I have to get out of NY

[appointed]

Living here in Virginia in the good ol south, normally I wouldn't care what idiocy other states are into. The problem is that when people move from places like New York to avoid all the crap, they tend to move to places like here. Now normally this wouldn't be all that bad, but for same strange reason they bring with them the same stupid voting practices that messed their state up in the first place. They move down here and cause the taxes to go up and want all kinds of regulations. Guns scare them so they vote to ban them or get local ordinances to restrict hunting. It is really frustrating. Now I don't mean to paint too broad a brush, there are plenty that come down here and are just thankful to be away from it all, but still. Funny though that I was just complaining about the taxes here. Reckon I ain't got much to complain about compared to y'all.

 

[appointed]

It just really gets me that some people (not all of them out of state neither), move out of the city to the country because they hate the city life. What's the first thing they do? They want the city in the country! They don't want to hear gun shots or loud noises or see hunters in the woods, so they introduce all kinds of ordinances restricting what you can and cannot do. Then they want all the commodities of city life so they demand city water and high ways and all that. Then they sit there and scratch their heads when the taxes are suddenly raised. And don't get me started on the ones that hate rednecks and country folks, yet decide to move to rural communities. I reckon my complaint is why move to a place to only want to change it?

 

[beefeater33]

Good rant appointed--- I grew up on a pig farm in Union county, Ohio. It was very rural then. In comes Honda, and jobs, and people, and traffic etc. Many people moved here, they complain about the smells, the dust, the noise from the farmers, yet they want the country life. Your spot on when you say they wonder why their taxes get raised! DUHH!! On another thread I wrote about the virtues of cellaring tobacco- the stuff ain't never gonna be cheaper- a 8 dollar tin today may be a 25 dollar tin in a few years-- bank on it!!

 

[Perique]

It just really gets me that some people (not all of them out of state neither), move out of the city to the country because they hate the city life. What's the first thing they do? They want the city in the country! They don't want to hear gun shots or loud noises or see hunters in the woods, so they introduce all kinds of ordinances restricting what you can and cannot do. Then they want all the commodities of city life so they demand city water and high ways and all that. Then they sit there and scratch their heads when the taxes are suddenly raised. And don't get me started on the ones that hate rednecks and country folks, yet decide to move to rural communities. I reckon my complaint is why move to a place to only want to change it?

Double-Amen to this. And then they vote with the same patterns as the place they left and ruin it for the rest of us.
Yankees.....

 

[plateauguy]

They want the city in the country!

Amen! Then they think they can do as they please, not respecting other's rights, because they live in the country.
About 5 years ago a housing development when in ajacent to my property. I actually had people standing in my field and tell me they were going to get a horse and pasture it on my property and that I needed to put up a fence. I just smiled and said, "Good, horse meat is really tasty." They told me I was horrible. I asked them to remember that the next time they thought they could use my land. They moved to somewhere "more civilized".

 

[disinformatique]

This is what my friend in UK was taxed on $100 purchase of 625g of tobacco from the US..............wait for it................................$211
Happy Bootlegging !!
Chris The Pipe Monk Christopher :puffpipe:

 

[condorlover1]

@ae1pt. That is a very interesting perspective. NYC, a city I have the misfortune to live in could be made not only profitable but more manageable if a few very simple decisions were made without that very dangerous cabal of politicians in Albany, who operate in response to narrow sectional and vested interests were tossed into Angola Farm Prison in New Orleans! A good beating and a little buggery might focus their minds for a few minutes. You guessed correctly I am a total fan of Huey Long. That being said there are too many cars out there. Just like the one child policy in China we need a one car policy here. Hell we don't even make the things anymore so why worry as we are buying the things from China or the Germans. We need to charge those who are from out of town big $ to drive through the city so we can force them onto mass transit. Keeping transit running creates jobs for the rubes which in the long term is good news and improves the infrastructure. Mayor Bloomberg nearly got that idea through but for the objections on Mr. Silver another professional politico. Don't get me started. I just want a quiet existence in a society that doesn't screw with me and allows me to be armed and moderately taxed.

 

[necron99]

I visited Buffalo one time. Its a pretty town but man how ridiculous wad the cost of everything. I was glad to be on the road back to Tejas.

 

[condorlover1]

Out of curiosity were is Tejas?

 

[condorlover1]

I couldn't agree with you more - here is my favorite American speaking back in 1935 without making this thread political its still relevant :D
http://youtu.be/hphgHi6FD8k

 

[natenice1]

ae1pt you are so on point it is unbelievable! A school board member in Newburgh, NY 80 miles north of NYC, 12 miles north of West Point. Newburgh was a thriving small city five generations here. The river, manufacturing, railroads, Newburgh, Middletown, Port Jervis all small Hudson Valley cities that met the demise of urban renewal in the late 60's and early 70's! So many river cities Poughkeepsie, Peekskill also. The federal planners and their grandiose ideas of parks elevated rails and a Mecca for the arts. Small cities are now drug infested empty seething shells, the small suburbs are feeling it too. And the retired folks "Empty Nesters" are there to bear the burden, mom and dad paid for our education this place is a dump, why should we stay! Mom and dad who bought the tiny house on the GI bill for $7k added on are paying $9K in taxes on a fixed income of $3k per month and no children or grandchildren here. Move where, this is home. Harry Chapin "The Cats in The Cradle." As for education in NYS the Common Core is so flawed and just using students as data, to make the testing companies richer ie. Pearson! And how can you take the SED seriously in NY when the Education Commissioner John King sends his own children to private school! :crazy:

 

[mso489]

You have to be well into the six figures to live comfortably in NYC, it seems to me. But I believe Manhattan has

the longest life expectancy in the U.S. I believe this is because of the social energy of the place. You can see the

whole human drama just going to the drug story. You see this extremely fragile people in their nineties poking

a long through the foot traffic and wonder how they survive, but something made them get that old. Many are

completely alert and make conversation at the drop of hat.

 

[necron99]

Condor, Tejas is Mexican Spanish for Texas. If you ever visit you will see it is quite commonly used. Kind of a homage too our roots if ya will.