The green green grass of home

**stryder** · Jul 20, 2024 04:34 PM

A hypothetical for you...

If you were given the option to move anywhere in the world, Where would you pick? and more importantly why?

I ask as it's one of those dilemas that I don't really have an answer for.

**Syne** · Jul 20, 2024 06:40 PM

If given the option, I'd stay put. For better of worse, I live in the freest country on the planet, in one of the freest states in the country.

**confused2** · Jul 20, 2024 07:30 PM

I like living where I am. By the sea and about as far south as you can get and still be in England. I like the fact that the folks around me are of the same culture .. beer, sunshine and working hard enough to keep things together but no more. I'm not a fan of multiculturalism .. my rich friend came to to England because he wanted to be English .. that's fine.

**Yazata** · (This post was last modified: Jul 20, 2024 08:29 PM by Yazata.)

(Jul 20, 2024 04:34 PM)stryder Wrote: A hypothetical for you...

If you were given the option to move anywhere in the world, Where would you pick? and more importantly why?

I ask as it's one of those dilemas that I don't really have an answer for.

I like the United States, so I'd stay in this country. There are other countries that I do like a lot, but none more than my own.

And I think that I would stay here in northern California. (Quiet down Syne!)

I don't like the political direction that it's taken in the last 20 years, but I own a home here and my family is here. The climate and scenery are excellent. The quality of life is definitely going down, but is still very good in my particular Silicon Valley suburb (one of the nicer ones). The cost of living is a killer, though.

If I left California, I might go to New Mexico (I own some property there). Or maybe I'd follow the path blazed by Elon and head to Texas. Starbase is there and I have friends in Texas. (I've actually thought about doing that.)

**C C** · (This post was last modified: Jul 20, 2024 09:09 PM by C C.)

Even with people from paradise moving here to escape it, it should still be some time (after we're dead, at least) before those Caucasian elite cause enough policy-associated deterioration that it might be better or the same to go there. Usually they get culturally assimilated, anyway -- this seems to be a Borg dedicated zone. When you drive by a Vietnamese-descended couple's home and see a "Vote For Trump" sign in their front yard, that realization fully hits you.

**Syne** · Jul 20, 2024 09:54 PM

(Jul 20, 2024 08:27 PM)Yazata Wrote: And I think that I would stay here in northern California. (Quiet down Syne!)

Hey, if you have enough reasons to override the downside, by all means. Family and property are big considerations. Even if housing is a seller's market right now, that also means it's not a buyers market.

Quote:If I left California, I might go to New Mexico (I own some property there).

Ouch. Owning property in two leftist strongholds. I'm sure they're both beautiful though.

**Yazata** · (This post was last modified: Jul 21, 2024 04:35 AM by Yazata.)

(Jul 20, 2024 09:54 PM)Syne Wrote: Ouch. Owning property in two leftist strongholds. I'm sure they're both beautiful though.

New Mexico is more purple than people might think. My property is in a county where Trump got 45.7% in 2020. He might win there this year. It has a large Hispanic population (not all recent immigrants either, but many families that have lived there since the Mexican war and the 19th century cowboy days) who are socially conservative Catholics and thoroughly turned off by things like the transgender agenda that play so well in places like Los Angeles. They have historically been democrat voters, but the new populist Republicanism is winning some unknown number of them over, perhaps enough to flip the county. The same thing is happening statewide, which is putting New Mexico in play.

The most recent statewide polling has Biden 44.5%, Trump 40.5%, RFK Jr 8% and West 3% I believe these numbers might be stale, before recent events. The most recent momentum seems to be towards Trump and that 4% gap might be continuing to close. (In the 2020 election, Biden won by 10.79%)

NM is a swing-state this cycle. It's a state that the democrats didn't think they needed to defend, and now their deeply divided party might have a hard time organizing the campaign they need.

**Syne** · Jul 21, 2024 04:41 AM

Well, I hope that continues to pan out in NM.

**Secular Sanity** · Jul 21, 2024 05:01 PM

(Jul 20, 2024 04:34 PM)stryder Wrote: A hypothetical for you...

If you were given the option to move anywhere in the world, Where would you pick? and more importantly why?

I ask as it's one of those dilemas that I don't really have an answer for.

I’m like C2, I need to be near the sea and I don't like big cities. I need mountains and trees, but I don’t want them to be on fire. My fire insurance has skyrocketed to $12,000, which is going to crush the housing market.

Yeah, it’s quite a dilemma.

What are some of the places you’ve considered?