Austin is not a global city at all. Not ranked.
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Dying elderly boasting that his accomplishment is more than an enterprising youth.
Very little startup funding in Austin too. So the youth in Austin arenât that enterprising either.
Garbage town.
California is the most popular state for Americans looking to move, with 27% of respondents choosing it as one of their top five dream states. The most popular city? Los Angeles, with 19% of votes out of the 50 most-populous metros in the country.
At least this week Austin has better weather than LA⊠low 80sâŠ
LA is in the 50s⊠been the coldest wettest winter in my memory.
Supposedly 11 at Heavenly⊠blizzard conditions. Looking forward to shoveling 2â of snow til Monday⊠Coldest winter since 1952⊠Global warming sounds good to me.
This is why we live in California
Lori lightfoot got defeated in Chicago due to crime.
NYC mayor(who was elected on the basis of anti crime message) says Lori Lightfootâs loss in Chicago is âwarning sign for the countryâ
However
When I compare crimes SF seems to outstrip NYC and property crimes outstrip Chicago by a factor of 2, while violent crime is @80% of Chicago.
| San Francisco, CA | New York, NY | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 39.6 | 28.2 | 22.7 |
| Property Crime | 79.2 | 24.9 | 35.4 |
| San Francisco, CA | Chicago, IL | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 39.6 | 49.9 | 22.7 |
| Property Crime | 79.2 | 46.3 | 35.4 |
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.
What kind of deluded idealist utopian nincompoops vote for these kinds of people in SF and now rest of Bay Area?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/politics/eric-adams-lori-lightfoot-crime-cnntv/index.html
Remember when California had a budget surplus and used it to create more entitlement programs? Now the state is going to have a massive deficit.
This is in recent news. The carveout already exists for heinous crimes and to add drug dealing to the list seems very reasonable, but the kind of pushback seems blind that basically there canât be any carveout regardless of whether it makes sense or not because itâs a threat of erosion. This is very similar to gun control. So we shouldnât expect any resolution to the drug problem in SF just as there wonât be any solution to gun proliferation.
Also in the news was that the lawyer involved in the dog attack 20 years ago in SF was up for parole. So she spent 20 years behind bars for her role in the dog attack. What she did did deserve the sentence she received in my view, but I canât help wondering that if it were to happen today will she still received such a sentence? Overall the trend is law becomes loose and breaking the law carries less consequences, so if she were to be sentenced today would it qualify as a lifestyle crime or some other no-biggie category? She didnât intend to let the dogs kill her after all.
Look like I will have bonanza tax reduction 
The problem with these government entitlement programs are they are permanent, i.e. you canât reverse or reduce them when circumstances in terms of revenue or income turn for worse for the state. Hence, CA govt has to feed it money from âsomewhereâ(aka more taxes) even when they canât afford it.
whereas
Tax cuts are discretionary events, so it stops if economy turns worse.
Exactly. Plus, why are they expanding entitlement programs with unemployment rates so low?
There has to be a reason why people are leaving CA even with low unemployment rates.
Does anyone think 8.25 might a little too excessive for what they went through? No violence or any police brutality, they were handcuffed and sat in the police car for 70 minutes.
Well⊠darn. It took me decades to amass that. Wonder if settlements like that are taxable income? I read somewhere that if the settlement isnât compensation for specific economic damage it may well be taxable.
In any event I take comfort from the near certainty that they will blow all the money within 5 years.