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Miss-Bomarc posted:If you want to travel from a point in the tourist district of San Francisco to a point on the outskirts of LA, and you want to do something that takes twice as long as flying, then high-speed rail is a good choice for you. Twice as long is what, two hours? I'll trade that for much cheaper fare and no airport security lines.
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Thanatosian posted:Technically speaking, non-hispanic whites are already a minority in CA. But so is everybody else. So's Texas actually (and actually TexMex is a lot spicier than normal mexican food).
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nm posted:Depends. We have a somewhat higher than average income tax, but property taxes are probably the lowest in the nation unless some state doesn't have property tax. Prop 13 especially insures that anyone (or their family) who bought property in the 80s or earlier, pays almost no property tax. This applies to companies too. Property values can only be re-assessed up if the property is sold to a non family member. The best part is that if you sell a business that owns property, that property stays assessed at old values. Companies create corporations for the sole purpose of holding a single large property, then instead of selling the property they sell the holding company. You also have a surprisingly high sales tax rate (7.5% statewide, with local districts able to add up to 1% extra; for reference here in Texas the rate is 8.25%). e: Apparently the "official" general sales tax in Texas is only 6.25% and local districts can just add up to 2%.
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withak posted:Prop 13 is one of the reasons that the price spikes so much with gentrification. If you take that factor out then gentrification might not be accompanied by as steep of a rise in prices. Above a certain level it doesn't really matter how high they spike, at least for people already living in the area. If the gentrification still caused folks who had lived there for a few generations to move out due to prices, then it's a net positive (or at least no difference) to keep prop 13.
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Xaris posted:
SF is actually three times as dense as London or Rome and almost twice as dense as Berlin. It's still a pretty compact place.
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Illumination posted:You joke, but yes, the Inland Empire is surrounded by the Santa Ana and the Santa Rosa mountains and they do a fantastic job of keeping in all the pollution produced by the LA basin. And then you get to the temperature Inversions and literally die from smog.
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Geared Hub posted:One of my former co-workers left the film industry and started growing strawberries over in east San Bernardino county. He family business [organic self pick berries] goes through about 30-40,000 gallons of water per month. I think I remember seeing a report about Nevada and how while Las Vegas uses a lot of water something like 75% of the water drain of the area was due to agriculture.
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Aug 23, 2013 18:32
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etalian posted:Back to California best state: $10/hour is actually right about the inflation adjusted peak of the 60s so that's pretty big.
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I wonder if this would effect Help Desk positions and the like in the area though, if those haven't already been outsourced to India (there were threads in SH/SC about how people were making $10/hour in IT positions although probably not in California specifically). Edit: Basically, I'm wondering how many positions are going to be "pushed up" (between the current minimum wage and $10/hour).
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Miss-Bomarc posted:I remember when McJobs were a bad thing, when they were proof that Republican idiocy had permanently damaged the economic makeup of America, when it was horrific to think that someone would have a multi-year full-time career as a fast-food worker. They seem to be the only potential source of Unionization (and there is absolutely zero way they are ever being outsourced) these days so work with what you've got.
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Sep 14, 2013 13:41
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OneEightHundred posted:Saying we need lovely jobs so we can have unions to fight back against lovely jobs is a bit circular. The only problem with lovely jobs in general is that they generally don't compensate you well enough.
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Sep 14, 2013 18:54
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Hog Obituary posted:If you think your local taqueria isn't using the cheapest stuff available to it, you're in for a surprise. I'm not seeing why it would be any better for you than Chipotle. Yeah, there's a reason why food trucks in New York were bitching because they had to do things like "have actual hygiene standards".
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Sep 25, 2013 21:38
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Seoinin posted:On the other hand, didn't the state come pretty close to abolishing the death penalty last year? I seem to recall it losing by a narrow margin in LA at least. "Soft on crime" doesn't pull the kind of support it used to in metro areas. apparently 13 people have been executed since it was reinstated in 1978. That's low enough that the prison unions shouldn't care (and indeed you'd think they would support "lock them up for eternity").
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Oct 8, 2013 23:42
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enraged_camel posted:Hey, I might move there next year and I hear really good things about it. What's wrong with it? Houston has a lot of sprawl but otherwise it's mostly fine. Dallas has basically the same issues but is also full of shithead conservatives. (San Antonio is probably the best large city in the Central-Texas area)
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Nov 23, 2013 10:43
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Family Values posted:
I think there will be less of this if only because there are constraints now that didn't exist 30 years ago (most notably fuel prices).
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comes along bort posted:30 years ago (31 technically) the nationwide annual average peaked at 2.68/gallon accounting for inflation, and it didn't get that high again until 7 years ago And in 2 years it slid to $2 and the next year it went below $2 and it stayed that way until 2001 or so. Gas prices are already a dollar/gallon above that momentary peak and I'll be confident in saying they're probably never getting as low as they were in 82 ever again.
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FRINGE posted:"Stay ethical OC!"
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Papercut posted:If you want to go to Vegas anyway, then I would highly recommend Zion over the Grand Canyon. It has way more to do, is much closer, and in my opinion is more scenic. The north rim of the Grand Canyon is just kind of boring, especially if you only have enough time to do hikes along the rim. You could also just drive straight from SD to Zion, it's about 500 miles. Yeah, having been to both a year or two ago Zion is much more interesting than the north rim. The Grand Canyon will make you feel tiny and insignificant, but other than that there's not much to do unless you plan on going into the canyon (which is a lot more planning).
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Doctor Malaver posted:
Yes, buy some Tracfones for about $40 total and the coverage map looks like this: 
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Blinkman987 posted:I never thought I'd be hoping for a tropical storm to hit the west coast, but here we are. We had something similar happen in Texas a while ago. If it's like what happened then the storm will totally evaporate and just leave everything very humid. It won't though because COLD WATER CURRENTS YEAH!
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Leperflesh posted:
I should try salt in mine, but I normally do avocado, cilantro, tomatillo, and lime juice.
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