad-dog skullcap | 12/27/17 | | Pea-brained Base | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Smoky Cruise Ship Hissy Fit | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Chestnut startled headpube | 12/27/17 | | effete legal warrant | 12/27/17 | | vivacious really tough guy | 12/27/17 | | Angry Stage Toaster | 12/27/17 | | Smoky Cruise Ship Hissy Fit | 12/27/17 | | Arousing tan piazza organic girlfriend | 12/27/17 | | Angry Stage Toaster | 12/27/17 | | Arousing tan piazza organic girlfriend | 12/27/17 | | Angry Stage Toaster | 12/27/17 | | Arousing tan piazza organic girlfriend | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | aromatic senate filthpig | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | stimulating elastic band | 12/27/17 | | Arousing tan piazza organic girlfriend | 12/27/17 | | fantasy-prone multi-billionaire | 12/27/17 | | stimulating elastic band | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | stimulating elastic band | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | stimulating elastic band | 12/27/17 | | boyish pozpig mexican | 12/27/17 | | vivacious really tough guy | 12/27/17 | | spectacular light state | 12/27/17 | | Flushed irradiated gas station | 12/27/17 | | Multi-colored cyan step-uncle's house sandwich | 12/27/17 | | comical ebony gaping | 12/27/17 | | Vigorous sienna jap | 12/27/17 | | histrionic mad-dog skullcap | 12/27/17 | | Slippery legend site | 12/27/17 | | motley ivory business firm famous landscape painting | 12/27/17 | | supple white chad | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Dull curious ladyboy mother | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Slippery legend site | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Drab juggernaut hairy legs | 12/27/17 | | Slippery legend site | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Chest-beating Flatulent Community Account Blood Rage | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | aromatic senate filthpig | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | idiotic immigrant place of business | 12/27/17 | | judgmental indigo menage | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | yapping exhilarant heaven dopamine | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | yapping exhilarant heaven dopamine | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Soul-stirring mewling therapy | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | aromatic senate filthpig | 12/27/17 | | Chest-beating Flatulent Community Account Blood Rage | 12/27/17 | | Multi-colored cyan step-uncle's house sandwich | 12/27/17 | | jade church building | 12/27/17 | | idiotic immigrant place of business | 12/27/17 | | erotic stain messiness | 12/27/17 | | Electric Newt | 12/27/17 | | Snowy maniacal codepig incel | 12/28/17 | | yellow wrinkle | 12/28/17 | | painfully honest liquid oxygen police squad | 01/24/18 | | Mustard bearded windowlicker | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Angry Stage Toaster | 12/27/17 | | histrionic mad-dog skullcap | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | slap-happy dilemma boiling water | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Smoky Cruise Ship Hissy Fit | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | rambunctious cerise affirmative action psychic | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | Provocative sepia double fault candlestick maker | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | mauve bat-shit-crazy property | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Brindle Cracking Brethren | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Brindle Cracking Brethren | 12/27/17 | | Territorial spot | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Brindle Cracking Brethren | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | bonkers spruce old irish cottage main people | 12/28/17 | | know-it-all jet temple toilet seat | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | know-it-all jet temple toilet seat | 12/27/17 | | Glassy Thriller Nursing Home | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | wonderful rusted den twinkling uncleanness | 12/27/17 | | buff razzmatazz box office | 12/27/17 | | fantasy-prone multi-billionaire | 12/27/17 | | vivacious really tough guy | 12/27/17 | | Mustard bearded windowlicker | 12/27/17 | | arrogant sooty pit striped hyena | 12/27/17 | | boyish pozpig mexican | 12/27/17 | | Racy Sweet Tailpipe Locale | 12/27/17 | | Sable national | 12/27/17 | | Aggressive theatre | 12/28/17 | | anal friendly grandma | 12/28/17 | | Sable national | 12/28/17 | | yellow wrinkle | 12/28/17 | | erotic stain messiness | 01/24/18 | | Sable national | 01/24/18 | | Laughsome Abnormal Marketing Idea Rehab | 01/24/18 |
Poast new message in this thread
Date: December 27th, 2017 1:08 PM Author: Sable national
The contrast of this description of California with the shit hole that I live in is stark. The state went from being paradise on Earth for the average man to some sort of proto American Brazil with gated communities protecting the Chinese from the Mexicans.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/california-dreamers/307484/
It was a magnificent run. From the end of the Second World War to the mid-1960s, California consolidated its position as an economic and technological colossus and emerged as the country’s dominant political, social, and cultural trendsetter. … In 1959, wages paid in Los Angeles’s working-class and solidly middle-class San Fernando Valley alone were higher than the total wages of 18 states.
