Re: How痴 Eddie?
We are definitely getting a lot of Californians moving here. It's good for the economy here, but horrible for how congested our roads have become.
Right now, a good friend, who is easily one of the very top Akita show people in the world, is in Tennessee looking for a place to move to from California. Hearing what they pay to live there in taxes and electracy, in Gilroy, is just crazy!!! Then they have to deal with fires and evacuations the last two years, along with the power being turned off all the time, is even crazier!!! Two other Akita show friends have recently moved to the Nashville area already. I'm starting to wonder what's going in in Tennessee?
Several Specialty Medical Providers such as Anesthesia Machines packed up lock, stock and barrel and are now doing business in Tennessee...
Also have invites and seen pictures... one has a very stately home bought after selling their very nice owner builder home with a few acres here...
Someone asked me why do I think so many entertain moving... several things pop into mind... congestion, rules and regs... owning a little more land that would not be possible here... for business its the high cost of repeated business interruptions... etc. such as the wave of homeowner and business insurance cancellations going out now... I've thought about being self insured for fire and just carrying a liability policy...
I've told your story many times... you bought raw land and made your own reality.
When you are required to get a permit for several hundred dollars to cut down a planted backyard Walnut tree sums it up?
Mayor Sam of San Jose had an op-ed in the SF Chronicle lamenting all the jobs leaving... saying it's policy and litigation... no matter what you want to do seems it takes years to go through the process and expensive when anyone can stop you in your tracks filing a motion...
Here is a quote from today...
"More important, it evades harder questions. Policy choices got us here. We can change those policies — if we’re willing to do something other than blaming tech for them. The tech-resentful might cheer as companies depart, but after a year in which the Bay Area shed 360,000 jobs, we’d do better to focus on solutions"
Freedom and whatever that means...
My brother is in hot water kind of... he built he simple open AG structure and is zoned AG... well the rules changed last year and a permit is needed with engineering... sure he should have checked but neighboring counties have no requirement nor did his prior... its done and now he is already into thousands on reverse engineering and looks like the simple pole structure will need perimeter bond beams, site welding... etc...
He too is thinking his 80 acres tree farm might be better elsewhere...