Folks continue fleeing blue CA for red TX

My wife and I had always planned to get out of CA someday, but when Jerry Brown got elected governor in the last election we said, "That's it! Time to leave...", and we did. Moved to Albuquerque, NM because my wife's family (parents and 7 sibs) and my youngest son live here, whereas I have no close family any more in my home state of Texas. Our first big savings was on homeowner's insurance (about 1 grand cheaper than CA, and that is not counting the earthquake policy we had in CA). Interestingly, out of the first 8 people I met on my block, 7 were Californians who had relocated within the past 2 years.
 
Part of the business climate is the lack of taxes; we paid for education for years with oil revenues. Take a look at UT's budget fifty years ago and the contribution from oil revenues and then compare that to tuition rates. Compare that to today.

As the oil money has got divided up among the new colleges and enrollment rates have grown, higher education has gotten stretched. We could be cherry picking faculty from the great California schools but that is not happening to the extent it should.

We don't tax much, which is fine by me but the stress it puts on primary and secondary education is considerable. Money is not everything and cruddy parenting is a lot of it but money can shoo away a lot of bad problems.

I know a fair number of teachers and I have never met one who didn't think that separating kids by intelligence levels and then teaching them at their own rate was not a good practice. Except for one principal.
 
North Dakota has the best economy in the land solely due to Bakken Shale drilling. So, some of you liberals highly critical of the oil and gas industry - and one self-professed independent critical of the "100-year old technology" that is oil drilling - ought to take note of why ND is performing so well.
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Everything that Mr. Deez wrote about his wife is true for me and every teacher that I know.

We started a merit pay type program at my school which means more money for teachers. It worked out to about $7.69 an hour for the time I put in. I would gladly give up that pay to not have my time wasted. Also, the school's test scores went down......go figure.
 
WE spend nearly 60% of our budget on public education and somehow that is no enough?

The Ed budget for 12-13 is 9% HIGHER than 10-11 and that is not enough?

If there were a way to get more responsible spending out of the school districts there would be enough money.

What all the money is the world can't do is get the parents to be responsible for their own children's education.
the only semi positive thing about Fornians moving here is most of them likely actually contribute to the revenue and do not drain the entitlement programs.
 
Will, I think it was Pete Wilson...wait a minute - no, it was Deukmejian, who was followed by Wilson about 2 years after we moved to CA. Man, I miss the SoCal winters already, but I think the state is going to be in a world of hurt before too long. Sorry we never got together to watch a Horn BKB game over some beers, but I'll try to make it back out there for a FB game whenever (hopefully soon) the Horns are contending for the NC or if we're playing a quality opponent in the LA area or San Diego.
 
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