Our pre-med student daughter got offer letter from University of Texas Austin and I just couldn’t do it under the current political mess. She’s in CO which has been a good fit
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Colorado feels like an oasis surrounded by lunacy.
People are fleeing Fl & TX. 2 states collectively accounted 4 >30% of ALL homes 4 sale in the US. Florida had 157,221 active listings—the highest in the country—followed by Texas w/ 102,552.
Repressive state govt & rising insurance are to blame.
I so miss the Austin of my youth and young adulthood. I never would’ve left if I’d been able to find a job that I liked. But I was ruined for the working life by the Marxist philosophy class I took at UT Austin lol!
I tried to get a sportwriting job there for years, but I never succeded. The closest I could get was San Antonio. I saw Roger McGuinn in Austin in the early '90s.
Not trying to pile on, but as a 🇨🇦 it’s horrifying to hear these kinds of stories. I just wouldn’t want to live in a country where most of it is dangerous (get you can’t just leave, but still painful to hear).
I feel much the same. But I also truly want to see how it could be for me, an American, to live in a place free from American pathology. I feel it would give me a fresh insight.
There's no place in America that I can't go.
But I'm an old white male and don't give a shit.
The only thing that would get me is when I open my big old New England mouth.
Then EVERYONE knows:
"Ya'll aren't from around here"
What is worse is that all of it is completely self inflicted! We have such a beautiful land, and it could be a paradise but for our bigotry and misguided individualism.
As an observer I’d say you absolutely nailed it. The racism has always been toxic & has bred so much more destruction; the individualism has ensured that what little civil society there is is frowned upon.
Life shouldn’t be a zero sum game.
Add religious zealotry, misogyny, gun fetish=toxic soup
I really want to leave the US. Been wanting to for a while now. Even though I’m in California, it’s safer than most states but if poop hits the fan I need to vacate immediately. Not taking any chances.
It’s truly failed city planning, or lack of it. I moved there in 2010, and along with real old timers, watched the city get more dangerous. Homeless issue is huge, not hating, but Covid made things worse. Campus is rather nice, tho! I worked on campus.
TX for women? Not good. And in CO she can ski!
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People are fleeing Fl & TX. 2 states collectively accounted 4 >30% of ALL homes 4 sale in the US. Florida had 157,221 active listings—the highest in the country—followed by Texas w/ 102,552.
Repressive state govt & rising insurance are to blame.
But I'm an old white male and don't give a shit.
The only thing that would get me is when I open my big old New England mouth.
Then EVERYONE knows:
"Ya'll aren't from around here"
Life shouldn’t be a zero sum game.
Add religious zealotry, misogyny, gun fetish=toxic soup
TX for women? Not good. And in CO she can ski!