It was a sweet, vivacious time: California’s children, swarming on all those new playgrounds, seemed healthier, happier, taller, and — thanks to that brilliantly clean sunshine — were blonder and more tan than kids in the rest of the country. For better and mostly for worse, it’s a time irretrievably lost. …
Starr consistently returns to his leitmotif: the California dream. By this he means something quite specific — and prosaic. California, as he’s argued in earlier volumes, promised “the highest possible life for the middle classes.” It wasn’t a paradise for world-beaters; rather, it offered “a better place for ordinary people.” That place always meant “an improved and more affordable domestic life”: a small but stylish and airy house marked by a fluidity of indoor and outdoor space … and a lush backyard — the stage, that is, for “family life in a sunny climate.” It also meant some public goods: decent roads, plentiful facilities for outdoor recreation, and the libraries and schools that helped produce the Los Angeles “common man” who, as that jaundiced easterner James M. Cain described him in 1933,” addresses you in easy grammar, completes his sentences, shows familiarity with good manners, and in addition gives you a pleasant smile.”
Until the Second World War, California had proffered this Good Life only to people already in the middle class — the small proprietors, farmers, and professionals, largely transplanted midwesterners … But the war and the decades-long boom that followed extended the California dream to a previously unimaginable number of Americans of modest means. Here Starr records how that dream possessed the national imagination … and how the Golden State — fleetingly, as it turns out — accomodated Americans’ “conviction that California was the best place in the nation to seek and attain a better life.” …
This dolce vita was, as Starr makes clear, a democratic one: the ranch houses with their sliding glass doors and orange trees in the backyard might have been more sprawling in La Canada and Orinda than they were in the working-class suburbs of Lakewood and Hayward, but family and social life in nearly all of them centered on the patio, the barbecue, and the swimming pool. The beaches were publicly owned and hence available to all — as were such glorious parks as Yosemite, Chico’s Bidwell, the East Bay’s Tilden, and San Diego’s Balboa. Golf and tennis, year-round California pursuits, had once been limited to the upper class, but thanks to proliferating publicly supported courses and courts (thousands of public tennis courts had already been built in L.A. in the 1930s), they became fully middle-class. This shared outdoor-oriented, informal California way of life democratized — some would say homogenized — a society made up of people of varying attainments and income levels. These people were overwhelmingly white and native-born, and their common culture revolved around nurturing and (publicly educating) their children. Until the 1980s, a California preppy was all but oxymoronic. True, the comprehensive high schools had commercial, vocational, and college-prep tracks (good grades in the last guaranteed admission to Berkeley or UCLA — times have definitely changed). But, as Starr concludes from his survey of yearbooks and other school records, “there remained a common experience, especially in athletics, and a mutual respect among young people heading in different directions.”
To a Californian today, much of what Starr chronicles is unrecognizable. (Astonishing fact: Ricky Nelson and the character he played in that quintessential idealization of suburbia, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, attended Hollywood High, a school that is now 75% Hispanic and that The New York Times accurately described in 2003 as a “typically overcrowded, vandalism-prone urban campuse.”) Granted, a version of the California Good Life can still be had — by those Starr calls the “fiercely competitive.” That’s just the heartbreak: most of us are merely ordinary. For nearly a century, California offered ordinary people better lives than they could lead perhaps anywhere else in the world. Today, reflecting our intensely stratified, increasingly mobile society, California affords the Good Life only to the most gifted and ambitious, regardless of their background. That’s a deeply undemocratic betrayal of California’s dream …
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35018449) |
Date: December 27th, 2017 1:13 PM Author: Dull curious ladyboy mother
This is so cr.
Cali is a fallen angel.
It's such a weird place now. Stunning natural beauty but a sense of hopelessness and unease that's almost palpable.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35018491) |
 |
Date: December 27th, 2017 5:18 PM Author: histrionic mad-dog skullcap
"an asian, is when your kids have to apply to college and you're like "yes, son, I know you got straight As and a 1580, but UC-Irvine is a perfectly good school."
outed as JJC/some other gooklib.
I got into almost every reasonably prominent private school I applied to as a native Californian with a 3.4 GPA and no extracurrics. u mad lib?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35020350) |
Date: December 27th, 2017 1:14 PM Author: wonderful rusted den twinkling uncleanness
the part you're missing is when the Californian disease began to spread and infest other parts of the country, starting with Oregon in the 80s and now all over the nation including the heartland (Denver, Austin, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and the rest in their crosshairs)
Californians tax and regulate themselves into oblivion then move in disgust, but then vote in taxes and regulations that make the new place they're infecting into another Californian hellscape. Then they spread to the next area and repeat.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35018495) |
 |
Date: December 27th, 2017 1:21 PM Author: yapping exhilarant heaven dopamine
Californians don't know when to stop regulating.
