3 hours ago, vikas83 said:

Never been. Haven't heard great things, to be honest. Small town, very hillbilly, etc.

Actually the River Walk is very nice.  It can get super crowded though.  Bunch of guys in $90 polos.

https://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/

It’s a tourist destination though.  Not somewhere you’d actually live.  

On 12/3/2020 at 12:20 PM, bobeph said:

Hell to me would be living in a liberal sheet can like California.

You dont know what you’re talkin bout bo.  Sorry.   

4 hours ago, vikas83 said:

Houston -- awful city that is way too hot and humid, along with the hurricanes. 

Worst part about Houston is the traffic.  But since you live in L.A. I can see why you didn’t mention that...

Just now, Dave Moss said:

Worst part about Houston is the traffic.  But since you live in L.A. I can see why you didn’t mention that...

Working east coast hours has its advantages. 405 is a dream at 6am. 

People been saying everyones gunna leave cali and it never happens.   We keep building more and more housing.  
 

im not holding my breath.  

5 hours ago, 20dawk4life said:

Ever been to San Antonio? I was thinking of visiting next year if Covid is still screwing everything up for international travel. 

Good to visit, lame to live in. Only one major sports team, one minor league baseball team. They just moved the AHL team that was there. Riverwalk is the biggest tourist trap, I'm not a history buff so the Alamo was extremely underwhelming. 

In a city full of Mexican food my favorite restaurant was a Chinese place by Ingram Park mall. It was fantastic. I lived there for 3 years and I don't want to go back. It is really cheap though 

On 12/3/2020 at 2:59 PM, vikas83 said:

We talked about moving from LA to Texas of Florida for tax reasons last year, and we keep threatening to revisit it. We won't move to Florida because, well, it's Florida; I'd rather not have some dude on krokodil and bath salts try to murder me and eat my nose. Texas is just too hot and well...Texas. If we ever decide to move the firm out of LA, we'd likely leave the US altogether, go to a place like Nevis where you can buy a passport. 

Despite the taxes and the people, the problem is simple -- Southern California is the best place to live in the country (weather, landscape, etc.). And LA is a place where, if you have the money, you can avoid the unpleasant elements. Northern California, and the Bay Area in particular, is awful.

Have you considered Tennessee?  It has no state income tax, I'm pretty sure; it has a pro-business climate; and while just as red as Texas of Florida, doesn't have the crazy element like those two states.  The weather is a little more temperate, too, with slightly-less-hot summers, and an actual winter, but not too much of it.

 

One big downside is that you're pretty far away from a beach.  But then again, a place like Austin or Dallas is too.

On 12/4/2020 at 9:05 PM, xzmattzx said:

Have you considered Tennessee?  It has no state income tax, I'm pretty sure; it has a pro-business climate; and while just as red as Texas of Florida, doesn't have the crazy element like those two states.  The weather is a little more temperate, too, with slightly-less-hot summers, and an actual winter, but not too much of it.

 

One big downside is that you're pretty far away from a beach.  But then again, a place like Austin or Dallas is too.

 

I like where I am at (Vancouver, WA).  No income tax and a 10 minute drive across the border for no sales tax.  90 miles from the shore about the same to the mountains and about 20 minutes to be in the Columbia River Gorge.

We keep talking about moving, but we never do.  Not sure where I would even want to go.  She likes the heat and mentions Arizona, but no fing way I'm living there in the summer.  Maybe we'll buy a place to go to for the winter.

 

 

 

On 12/3/2020 at 3:21 PM, vikas83 said:

Orlando, Miami, Palm Beach. Didn't enjoy any of them. Would rank them:

1. Palm Beach

2. Miami

3. Orlando

I lived in Naples... if I were to go back I'd probably stick to the Gulf Coast side.  I'd like to retire on Captiva Island (specifically North Captiva only accessible by boat).  I love Miami Beach to visit, but not to live. 

Austin is great minus the entire CA population moving here.

On 12/3/2020 at 12:21 PM, DaEagles4Life said:

The next 10 years will be interesting to see if California slowly shifts back center, or goes far left and is it inevitable that TX is soon blue. 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the California firm that literally kickstarted Silicon Valley in a garage in 1939, is moving to Texas. The low-key announcement was made via an SEC filing on Dec. 1.

If California’s anti-jobs policies, its high taxes, capricious regulatory enforcement, and blackout-inducing energy policy can chase out the company that launched Silicon Valley, is any business, large or small, immune from pressure to move? Unless a company must directly serve the California market, such as a fast-food chain, the answer is a resounding "No!”

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hewlett-packard-california-texas-chuck-devore

Just to inject some reality into this...

HP has been in Houston forever. HPE is just a division of HP. Also, businesses moving campuses to TX isn't some "California is EVIL" thing. Everyone is doing it. And they do it because of how appraisal districts in TX work. They are 100% fully autonomous of the state and can/will devalue property regularly in order to lure businesses to their districts. And they do so free from any and all oversight as per TX law.

On 12/4/2020 at 1:29 PM, vikas83 said:

Never been. Haven't heard great things, to be honest. Small town, very hillbilly, etc.

The only reason to visit San Antonio is the Riverwalk... which is actually quite nice.

Just now, mayanh8 said:

The only reason to visit San Antonio is the Riverwalk... which is actually quite nice.

That's the only reason I want to go. 

On 12/3/2020 at 8:27 PM, Dave Moss said:

I only lived in Texas for four years, so I’m not sure if you could call me a former Texan.  But I don’t miss it.  Not much anyway.  
 

I did watch a couple Eagles games with mayanh8 while I lived there.  back when people still went to sports bars to watch football games...

Counting the days until we leave.

It's either going to be NC or FL.

On 12/4/2020 at 12:54 PM, vikas83 said:

3. Houston -- awful city that is way too hot and humid, along with the hurricanes. 

Also, the 100 year floods happening every 5 years gets old pretty fast. You'd almost think that the entire city was built on a sinking swamp or something crazy like that...

7 hours ago, eaglesflyers#1 said:

Austin is great minus the entire CA population moving here.

Most overrated city in the country by a MILE. It's like every hipster d-bag from the Bay Area moved to a place that is hot and has bats.

I was working in Houston a few years back flying in and working there ever other week for nearly a year and a half.  The city is hot as balls in the summer and quite dead as far as a downtown area goes.  We were going to move to The Woodlands, which is a quite nice planned community north of the city.  Really liked the area.  In the end, moving to the Houston area in general was just too much for the wife to take.  Found a new job and haven't looked back.  Also, the gulf waters in that area (Galveston) are nasty as all hell.  NJ beaches and water are a paradise comparatively 

3 hours ago, barho said:

Also, the gulf waters in that area (Galveston) are nasty as all hell.  NJ beaches and water are a paradise comparatively 

The Gulf currents carry the "water" from the Mississippi River west along the coast, which is why the Texas beaches are so nasty.

And I say "water" because the raw sewage coming out of the Mississippi River should be labeled military grade, radioactive waste. And that's what you are swimming in when you're in Galveston.

On 12/4/2020 at 5:54 PM, SNOORDA said:

People been saying everyones gunna leave cali and it never happens.   We keep building more and more housing.  
 

im not holding my breath.  

Poor people keep moving out. Rich people keep moving in. It's evened out so far.

Houston has kolachi and Perry's.

Perry's is a chain. I think you're thinking of Pappas.