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I moved from California to Texas but only stayed 4 months. Texas isn't much cheaper, and everyone was politics-obsessed. (www.businessinsider.com)

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Kellee Speakman, a conservative elementary school teacher, moved from California to Texas in 2022 but returned after four and a half months due to Texas's political obsession and unexpected living costs.
Speakman found Texas to be not much cheaper than California, with high property taxes, expensive services, and lower wages, which contributed to her dissatisfaction.
She returned to California, appreciating its lifestyle, public lands, and better teacher benefits, realizing that her idea of freedom involved peace and everyday adventures rather than political rhetoric.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I guess it depends on exactly what part. I remember Longview being run by their kind of culty church, but I grew up not far from there and was taught just not to fuck with others for how they live their life.

On the other hand, looking back I realize I also knew a bunch of proto-SovCits and absolute nutjobs growing up so I might have missed shit and gotten lucky with the people who were actually the ones teaching me. Not just my parents, but grandparents and friend's parents as well. They all wanted to be left alone and to leave others alone. The nutjobs just happened to be nearby and I was just told not to listen to their nonsense.

Anecdotally, there was this old guy named Wizard who used to be into all the crystal clutching bullshit and had somehow reconciled it with his Jesus bullshit. I remember my grandfather telling me that he was insane but not hurting anyone so just leave him be.