California regulated offshore drilling and effluent dumping. Without that regulation, the beaches would be polluted shitholes covered in spilled oil and toxic paper mill waste byproducts, which would cost the state tons in healthcare spending and loss of tourism money.
Californians looked upon clean beaches, and decided regulation was good.
California then demanded asinine bullshit like habitats for the tiger salamander and snowy plover, two faggot animals we wouldn't miss if they disappeared, and happily drove the costs of development through the roof.
Californians looked upon low housing stock and high prices, and decided they would willingly ignore some of the root causes while complaining loudly about the symptoms.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35018550) |
 |
Date: December 27th, 2017 2:05 PM Author: Sable national
The U.S. government spends $9K per Texan, good luck when that goes away.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-politics/2012/08/05/texas-can-no-longer-complain-that-it-gives-more-than-it-gets-from-federal-government
The federal government spent about $9,000 per Texan in 2010. The state spent $2,200 — one of the lowest outlays in the country, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.
“If not for federal money, there just wouldn’t be much provided at all in some public services, and it’s pretty low to begin with,” said Eva De Luna Castro, a budget analyst for the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, which advocates for poor and middle-income Texans. “We’re at the mercy of whatever happens in D.C.”
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35018855) |
 |
Date: December 27th, 2017 2:10 PM Author: yapping exhilarant heaven dopamine
this is the kind of rancid bullshit that could only be dreamed up by a recent transplant. orange county has always been the worst place in SoCal by a longshot, unless you count the inland counties, which nobody does. it's fifty miles of faggot tract houses and permanent smog, an endless grey belt of suburbs and traffic punctuated by sorely few hidden gems you have to make a conscious effort to get to. standing in north county san diego, you can literally see the air change color to an orangish-brown sitting above orange county. its crowning developmental achievement is plowing over its namesake orange groves to develop disneyland, a lowest common denominator paean to GC and mass media that involves ferrying around screaming kids to stand in lines for $85 a head. OC lacks even the cosmopolitan pursuits of San Diego, which is a lot like losing a foot race to a cripple. it lacks the quiet mediterranean/agricultural peace of ventura county, which is equally as conservative and more likely to grant you a CCW. it is an accident, an overflow valve of stock housing between one and a half real cities. its saving grace is that camp pendleton prevents it from ever encroaching into san diego proper, not that north county SD isn't also a suburban shithole. by the way, OC's republican roots tend to the worst aspects of corporatism - ramming through favorable tax deals for big business at the expense of individual citizens - and hardly touch on the policies the country actually needs to counter the shitlib menace.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35018895) |
Date: December 27th, 2017 1:41 PM Author: Territorial spot
Even in the 80s it wasn't that bad.
I mean, shit, just watch movies like Karate Kid and Fast Times and tell me those weren't infinitely better times.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35018701) |
 |
Date: December 27th, 2017 5:06 PM Author: Brindle Cracking Brethren
I pulled this listing as a prime example of many aspects of the laws and other forces ruining CA:
Boomers buy cheap house in 70s for $37k and sell it for land value of $1.1m in 2014.
Boomers are now 55+ and maintain same tax basis of old home paying nothing in property taxes even if they buy a new $1.1m property in LA due to prop 60/90.
Developer buys the land and draw up plans for ugly modern home that doesn’t fit in with neighborhood and has too much square footage for the lot size. Local laws do not contain restrictions on such development.
Developer decides to sell plans to another developer shortly after for a gain of $200k for easy quick cash.
Second developer builds McMansion and now lists it for $2m more.
Chinese buyer will swoop in and purchase home and never live in it.
Meanwhile neighborhood public schools get worse and worse.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35020264)
|
 |
Date: December 27th, 2017 11:40 PM Author: Sable national
Libs don’t understand that many people are waking up to what has happened here and are making preventing this disease from spreading a cornerstone of their political beliefs
“The promise of California has soured,” Kesler told me. Anton “doesn’t want California to be the harbinger of what happens to America.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/520683/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35022801) |
Date: December 28th, 2017 1:10 PM Author: Aggressive theatre
The 90s in California were 180
Now it's a shithole
All you out of staters need to move the fuck out
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3841631&forum_id=2#35026167) |
|
|