California (again, I mean)

Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I don’t think anyone is denying that. Gen X and Boomers will represent the generations that got theirs and pulled the ladder up (zoning laws, squashed new construction, made it tougher to build, etc).
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I'm sorry but if you're under the impression that I was writing for validation, you're sorely mistaken! LOL
 
DE727UPS said:
I rented in El Segundo a couple times. It's a cool little town. Sometimes hard to imagine you're surrounded by a metropolis on three sides. The beach is there but you're not ON the beach, so a tad less expensive than the beach cities. Of all the places you mention, I think Irvine would be the least expensive but farthest drive. I stayed at a hotel in Lake Forest recently when I screwed up my RV park reservations. It was nice and noticed condos were affordable. I just sold my condo in San Clemente that was a four minute walk to the beach for probably well less than it would go for in El Segundo. But LAX is a good hour drive when traffic isn't bad.
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Why did you sell your condo?
 
Uh update to the update, not actually California after all, though I'll still be based in LAX and spending more time down that way.

We were considering a short stay in Southern California but realized it would just add two more moves to our actual plan/goal of living on Bainbridge Island. A week ago today we were on our way back to Seattle proper after seeing a townhouse that we didn't like...but we also saw one we really liked and decided that was that. The application and lease were completed yesterday and I live in Washington come October 1. I've still got to commute but I'm over the moon excited about where we're going to live. Our place is a VERY short walk to the ferry.

Yes I still have to commute. I'm frozen in the ER category until the earlier of upgrade or October of next year (or if the Company decides it's convenient for me to go to another airplane in Seattle; always possible). I'm good with it.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Uh update to the update, not actually California after all, though I'll still be based in LAX and spending more time down that way.

We were considering a short stay in Southern California but realized it would just add two more moves to our actual plan/goal of living on Bainbridge Island. A week ago today we were on our way back to Seattle proper after seeing a townhouse that we didn't like...but we also saw one we really liked and decided that was that. The application and lease were completed yesterday and I live in Washington come October 1. I've still got to commute but I'm over the moon excited about where we're going to live. Our place is a VERY short walk to the ferry.

Yes I still have to commute. I'm frozen in the ER category until the earlier of upgrade or October of next year (or if the Company decides it's convenient for me to go to another airplane in Seattle; always possible). I'm good with it.
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No ER catagories in, in SEA?
 
roundout said:
People's brains melting
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bike21 said:
It was great while it lasted. I got to it at the tail end of the 'good flying' with Narita and doing all the inter Asia flying and of course lots of Hawaii. Once we became the State Bird of Florida post COVID doing MCO turns I had to bail.
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That’s always so disappointing. I like flying big planes to cool places, so if I’m connecting in ATL and see a wide body I’ll pull up flight radar and see where it’s going. I don’t do that for 767s anymore, because I know
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
They flee those states, yet continue voting the same way - completely forgetting why they had flee those states in the first place.
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I feel that you may not realize that these people aren't necessarily "fleeing" due to the politics but rather due to general capitalism causing people to get priced out of their homes or making living expenses prohibitively expensive. Taxes are only part of the overall story.

Of course there is also the crowd that goes where the jobs are. Tech companies for example opened up offices and such in Austin, TX. That of course caused a ton of CA people to move to Austin that likely wouldn't have moved there otherwise.
 
Maurus said:
I feel that you may not realize that these people aren't necessarily "fleeing" due to the politics but rather due to general capitalism causing people to get priced out of their homes or making living expenses prohibitively expensive. Taxes are only part of the overall story.
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I left the Bay Area because, some personal reasons aside, I couldn't get a Captain job there and that was what was 'required' for me to advance my career and everyone I talked to who commuted to CRJ RES was miserable (yes, I know that was probably 'pretty dumb' considering everything else but these were the days when you didn't turn that down).

Not magic. Would go back except United never called.
 
Maurus said:
I feel that you may not realize that these people aren't necessarily "fleeing" due to the politics but rather due to general capitalism causing people to get priced out of their homes or making living expenses prohibitively expensive. Taxes are only part of the overall story.

Of course there is also the crowd that goes where the jobs are. Tech companies for example opened up offices and such in Austin, TX. That of course caused a ton of CA people to move to Austin that likely wouldn't have moved there otherwise.
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I’ve been murdered 17 times and buried in human • cycling and taking public transit around the Bay. Also the weather is terrible especially in the summer. No one should live there, in fact if enough people could leave that I could afford an actual apartment there it would be spectacular.
 
bike21 said:
It was great while it lasted. I got to it at the tail end of the 'good flying' with Narita and doing all the inter Asia flying and of course lots of Hawaii. Once we became the State Bird of Florida post COVID doing MCO turns I had to bail.
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Screaming_Emu said:
That’s always so disappointing. I like flying big planes to cool places, so if I’m connecting in ATL and see a wide body I’ll pull up flight radar and see where it’s going. I don’t do that for 767s anymore, because I know
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Shamelessly stolen but very relevant
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