I've heard personal stories along this line. One friend who rents near San Francisco is moving to Tennessee, where he can buy a giant house, work from home, and send the kids to a rational school.
San Francisco downtown office occupancy is about 10%.
If only every Republican would leave the "coastal elite" states they hate so much forever and never come back...
Wealthy right-wingers have been retiring early to states like TN and KY for decades, man. You can find plenty of small towns there with streets of giant homes with two boats in the driveway.
All the shops on the main street are still boarded up and manufacturing is still in China.
Instead of paying taxes they send a portion of the money they save to Mitch McConnell et al to keep repeating "Da libwulz did it..."
You had me until you mentioned schools with rational educations. LOL!!!
Is your friend moving anywhere near Dayton? Or perhaps Paducah?
Yeah, all the greats got their education in Tennessee.
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Well, here in Tulsa, Oklahoma you can get a bonus for moving in and working from home. There have been a bunch of people who have done it. A lot of them from the bay area.
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That site is a rival to Infowars and Russia Today in its loose relationship with anything resembling facts. It might be right here, of course, but it would be by accident rather than design (kind of how John says his best designs come about).
What's irrational about schools refusing to teach evolution and insisting that climate change can't be real because the Bible doesn't mention it? Remember you are talking to someone who doesn't understand the difference between global climate and the weather outside his door this afternoon, and who thinks DNA intelligently designed itself with the long-term plan of making his favourite dinner.
They have schools in Tennessee?
The house may be "giant" but it's most likely cheaply and poorly built trash construction that will start falling apart in five years.
Occupancy can mean a lot of things. Are you saying only 10% of the available office space in SF is being rented? The end is near for that boom town.
Occupancy is still 80% to 90%. Usage is 10% to 20%. However, many construction sites are still building, hopes for the future.
That, by your reasoning, makes the National Association of Realtors a pack of liars, because Brietbart references them in that article. All those quoted statistics must be Russian lies.
You don't need to read or even think, much less discuss ideas. All you need to do is see the url and scoff. Don't worry, that's normal.
Designs require hard theory and brutal discipline. Ideas are usually accidental.
They are over the top, but they mentioned policing microagressions and leveling grades and discipline on a racial basis. Their two little girls are smart and tough. Both parents emigrated from europe as adults.
I quit donating to my high school when I they told me that they officially "call out microagressions" and had a bunch of racial justice police on the paid staff. Not with my money.
Am I now talking to someone who fully understands climate dynamics? How many years do we have left until the climate kills us all?
What is the origin of life? Happily mating lumps of clay in a nice rich primordial broth?
The trend is that, if you work remotely, you can pick a physically pleasing and affordable place where your kids can run around outside without stepping on used needles. All you need is a good internet connection.
This sort of had to happen, and the virus shook up a lot of static friction in the system.
Things do change.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc The best designs are necessarily accidental.
That's what my friend says about many others that he knows; they are leaving California. He's a senior software manager for a cubesat company, and his staff is already distributed all over the world.
But as I pointed out, the skiing is terrible in Tennessee. It took me some time to teach him how to spin.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc The best designs are necessarily accidental.
They have National Labs. It's not all Beverly Hillbillies.
I guess ignorance, stereotyping, snobbery, and contempt are pretty universal.
The three highest ranking high schools in the USA are in Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. I went to one of the first magnet schools in the USA, in Louisiana. It's now ranked #71.
Things will certainy calm down, and maybe get more affordable. If the pols don't increase taxes to make up for the wealthy people and companies leaving, which they probably will. That is the path to runaway ruin.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc The best designs are necessarily accidental.
ORNL? Give me a break! The best thing about that place is that it's there and not anywhere else.
It's just like anywhere else as far as people go. .
Gawd- you can't be serious. And just exactly whose ranking is that?
Right- they obligate themselves to so many giveaways that when a downturn hits, it really hits. And they have a head start on this because it's their excessive regulation and taxation that's causing the exodus to begin with.
Cheap construction for retirees who want to live Trump-expensive on a beer budget, lots of neighborhoods like this in small towns in TN and KY:
These are the fabulous retiree McMansions of Kevil, KY:
The new wealth coming in and supply-side economics have done great at stimulating local business. Main Street:
Every tech exec in the Bay Area could move there n these towns would still be broke
Yeah coming from the Bay and sending your kid to school in a town in TN because the school department is more "rational" seems like a pretty good idea to some I expect...but wait until Dad meets the PTA.
I expect the girls will be alright, lol
Big City Tech Man thinks he's going to move to the country and throw his weight around like he some kind of big shot there.
Big City Tech Man in for a rude awakening...
Weird thing about Americans. The more you try to "assimilate" to an American sub-culture you don't come from, the less its members tend to respect you. Some kind of uncanny-valley effect I think.
Google it. It's not difficult.
Once you get your kid into one of those top three overwhelmingly white schools by lottery/kiss the right asses/grease the right palms they're in they can do no wrong. Evey kid is above average by fiat.
The hilarious thing is that academic dishonesty on this scale isn't even an automatic expulsion from West Point, you go to a "rehabilitation program" where they tell you not to do that lol.
Cheating is rampant at all these places but every once in a while they have to make a to-do about it so the plebs don't see what the hustle is.
Make an actual merit-based school with serious punishments for their kids and those Virginia suburbanites would be running for their lives.
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