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[perfectchaos007]

Your garbage anecdotal comment had me looking up social responses to the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. An actual scientific study done on the response at that. As I thought, the same altruistic response was given then as it is now by the residents of Houston.

http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=fmhi_pub

To be clear, I'm not basing my opinion off of disaster response. This was purely based off my experience living and working in California (so.Cal to be more specific). for several months. Of course my experience is anecdotal, but I'm not bullshitting what I experienced. This was a marketing role I had in LA so I had to deal with lots of people on a regular basis so I cant even dismiss it as "Oh that was just one company and a few people that I had a bad experience with". It was a lot of different people collectively that led me to concluding working with Texans is a way more pleasant experience than it is in LA. If you had a different experience thats great enjoy working in LaLa land.

 

[SaviourMK2]

Sounds like the snowflake needs a safe space. Texas is just cornering itself to implode.

 

[MogCakes]

Well...Texas is huge. All of the major cities in the state are blue (except north Dallas where all the insanely rich people live. It looks and feels completely different from the rest of the metroplex). It's the rest of the state, which is massive by the way, that is red and the reason the state always goes red in elections, in part thanks to the weight of land ownership.

As for hospitality and community/niceness, all-<people-from-insert-state-here>-are-a-certain-way, there are -plenty- of people who have settled in from elsewhere in the country over just the past five years, and none of them were raised on the idea of southern hospitality. You'll find the cities to be much like other cities in the nation - people of all types, who can't be painted with a broad brush. The idea of the 'other' in state vs state, city vs city chest-beating and stereotyping is outdated and obsolete in the age of the internet and decades of easy transportation. Almost every major city in the country is blue at this point.

But I get that Californians just gotta have their digs.

 

[aeolist]

Well...Texas is huge. All of the major cities in the state are blue (except north Dallas where all the insanely rich people live. It looks and feels completely different from the rest of the metroplex). It's the rest of the state, which is massive by the way, that is red and the reason the state always goes red in elections, in part thanks to the weight of land ownership.

As for hospitality and community/niceness, all-<people-from-insert-state-here>-are-a-certain-way, there are -plenty- of people who have settled in from elsewhere in the country over just the past five years, and none of them were raised on the idea of southern hospitality. You'll find the cities to be much like other cities in the nation - people of all types, who can't be painted with a broad brush. The idea of the 'other' in state vs state, city vs city chest-beating and stereotyping is outdated and obsolete in the age of the internet and decades of easy transportation. Almost every major city in the country is blue at this point.

But I get that Californians just gotta have their digs.

there's also the highland park/uni park bubble that donates more to republican campaigns per capita than any other municipality in the country

 

[Kinvara]

Many liberals - particularly minorities - abhor living in conservative communities because they don't like living among people who think of them as subhuman. They segregate out of self-defense.

Yeah, I've been living in red states for most of my life and this is the reason I'm moving soon (probably to CA).

There are assholes everywhere but being a minority in a conservative community is soul-crushing and I can't take it anymore.

 

[MogCakes]

there's also the highland park/uni park bubble that donates more to republican campaigns per capita than any other municipality in the country

Yeah, that is by far the most bourgeoisie part of the state.

 

[NervousXtian]

Imagine how miserable you must be to be consumed by your politics so much that you are moving your entire family because of it.

Dude doesn't need to move, he needs a therapist.

 

[zer0das]

Imagine how miserable you must be to be consumed by your politics so much that you are moving your entire family because of it.

Dude doesn't need to move, he needs a therapist.

I don't know, living in rural America with all of its Confederate flags and certain groups of people who treat you like garbage because you're educated or your skin color is different can get pretty annoying. I guess that's not really politics so much as being a decent human being, but ehh....

 

[KernelPanic]

certain groups of people who treat you like garbage because you're educated.

I'm not from the US but Is this true?

Being educated usually gets you respect or envy in most places.

 

[zer0das]

I'm not from the US but Is this true?

Being educated usually gets you respect or envy in most places.

They're a minority (at least the people who will harass you about it openly), but yes. These people exist.

 

[zashga]

Uprooting your family and moving cross country just to live in a political bubble strikes me as remarkably pathetic.

Full disclosure: I moved from Texas to California for work.

 

[TheOctodad]

I'm not from the US but Is this true?

Being educated usually gets you respect or envy in most places.

Yes. There a very strong anti-intellectualism in the USA in some circles. Hence the rejection of global warming.

 

[BolognaOni]

Boggles my mind that anyone would be interested in working in a state with at-will employment and enforceable non-compete agreements, but maybe you work in different fields where you can't ever see yourself joining a competitor for any reason at all?

 

[Stumpokapow]

i know from personal experience that there are a lot of californians moving to north dallas suburbs but that's mostly because of companies relocating there with a smattering of people fleeing insane housing costs

California has the largest population and Texas the largest non-Alaska land mass. If literally random people around the country chose to move to a random out of state place, the modal case would be Californians moving to Texas, even if the rate was no different than any state moving to any state. LOL.

So that would have to be the barrier the article would have to overcome to back up the assertion that Texas Becoming A Magnet for Californians, the easiest claim of the three it advances without evidence.

 

[adamsappel]

To be clear, I'm not basing my opinion off of disaster response. This was purely based off my experience living and working in California (so.Cal to be more specific). for several months. Of course my experience is anecdotal, but I'm not bullshitting what I experienced. This was a marketing role I had in LA so I had to deal with lots of people on a regular basis so I cant even dismiss it as "Oh that was just one company and a few people that I had a bad experience with". It was a lot of different people collectively that led me to concluding working with Texans is a way more pleasant experience than it is in LA. If you had a different experience thats great enjoy working in LaLa land.

Wait, you're judging Californians to be fake and self-centered because of your experience in Los Angeles?

 

[TarNaru33]

Wait, you're judging Californians to be fake and self-centered because of your experience in Los Angeles?

Sounds like it.

 

[Zoe]

Wait, you're judging Californians to be fake and self-centered because of your experience in Los Angeles?

People judge Texans on dumb racist hicks living BFE all the time.

 

[One Eyed Willy]

I know 4 families who up and left CA for Texas over the last 5 or so years. This is a very real thing and people are doing it with smiles on their faces.

 

[LosDaddie]

Imagine how miserable you must be to be consumed by your politics so much that you are moving your entire family because of it.

Dude doesn't need to move, he needs a therapist.

I'd imagine it's only a very small percentage of families who moved based purely on politics.

Most families move for work.